Tom Riddle Jr's name

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 93040

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathy King" <kking0731 at h...> 
wrote:

Kathy:
> There is something that has bugged me since GoF. Who gave Tom 
Riddle his 
> father's name? Voldemort tells Harry in the graveyard that his 
father left 
> his mother before he was born and his mother died giving 
childbirth. 
> Voldemort says " but I vowed to find him
I revenged myself upon 
him, that 
> fool who gave me his name
Tom Riddle
" So did the orphanage tell 
Riddle that 
> his son was born? Did the hospital or the orphanage know that Tom 
Riddle was 
> the father? Did Voldemort's mother actually die or was that 
something that 
> he was told happened at the orphanage? Is Voldemort's mother still 
alive? If 
> she is still alive, who might she be?

Geoff:
There was a fairly lengthy exchange of posts covering Tom in the 
orphanage and associated links some time ago. One point to pick it up 
is at message 83700 (No Sex please, we're British) and follow though 
the various threads. There is more than one thread title IIRC but 
they cover topics such as whether Tom's mother was married to his 
father, orphanage information about names etc.