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Lynne

I have replied to a pm from Lynne.

I have found the 1959 birth entries for both of the twins and they are each registered twice (father's surname and mother's maiden name). The parents then marry later in the same year.

The 1971 re-registrations would normally have led me to believe that they were just re-registered by the parents to make sure the father's surname was their legal name.

However they were apparently not brought up with the mother as it is their younger brother who is looking for them.

I wonder if the parent's split up and they stayed with the father, so he re-registered them to make sure they had his surname. It's a bit of a mystery.

Kath. x

These people are probably still living so send the details by pm if you want to rather than post them on the thread.

Kath. x

You only get one shot at the birth registers, That is when you are born. You can be reregistered if your parents marry, but if you are adopted whether by a step parent or by a new family, you go in the adoption register.

post the details let someone else have a squint.

If the birth is in the mums maiden name it means the mum was unmarried

If she later marries the child's father his name will be added to the birth reg because marrying legitimises the birth

If their record changed in 1971 it would indicate that that's when the parents married have you looked for a marriage

Are you sure they were adopted?

Could the mother have been married at the time but not living with her husband and someone different was the father?

Perhaps if she was on her own she couldn't look after them and then some time later when she could she actually took them back (perhaps with a new husband??)

You wouldn't find a new registration in the ordinary birth index if the children were adopted. It sounds more like a re-registration to me - perhaps after the mother remarried.

Kath. x