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Adoption in the 1870's
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StillTrying | Report | 12 Mar 2009 16:48 |
Does anyone have any idea how I would find out if an adoption took place? |
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Smiley | Report | 12 Mar 2009 16:50 |
Could it be that she was with her mother on the 1881 but the head wasn't her father, so it says adopted? |
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Potty | Report | 12 Mar 2009 16:51 |
There was no such thing as legal adoption as we recognise it now. It would have been done very informally and no records were kept. Have you found her birth reg? |
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Heather | Report | 12 Mar 2009 17:08 |
This is really difficult. My mother was also adopted before legal adoptions and formal details carried out. I was luck enough to have a paper my mum gave to me which regarding her adoption but it was all done by a solicitor. Strangely enough on my mums birth certificate it has her mothers name down but not her fathers. If you read the document very carefully we have from the solicitor she appears to have been adopted by her natural father who was married to another person at the time, even though she was always referred to as her father's adopted daughter. The other 'thing' I found out is that one of her middle name's was the surname of her real father. Dunno if this helps, I know how hard this is and think I was seriously luckly finding this document which mentions the word adoption about twice! |
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Hayley | Report | 12 Mar 2009 18:13 |
Yes, this is a very difficult area. My grandfather was born 1899-1900 & was informally adopted from very young by his stepfather (whose surname was a very common one!) On all other records after this, including 2 marriages for my grandfather, he gave his stepfather as his father. |
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StillTrying | Report | 13 Mar 2009 15:32 |
I knew it wouldn't be easy, my first thought was that maybe she was their great niece and they adopted her due to her parents not being around. But i've gone through the adopted family to see if there could be a link between them and that's why she was adopted. But there isn't anything. |
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Helen in Kent | Report | 13 Mar 2009 22:46 |
Hi Debbie, I agree that there was no formal adoption then. I have discovered an adoptee in my family - he started off on the 1871 census as a "nurse-child', then 10 yrs later as an "adopted son", then 10 yrs later as "son". |
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