Forum: Adoption Pre 1911

Hi all I'm trying to trace my great grandmother, who was adopted, and her biological parents. She was born in 1905 in the Birmingham area. WHat I believe is her correct death certificate states she died in Bromley, Kent in March 1997. My mum and her cousins agree this would be correct. My...

My grandfather, John Nolan was born in October 1906 in Manchester. He was taken as a baby/child to live with a family on Albert Royd Street in Rochdale. In the 1911 census he was listed as John Hopkins! The head of the family in Rochdale and the lady who we were told that took him in was Rachel...

Kathleen was the adopted daughter of James Southwell and his wife Selina and after adoption lived her entire life in Denbighshire. According to the 1911 census, where she appears as Kathleen Amethe (or Ametha), she was born about 1907 in Peterborough, and her death registration (2002) gives her...

The main burden of this query is fostering and adoption in the 19th century, please excuse a couple of “off topic” side issues. According to his Army records, James HAMELTON (my ancestor) was born about 1798 in Tyrwent, Monaghan, Ireland. Unfortunately I cannot find such a place, or any record...

Henry is my maternal grandfather; here is a brief summary: 1901 census shows him as being born in Oxford St London. He was adopted at some point by Herman GROSS, a baker born 1853 in Berlin Germany. Herman was married to Francis (nee SLOWGROVE) and at the time of the census were living at 104...

My G Aunt left her home in Manchester to live with a man in Cheshire abt 1911, the relationship didnt last, her grandaughter, my 2nd cousin tells me that she had 2 children ( have seen both birth certs) 1 of these children was my cousins father, her father told her that his sister had died young...

hi i was reading some threads about a adoptions and i agree an adoptee as a right to know who their parents where but do you think some people like me that have a brother that supposely been adopted whom i not met have a right to know about them too. i mean i heard my brother lives a few miles down...

This is a bit of a family mystery/secret It seems after my great granddad was KIA, my great gran had another child, Alls that is known is that she went away for a few months and then came back and her sister ended up with a new baby. For the time i would have thought the name was quite...

I have found an 1881 census listing for an ancestor who is at age 3 the daughter of the head of the household. 10 years later, she is listed as his niece. There's no doubt in my mind it's the same people- ages, places of birth and occupations all match- and the head's job is as a police...

I know my g grandmother was adopted between the 1901 and 1911 census' by her uncle, (I know her birth mother also, who seems to have gone off the rails one way or another) and I have the uncle's details. What I wonder is whether the details of the adoption process / application records might be...

Hi All Me again lol! This time i am trying to track a adoption that occurred in India in the 1840's. The lady in Question was Born in 1833 in Burma I am led to believe, and Married to my Grt Grt Grandfather Joseph Humphreys in 1847, in Madras he was serving in the Army. Record of service is as...

How do you find out information to see if some one was adopted,after the mother remarried? Regards Wallyrator

Hi, I have been researsching my family tree now for three years and have solved many mysteries but one still remains. My maternal grandfather was born in 1906 as William Henry Barlow his mother was Eliza Barlow no father is on the birth certificate. Eliza married a Haddon Charles Lefevre in...

Hi my great grandfather is down as thomas james hughes on the 1891+1901 census of wales, he was born in liverpool 1879. but on the 1881 census of england he is thomas james simmons.on his marriage certificate his father is thomas henry hughes. but on his birth certificate his father was...

I'm trying to find someone that was born in the 1950's. The parents were married in the Rowley Regis area of the West Midlands,I have their names but they later divorced and both remarried. On the mothers side, the second husband adopted the child and i also have his name. I am having trouble in...

I am shortly going to apply for access to adoption papers in Copenhagen. Now, I'm not asking for assistance here with that. I'm assuming that the adoption procedures in Denmark and the UK are fairly similiar which would be a guideline for me and an indication (of sorts) of what to expect in...

i am researching my family history and in the 1891 census my great granddad is Alfred Wagstaff and is down as stepson ,but in the 1901 census he is Alfred Baker stepson.will there be any record of this change of surname? if so where can i look for it??

John Holder born 1851 in Bookham Surrey born to William from Crawley Sussex and Elizabeth Martin of Harcourt Surrey, married Carolyne Ayres In 1881 census they had Jack age 2 and Walter age 6 weeks in 1891 they had extra child George and mother Elizabeth with them and a Reggie trafford born in...

Was it common for a single woman in the 50's to adopt a child? Would a family connection have been necessary (ie the child being born to a sister/cousin) for the adoption to have gone ahead?

My mother’s mother, née Mabel Brigham, was only a baby when her parents died at Westborough, Massachusetts, and she was sent to the New England Home for Little Wanderers until a loving family adopted her, and changed her name to Dorothy Shepherd Hopkins. Her mother was also adopted: Rachel...