Forum: Adoption Pre 1911

I know I'll get told off but i'm not sure exactly where this post should go. This is going to be abit long winded but I shall endeavour to explain it the best i can. My Mothers and Grandfathers name is Currie. As is my Great Grandfathers on his wedding and death certificate. My mum has always told...

As someone who was adopted in 1956, I went through Social Services for counselling, and NORCAP for support and making the actual contact with my birth family. I would strongly advise anyone involved with the subject of adoption as either an adoptee, adoptive family or birth family to contact...

I have recently established contact with a second cousin. her grandmother and mine were sisters. She tells me she was told my great aunt, her grandmother, at the age of 17/18 had a baby to a married man in 1911, she has a birth record for this child, she was also told by family members that the...

I have got the 1911 census of my great nan/grand-dad, Thomas and Eliza (Eleanor) Cubbins and they were in their 50's and my grand-dad, Frederick was 10 years old. I notice that there is a 7 months old baby, Ethel with no surname or where she was born and says adopted. Does this mean they adopted...

If i have the right details , and at this moment i think i have but also have doubts ? would my grandfather have been adopted officially sometime after 1896? If i have the right person he was born John Kay 1889 to Sarah Ann Kay , no father named on birth certificate, she went on to...

I have just found my mothers birth cert and would love to find more re her parents. her birth cert has her adopted name but has her birth parents. Isabella Maria Thornton. born 18/5/1908. south sheilds, father Harry Clark bricklayer, mother Mary Clark nee Monkhouse. hoping you can help.

Hello , Please can someone clarify whether this forum can help me in relation to an adoption!! in 1922 as there seems to be post 1900 threads here. If not where should I post the question?. Many Thanks Peter

Hi, This might sound a stupid question but my Mother and Uncle were adopted sometime between 1942 and 1955. I have all their BMD records and have traced both sides of their parents family back to my G.G.G Grandparents. What I would like to find out is who adopted them and why. They are...

Hi All, A friend was adopted in the late 1940's as a baby. She was told she was adopted from an early age but a 'stoney silence' has always surrounded the circumstances. With difficulty I think I have almost certainly discovered her real birth certificate and the name of her mother. I have also...

I have a Lily Ada F Dowson that was born c1888. I have thought that she may have been adopted as a child. My dad says he heard about this when he was a child and that she may have been taken to Australia. However my dads cousin says that her mother used to talk about an 'aunt Lilly' that used...

Hi I'm hoping some-one can help me solve this mystery- After years of searching I finally tracked down my Grandfather Henry james Beech b.1892 through his mother Elizabeth who was widowed by my G. Grandfather Robert William Coward he died in 1907 and Elizabeth went on to marry William Kneale in...

Hi. Can anyone help me? My Great Great Grandfather was adopted. His name was Frederick William (Haines - adopted surname). He was born in 1873 in London and was adopted by John and Jane Haines. They later moved to Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Can anyone advise me how to find Fredericks birth...

Hi Please can anyone tell me if your pre-adoption birth certificate with original birth parents are destroyed once you are adopted. I don't want to trace my fathers birth parents but fill the gap - he has provided me with his original name. Lou

If I did go down the route of sending for an adoption certificate what kind of information would be on it? This isnt something i will be jumping into but I am curious as to what I may find out before doing it. Thanks in advance Just answered my own question there by googling stuff. ...

Hi Listers, Seeking information, direction and or advice on how to seek out my Mother in Law who was born in 1904, died 1966 but came to Canada in 1907 with another family. Her immigration and marriage records indicate "adoption". Hilda May ?????, was born in Brighton, East Preston, October...

There's a huge brick wall in one section of my family tree, and I was wondering if anyone has any advice on how to overcome it, or whether it will stay a brick wall forever! My grandfather's mother was called Elizabeth Harrison. My auntie has traced Elizabeth's family back as far as she can take...

I'm looking for the natural parents of a boy born in Nottingham on 19 Dec !892, adopted by a Methodist couple in W.Yorkshire. Do you think the workhouse would be the place to look?

Apologies for this query being just over the 1900 deadline but I hope you will understand why I've posted it when I explain... My grandfather, William Henry Fitzgerald was born in 1901 in the Chelsea Workhouse but was raised by a William Henry Davison, whose name he later took. The father's...

Seeking details of my grandfather's adoption in Birkenhead he was born april 1891 Tom Mcgain and was adopted by Job Harding thanks Maureen