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I was told by my Mother that she had a child on 19th March 1931/32 by the name of Thomas (Tommy) Cochran or Grady in a home for unmarried mothers somewhere in/near Glasgow, Scotland. She was told that the child had died (age 3 - 6 months) and that she didn't need to worry about the funeral etc as 'they' would attend to it. I feel that the child may have been adopted or sent elsewhere? I have been unable to find any birth or death certificate, and have been looking for years. Can anyone help?

If your mother was unmarried, the birth would be registered using her maiden surname. Even if the father was present, the birth would be indexed under both the mother's and father's surnames.

have you looked in the scotland bdm website

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

From the index on ScotlandsPeople

Surname Forename Gender Year Ref RD Name Image View
COCHRAN
THOMAS
M
1931
644/16 407
Govanhill

Not seeing a death.

There is a possible death in 1991 for the above birth but the mmn is Stewart.

It may be worth contacting Scotlandspeople as I'm not sure that births of adopted children show on the indexes under their registered birth name.

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

You need to register but can then search for free. There is a 1932 birth showing under Cochran in Govanhill RD.

As the birth is less than 100 years ago you will need to order the certificate through the site, the option is there when you find the search result.

Whether any of the marriages are the same person you can't tell without purchasing certificates.

Only 1 death shows - in 1991, but of a man aged 60 (registration details only as good as informant knows), so could still be alive, or name was changed and he died under that name or no longer in country.

I don't think that Govanhill birth is the correct one. I think he is the son of a couple that married in the early 1920s in Hutchesontown.

Thank you. I had bought a birth certificate but it wasn’t th right one. It becomes expensive......
Regards
Anne

Just a thought if the baby died in its early months did she have the baby and then leave it at the home for adoption

Would have thought if the little one was adopted then the new parents would arrange the funeral

Would a mother and baby home keep a newborn but release the mum ??

There used to be a Church of England unmarried mothers home in Blackpool during the 1950s. When the baby was 6 weeks old the odoptive parents or adoptive Society could call and collect the baby or the mother could take the baby to Liverpool and the adoptive parents would collect from there. The home never kept the baby and sent the mother home.

Thank you all so much for your help. I have now found the birth and death certs of my missing brother, after many years of searching.

Are you just assuming that the Govanhill birth and the 1991 death are the correct ones, or have you found your brother's details somewhere else?

As RG pointed out, the mother of the man who died in 1991 had the maiden surname Stewart.

PM from Anne:

No, that is not the one, but I have found the correct birth and death certs, so thank you for your help.
Kind regards
Anne

Just to let the other helpers, Tommy was a middle name for the child. I thought I was, perhaps, clutching at straws when I found a possible death at less than a year old but with a different first name. I sent it to Anne by PM but wasn't too hopeful. Anne download that death entry and found that it was, indeed, her brother.

A satisfactory, although sad, outcome.