Informal Adoption c1903

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Member Since: October 2003 Posts: 914 Send Message	Sheila	Report	19 Apr 2008 12:51
Member Since: October 2003 Posts: 914 Send Message	Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can make progress with this one? I have been contacted by a relative whose grandmother was brought up has part of an aunt's family because she was born illegitimate in 1903. She was known by the name of the aunt's family and married under that name in 1922. I've considered various possibilities, but she does not seem to be registered between 1901 and 1905 under either the surname of her birth mother or under her 'adopted' name. I wondered whether they had passed her off as auntie's child right from the beginning, but seemingly not. I need to get the marriage certificate, but if that doesn't come up with a father's name then I think I'm stuck...unless someone out there knows differently. Sheila
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 26,193 Send Message	Gwyn in Kent	Report	19 Apr 2008 13:00
	Have you looked for a birth in a completely different area too? I know of someone informally adopted into her extended family and it is thought that the birth mother's own father never knew about his daughter's illegitimate child born after she went on an extended visit to help out a relative in another area.......(to give birth really) Gwyn