Genealogy Chat

After 21 year of research into my grandmothers past i thought i had gathered all the info i need well so i thought.
My nan was adopted and i wanted to know where she was between her birth and the 1911 census i found her but on searching the erler census records i have come to the conclusion that the couple along with other unwanted children were boarding with them and was this something more interesting than first thought . Firstly the couple start off childless and each census they change two were adopted by the couple and the others disapear i know what happend to nan though she wasnt adopted by this couple.
So dont be surprised what you find in the census any ideas what these numbers of children were was it the boarding out of the work house or something private pushed away in the countryside of suffolk ?

This sounds very interesting and mysterious - do you want to put up some dates and names etc and someone will have a look for you?

Thnks bunny i would dearly like to know what happened to the boarding children of this couple but i do not want to offend any living decendants although i would be intrigued to know. just to find if they have had the same outcome has my nan which was privatly adopted by agreement one of the children is listed on this site any ideas what i should do?

Sometimes workhouses and organisations like Barnardo's used to place children with 'foster' families prior to emigrating them or possibly until there was room at an orphanage.

George

I've sent you a pm
Mau

Formal adoptions only started in 1927, so it may be hard to try and find the others, with no leads of who they went to :O(

I aggree that formal adoption never started until 1926-1927 but in my case i am very lucky my grandmother kept her birth name through out her life and even on her death certificate it gives both surname..
I also am very lucky that my grandmother left to me her adoption agreement of 1912 and a letter of 1912 that mentions the child act of 1908 when inspectors could visit a foster home if a child is taken in with out payment which is what happened in my grandmothers case.
So it could well be that those other children may have kept their birth names also...

Thankyou yes if you have the barnados web adress i would be grateful.
Yes i would like to get to the bottom of it all seems very mysterious .
My first port of call will be the local records office for workhouse records just in case they survive ..