Genealogy Chat

Hi Clare.

Os the child male of female ? have you looked for marriages and deaths through all these years ? there is also the chance they are still living, have you checked trees on here ?

Thank you. Eileen. I will leave my details on the adoption contact register for my cousins. Wyldeone

Official legal adoption started in 1927, although there would still have been private arrangements made for a while after that time, and these would be virtually impossible to trace.
One avenue of search is to put a notice on the Government run Adoption Contact Register - for a small fee you can leave your details and those of the person you are seeking - if that person ever asks for their birth records then they will be told that someone is looking for them, and you will be told that a connection has been made. You can opt to be contacted direct, or through an intermediary.
This was eventually how I found my full sister, I had started searching forty years ago and had tried many ways. Fifteen years ago I had put a notice on the register. This year, at the age of 63 my sister decided to look for her roots, and was given my message that had lain there for 15 years.

Eileen
birth name
born 1944 - adopted 1946

I have just got a birth certificate for a relation who was illegitimate and it says on the side of it that he was adopted. By the way Cliff House in Minster where he was born was a work house. It does not say who he was adopted to so I am stuck again but the Cliff House records are at the Centre for Kentish Studies in Maidstone. As I am in New Zealand , it is rather difficult to get there. Does anyone know a good researchre in the Maidstone area? Thank you, Wyldeone

Hi Clare,

have you considered that the person from the 1930's could still be living?


Dee x

I am wondering if there are any ways to find out if someone was adopted? I have a birth but have no record of a death and am wondering if the child was adopted. This was in the 1930's. Thanks