Genealogy Chat

Yes its estimated 10% of kids are brought up in a family where the father is not the genetic parent. As you say, so what - I think it is the relationships that have counted, not the blood - after all none of us are related to our spouses are we? Well, not in this part of the country, anyway!

Didn't someone on this site suggest that, to trace a correct family tree, we should trace the maternal line...there can be no doubt about a child in the womb...the mother is the mother regardless of the father....

For what it is worth,a relative of mine had two children adopted ,one after she was married and one of the children was adopted by the next door neighbour.

In my husband's family the last child born to his great grandmother and grandfather was a girl who was brought up as their child and registered as so - but their ages and family rumours point to the child being the daughter of their eldest child, Catherine, born out of wedlock - it can't be proved but I'll bet their were may families who hid a 'love child' in the same way.....

what relationship was given for your g grandad to the household he was with in the census.

Claire Are you saying there was an older brother, then your grandfather and his twin sister and that the two boys were adopted by one family and his sister by another? What evidence do you have that your grandfather was a) adopted and b) had a twin sister and when roughly did this take place? nell

If they were in the same street I think that would make it a bit difficult, all the neighbours would know, not to mention the other brothers and sisters.

Never thought about it like that :P thank you. But it has made things dificult for me now, all I have is circumstantial evidence on a census. I believe my G Grandad was adopted and had a twin sister, I have found his name and in the same street as girl who is the same age (7 months) from a very very large family. In the family my G Grandad is in there is only him and his older brother. It maybe possible he was adopted too.

At that time, with most births at home, I would have thought it would be pretty easy. Why dont you put more details up on the boards so people can have a think about it?

Can you lie on Birth certificates? Is it possible that you could, say adopt a child from birth, not record this and Pass it off as your own and register it as yours in 1900?