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Advice - Adoptions
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CelticShiv | Report | 18 Oct 2004 18:29 |
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My grandfather's brother, who I have only recently discovered, was born in 1922. I today recieved a copy of his original birth cert from the gro and wrote on the side in brackets is "adopted" and is signed by superintendent register.. Is this something they did on birth certificates of children that were adopted. He was adopted by my great grandmothers second husband. |
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CelticShiv | Report | 18 Oct 2004 18:33 |
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Sorry, I think you have misunderstood me. What I mean't was. Is this the norm. If a child was adopted, did they then write this on the original birth certs. So in theory you could tell if a child had been adopted. does that make sense, what I am trying to get across. |
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CelticShiv | Report | 18 Oct 2004 18:39 |
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Hiya, thank you to you both. I just found this quite an interesting fact. So it seems, if someone was adopted, you will know by there original birth certificate, which could be an useful fact to know in the future. When struggling to find a ancestor in censuses etc. regards, Siobhan |
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CelticShiv | Report | 18 Oct 2004 18:40 |
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It is cos adoptions are also kept quite secret, especially in those days, so i didn't expect it to be written on the original. Thanks for clarifying that all for me. |
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Jeanie | Report | 18 Oct 2004 18:50 |
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Hi, Husbands grandfather was born in 1867. History had it that he was adopted by an Emily Simpson Atkins. Birth cert had Emily on it but not the word adopted. Found on the 1871 census of Gloucester (free to view on Genuki) Edmund Atkinson correct age and place of birth and the word adopted next to him. but with a family called Greenaway. On he 1881 he is with the same family, name spelt correctly this time but boarder rather than adopted! We surmise by this that Emily was the birth mother and she probably farmed him out to this family. So check the closest census to double check Cheers Jeanie |
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Unknown | Report | 18 Oct 2004 18:54 |
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I don't think you can link people's birth certs with their adoption details or vice versa. nell |
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CelticShiv | Report | 18 Oct 2004 19:00 |
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I know who his birth parents are. He stayed with his mother, it was just her second husband adopted him. As it seems the relationship with his biological father didn't last. |
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Sheila | Report | 18 Oct 2004 20:16 |
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Hi All, Dont know about years ago but what normally happens now is your birth is only ever registered under your original birth name, when you are adopted a second birth certificate is issued, the long version will have your adoptive parents names on, the short version will say it was taken from an extract of the General Registers office. Sometimes when you get adoption cert, these is an S down on the side and sometimes a reference number not always though. Also sometimes on 1837 you will see and entry crossed out a new number given and a S beside it this normally indicates and adopted child. Hope this information helps. Regards Sheila |
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