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Adoption
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Tracy | Report | 26 Aug 2004 21:51 |
Could someone tell me how you would look up an adotion in the 1870s please |
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Janice | Report | 26 Aug 2004 21:52 |
Tracy, You can't. Adoptions weren't registered till about 1927. Janice |
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Guinevere | Report | 26 Aug 2004 21:53 |
Hi, Adoption wasn't "official" until the 1920s (1928 I think). Before that there were no written records, adoptions were informal, often between family members. Gwynne |
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Tracy | Report | 26 Aug 2004 22:02 |
Thanks for that |
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Wendy | Report | 27 Aug 2004 01:28 |
What makes you think you have an adoption? My mother said she was an orphan and was adopted. I took no notice at the time. Too late I questioned this, and eventually found she was raised by her father's eldest brother-- her mother died of TB and I have discovered that there was no-one in her mother's family to take on a baby! This was in 1915. I think you will find that whoever took in the child was a family member. Wendy |