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cranstone
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Adoption?
« on: Sunday 24 September 06 12:51 UTC (UK) »
Hi

I wonder if anyone can tell me anything about adoption in around the 1890's please?

I believe my g.grandmother and her sister were adopted by a James and Jessie McKenzie in around 1890 (or later) when Annie was born.  I have no idea if it was offical or not - are there any records of adoptions?

I was told they adopted them and took them back to Belfast.

I haven't been able to find anything on James and Jessie so only have the story of Belfast to go on.

Many thanks
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runner
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Re: Adoption?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 24 September 06 23:54 UTC (UK) »
Hi cranstone

There are severl earlier threads relating to adoption on the site
Try
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,118064.0.html

There was no formal adoption process prior to 1927 in England & Wales and I think the same applied in Scotland.
Children were simply taken by relatives and became part of their family . If they were quite young they might even give the names of their 'adoptive' parents as their birth parents. Older chldren often kept their original surname.

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Falkyrn
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Re: Adoption?
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 24 September 06 23:57 UTC (UK) »
In Scotland adoption did not become "official" until 1930 many were conducted within the family although there were other adoptions via third parties but as far as I am aware there are no records available.

This a quote from the National Archives Scotland site
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Adoptions before 1930
Before 1930 adoptions were arranged on a private basis, either by individuals or by one of a number of charitable adoption agencies. NAS currently holds no records for adoptions before 1930.

Adoptions after 1930
The Adoption of Children (Scotland) Act, 1930 introduced legal adoption into Scotland from that year. Adoptions since then have normally been arranged by charitable bodies or by local authority social work departments and then ratified by the civil courts. The majority of adoptions are ratified through the local sheriff courts, although a tiny number (perhaps two or three each year) are settled through the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

If the adoption was carried out by an agency such as barnardo's or quarriers they may have records but it's only a very slim chance at best
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