Mystery Adoption

[kathb]

Hello everyone, just throwing another posssibility into this situation. Could it be that she was getting married and didn't want to admit that Oscar was not her natural father on the marriage certificate. Given how some people react to illegitimacy is this a possibility for the formal adoption?!!! Even though Oscar was already dead, she might have felt better about naming him and it showing as deceased.
Regards
Kathb

[dawnsh]

A good suggestion but to all intents and purposes Oscar had been her father since just after birth and even now you don't have to 'prove' who your father is on an English marriage cert.

There are many stories here of made up names on marriage certs.

[mazi]

I was thinking it was eliz. senior, oscars widow, who was about to remarry

Mike

[Raybistre]

Hi, I don't think adopted children had rights of inheritance unless named in a will pre 1949.
ref: researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06379/SN06379.pdf.
Extract: The Adoption of Children Act 1949 (England and Wales), which began as a Private
Member’s Bill, provided that the placement of children for adoption would thenceforth be
supervised by local authorities. It also that provided parental consent to the making of an
adoption order, in pursuant to an application, could be given without knowledge of the
applicant’s identity. Cretney states that in practice “consent could now be given to an
adoption by a person about whom the mother knew nothing; and the emphasis originally
placed on the need for her to take a personal decision about the adopters’ suitability had
disappeared.”7 The names of adopters were not disclosed on application forms but serial
numbers were used instead. Access to the identity of the parent could only be given if an
application was made to the Register General.
In addition, the 1949 Act gave adopted children the same status as birth children giving them
the rights to inherit. It made provision for the treatment of adopted people as children of
adopters for the purposes of intestacies, wills and settlement.

Ray

[Heather58]

Good evening everyone just a update on the mystery adoption - unfortunately I still don't know the answer.  I spoke to the Superintendent Registrar in Chester and he straight away told me to ignore the short birth certificate and the reason being that on the original birth certificate her name could have been different.  We - that's Elizabeth Joan Morgan's daughter are going to write to the Court in Chester - thank you all for your help and will certainly let you know the outcome.
Kind regards
Heather

[groom]

Hi, I don't think adopted children had rights of inheritance unless named in a will pre 1949.
ref: researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06379/SN06379.pdf.

You can leave your money to whoever you like, so if her mother had named her as a beneficiary it wouldn't matter if she was adopted or not. It would only be if there was no will that she wouldn't inherit. 

[MargP]

Thank you for the update

Margp