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In the course of trying to trace my grandmothers parents, she was "adopted" by a woman, I say adopted because it was 1926 and adoptions were a little bit loose then...

anyway I have her baptism record from the parish she grew up in with parents names on it, along with the name of the woman who brought her up who seems to have "stood" for them in order to get my GM baptised, and for the parents location it says "parents of Dublin", godparents were the woman who brought my GM up and her nephew....

I'm trying to figure out now how accurate these church records were, it just seems odd to me and her Godfather kind of now seems like an likely candidate for her father, my mind is in overdrive trying to figure it all out, but what I'd like to know is if it was possible for it to be entered on the baptism record but not actually be them at all, we've no idea if they were present at the baptism or not I suppose we have to assume they were, but has anyone had any experience like this where what was recorded on the baptism record wasn't actually how it really was??

Been talking to my aunt and she has said that her mother, my grandmother apparently went to school in St Patricks school, around St lukes, I've found one school, St Patricks infant school, but to be honest it doesn't fit at all with what we know of her otherwise but might also lead to explainations, it's known that she was raised by a woman who wasn't her mother, theres a baptismal record for her where she grew up, east cork, with both parents names on the baptismal cert, but she mentioned once to my aunt that she went to st patricks school in cork, but no mention of what age etc, so I'm just wondering if there were any institutions like mother and baby homes that would have sent kids there, we've only got little bits and pieces of info and a lot just doesn't add up in parts, she was born in 1926 and i've emailed the school to ask them about school records...

I've just been chatting with an aunt of mine who has tried to trace her mothers (my GM) parents, the general gist of the story is that this woman elisabeth moran was married and had either kids or kid, had an affair with another man and as a result elisabeth got pregnant with my nan, and ended up in cork, befriended a woman, and came back after she had my nan and gave her to this woman who then brought her up, not too much more info other than it's said she came from kildare, but that wouldn't be 100% certain either but thought I'd post on the off chance that the story rings a bell with anyone...

I've a few GRO birth certs that were just wrong ones for me, but I don't really want to throw them away because they do have info on them that might be useful for someone else searching, any ideas of any use for them, is there anywhere that would be useful to post the info in them in case anyone might use them?