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I am trying to follow up a private adoption of a baby born in Lindsay house East Mosely in 1936. The adoptive parents a took the baby to Hatfield where they lived to register the adoption via Hatfield Juvenile court. It would seem that the property in East Mosely wasn't a maternity hospital and the baby was kept in care in a children's home or hospital where there were several sick babies from poor backgrounds although this baby was very small it survived and thrived after adoption.The baby was born in june 1936 and 'found' in January 1937 in this baby home/hospital but no records exist of this place although the name of baby and mother are known. baby was given a full birth certificate at adoption, no father's name. but regarding the private adoption a reference was made to railway workers. An assumption being made that this was the source of the 'private' aspect of the adoption. The baby now an 83 year old adult is keen to find out more about those missing months between birth and adoption. I am wondering if anyone would know or have heard of a range of facilities such as these for unwed mothers in 1936.I have joined the Surrey national archives site but it is having problems today so I thought I would try my luck on here. Previous requests/replies have been very helpful and I would like to say Thank you for all your help.

Hi Can anyone help me with Anne Theme who married Thomas Reeves in Launton 18/10/1803 THEME is such an awkward surname to research and I wondered if it is common in the area. I would like to know who here parents were please.

Henry Reeve c1695 married AnnTompkins c 1695 are  at the top of Reeves research. they had had a son Richard Reeve 1618-1683 but as there are a lot of Richard Reeve's he is difficult to follow. I suspect that this is where we added the S to reeve but it is difficult to find anything to confirm this. The Reeves family came from Ireland to Launton Oxfordshire and spread across to norfolk. I wonder if the launton to Cambridge railway line facilitated this. The S carried on for a hundred years or so but was lost around 1719 When Henry Reeve was born to William Reeves c 1725 and Mary Botterill. This might have been due to the Norfolk accent but the reapperance of the S haunts me. Does anyone know the story please?.

Hi Donny people

My grandmother Emily Reeves (b. 1867 nee' Roughton) died in Doncaster in January 1919 in the Spanish Flu epidemic. I have never been able to find out where she was buried and I wonder if there was a communal burial ground at the time. My grandfather usually recorded all relevant information about births and deaths in the family bible but this particular information isn't there. The family were Methodists/Weslyans and lived in Sylvester Street at the time.
 
Can anyone spread some light on this for me please?

Thanks in anticipation

Briagh

Hi Everyone

I wonder if anyone can help me find out the maiden name of Mary Anne, born in Hickling 1873 who married (?) my great uncle Alfred Reeves born 1866 Peterborough 2nd son of Henry and Caroline.

I may be relying on an old family scandal here

I can find them on the 1901 (Alfred mispelt as Affred) etc with Mary Anne's age and  place of birth and their children Pauline born 1894 and Alfred Claud born 1897 but absolutely no marriage or banns any where. They were living in Richmond Surrey in 1901 where both children were born according to the census but again no birth records for Pauline but one for baby Alfred no mmn recorded as too early.

They dissappear after that and no 1911 for them.

 I have a vague suspicion that they eventually emigrated to USA but I'm still working on that one.
Our Reeves were prolific users of the Family Naming patterns and names are used over a very extended family so great care is needed here

Help!!