Purplekatsun - Glamorgan archives (Cardiff) have various register that including admission, discharge and creed, that they could search, since I doubt they are accessible. You could contact them to undertake a search if the registers are closed but the fee is £40 an hour. I'm in the process of trying to access adoption records that are also held there but they can only be released following some sort of involvement by a social worker from the adoption services of whatever authority you currently live in. I am currently trying to access adoption records held there myself relating to a relative who died 50 years ago and a child who was in the cottage homes for a few years. I know who all the adoptive and biological parents were and although they are all long since dead and have provided them with court dates, etc etc, and proof of identity from birth certificates etc, etc I have been told that a social worker has to deal with the case and authorise the release of documents. This will take at least a year unless I opt to pay a private social worker (costing about £1000.00). I have no idea what purpose the social worker is in my case because its not like a normal adoption case where the identity of the adoptive family or adopted children are unknown and they are all dead anyway. Must be a legal technicality or something, but I haven't had a satisfactory explanation from the adoption service as to why this is all necessary.
