adoption records

[tracym]

Im looking into my family tree and have seen that my great gandmother was adopted, this was back in  in 1900 so where would i need to look for any infomation regarding this pleas

tia 

[stanmapstone]

There was no legal adoption at that date, so there will be no records. Legal adoption started in 1927.

Stan

[stanmapstone]

Child adoption had no legal status in Britain (including under the separate legal system of Scotland) untill the 1926 Adoption Act which came into effect 1st January 1927. Children were just handed over with mainly a verbal agreement and, at best, a declaration setting out the child's change of identity was drawn up by a solicitor, but it was by no means a legally binding document.

Stan

[TerriG]

My grandmother was adopted in 1918 and she, and her 2 siblings, kept the names given to them by their birth mothers.  I sent off for her birth certificate which gave me her birth mother's name and address.  It turned out that her adoptive parents were related by marriage to her birth family.

If however your great grandmother was given a new name, then it will be much more difficult to locate her birth parents' details.

Maybe there are clues in the census, or perhaps she was baptised by her birth mother before being handed over.

Good luck with your search.