jenner/ iver/beech

[kevinbond]

my friend has just died she was  "given" to a couple in 1939 her birth mother was a edith maude jenner , think her married name was beech. my friend was named Margaret iver Beech but she never knew where she came from she was never legally adopted  anyone any ideas . my friend margaret was born in sunderland

[KGarrad]

If this was in England or Wales, the legal Adoption began in 1927?
So you couldn't have been "given" to anybody? It was illegal!

Birth Registration (from FreeBMD):
June qtr 1939
Sunderland Registration District     vol 10a, page 945

Beech, Margaret I     Mother's Maiden Name: Jenner

[avm228]

Are you sure it was Edith, or could she have been Ethel M Jenner, who married Benjamin A Beech in Medway in 1929?

[Ayashi]

Just to update this thread, I did a bit of digging in the chatroom just now.

My proposed state of affairs as a result:

It's possible that Ethel M married Benjamin BEECH as mentioned by avm (with one male child). I can't see the 1939 "census" entry but can see the index, wherein her name is also "BLUNDY". I think she may have married Harold BLUNDY back down in Kent, although he appears to have died a year later. I think her death may have taken place in Coventry, where someone matching the name of her son also dies so perhaps she was with him there.

Have suggested this as a route of investigation

[ScouseBoy]

If this was in England or Wales, the legal Adoption began in 1927?
So you couldn't have been "given" to anybody? It was illegal!

Birth Registration (from FreeBMD):
June qtr 1939
Sunderland Registration District     vol 10a, page 945

Beech, Margaret I     Mother's Maiden Name: Jenner

        However     quite often  people  do "illegal"    things

[jennifer c]

There is also an Elsie Jenner married a Frank Beech 1935 Hastings

You would need the birth certificate to move forward.

Jennifer

[Ayashi]

There is also an Elsie Jenner married a Frank Beech 1935 Hastings

You would need the birth certificate to move forward.

Jennifer

I'm pretty sure the OP has the birth certificate. In chat, the mother's name was given as Ethel Maude.