Mystery Adoption

[groom]

Not sure if this has been mentioned, could it be that if they adopted her they may have changed her name, therefore her original GRO registration wouldn't be under the name of Elizabeth Joan Morgan?

[MargP]

I agree with Groom, they could have change her name, it looks like they had her from a very young age and gave her there name, instead of her birth name

[a-l]

Another thing intriguing me  is that a woman alone was allowed to adopt.

[dawnsh]

Transcript of the Adoption of Children Act 1926 here

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~framland/acts/adopt1926.htm

makes interesting reading

[isobelw]

I may be wrong, but is it not the case that if she was not officially adopted she would not be in line to succeed to Elizabeth's estate? Perhaps they suddenly realised that the situation had to be legalised before she was 21.
Isobel

[dawnsh]

that would be the case if Elizabeth G had not left a will. The estate would have gone to her brothers and sisters.

If she had left a will she could have left her estate to Elizabeth J.

[groom]

that would be the case if Elizabeth G had not left a will. The estate would have gone to her brothers and sisters.

If she had left a will she could have left her estate to Elizabeth J.

So it probably would have been easier if Elizabeth G just left a will rather than go through adopting someone she'd mothered since she was a baby. Perhaps there was no real reason apart from the fact they suddenly decided that they wanted to make her officially part of the family.

[mazi]

Was Elizabeth not about to remarry, she would have to make  a new will after marriage, maybe she was advised to adopt eliz. in case her will "got lost".

Mike

Added, given that this was wartime, Merseyside was being bombed, anything could happen I think a prudent solicitor handling her husbands estate would have advised her to legalise eliz. Joan's status,

[dawnsh]

even if the will "got lost" and the estate was treated as an intestacy, the daughter would not have benefited if her mothers husband was still alive.

In the rules of intestacy, spouse comes before child.