I am hoping for some advice on how best to proceed in the search for the name of my grandmother's birth parents. We have no formal documentation and all information was told to my grandmother by her adoptive parents (William and Fanny Taylor of Barton Upon Humber), as well as snippets told by family friends.
My grandmother, Elsie Eva, was born 29 November 1911 (as far as she was aware - we have no birth certificate). We understand that her father was a doctor from Hull (Hessle) and her mother a nurse (believed to be French). It was said that they both died in a shipping accident and as the adoption was understood to have taken place when she was around 3-6 months old, we have assumed for many years that they were onboard the Titanic. However, I can find no information about them in the passenger lists. There were no other relevant shipping incidents.
Even if all the above is unfounded, I figured that the birth must have been registered. But I can't find any trace of an Elsie Eva being born in Hull either during qtr4 1911 or qtr1 1912.
I have also looked at the 1939 register which lists her dob as 11 October 1912 which just confuses me entirely!
Does anyone have any tips or ideas to shine any light on this? I am aware that there were no formal adoption records before 1926 but could there possibly be anything else held by any institutions?
I have also considered the possibility that the Hull connection could just be an elaborate story, and that the reasons for her adoption were much closer to home, so any further advice on this would be gratefully received!
Many thanks