Birth certificate annotated by the Registrar "Adopted" at Birth

[dowdstree]

Ann_P  To answer your question there is no RCE attached to Mary's Birth Certificate. Written on the left hand side is "Adopted" and the Registrar's name. I downloaded it myself just to check. So maxcam is no further forward with finding out who brought Mary up.

I know what you mean about late RCE's as I have a couple of family ones too. Very confusing at times.

Dorrie

[anne_p]

Thanks Dorrie.
I couldn't see any mention of a possible RCE on the thread.

[brigidmac]

Maxcam it's wonderful that the descendants of Annie and Mary can share stories and maybe photos

Among my DNA links are two people who had same ggrandmother one daughter  was adopted but knew her birth mother  and the other brought up by birth father . They gave me permission to share a photo of the birth mother as I was comparing likenesses to JONES family
To the amazement of the one whose  grandma was brought up by father he had exactly the same photo tho he didn't know who it was
It proved that the birth mother or her family had been in touch with both daughters after a marriage and subsequent children !(it
Also meant I could work out how the DNA connected  to one as I'd been looking at a different line of Jones on their tree that didn't match !)

[maxcam]

Sorry if I am silly but I don't know what RCE is. For a bit of background the person in question lost her mother when she was approx 4 years old but she did not live with her Father after that and was raised by extended family.Would this fit?

[dowdstree]

Sorry we are using jargon here. An RCE (Register of Corrected Entries) is an amendment to a Birth, Marriage or Death Certificate. It comes in the form of an extra sheet attached to the original. A reason for this could be when the mother of an illegitimate child takes the father to court to prove paternity.

Whole number of reasons depending on the circumstances of the event.

Dorrie

[maxcam]

Thanks for that, I'll go and have another look at the Certificate

[brigidmac]

Thanks for asking that question maxcam.i didn't know what an RCE was either !

Although adoption wasn't legalized til1924
My own grandmother was listed as Adopted daughter on UK.1911 census
As was her potential half sister .
The term foster child wasn't used .

[dowdstree]

In Scotland legal adoptions did not come into being until 1930. Later than the rest of the U.K.

Dorrie

[maxcam]

I know what you mean. MY OH's maternal family were Leithers and woe betide you if you said they lived in Edinburgh. We actually had a wander down Leith Walk a few years looking for the " Hole in The Wall", one of his childhood memories and we stopped a road sweeper for directions only to discover a supermarket had been built on the spot. Such is life