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Offline McKelvieClan

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Boarded out Record Cards
« on: Wednesday 01 March 23 20:59 GMT (UK) »
Good evening
Still trying to track down the elusive grandmother.   I came across a birth record for an Ann Morrison, mother Margaret Morrison born illegitimately at the poor house in 1904.  Mother is recorded as a jute mill worker and residing at 5 Water Street Port Dundas Glasgow.  Check or the valuation rolls and I cant find a link.
I have contacted the archives at Glasgow life and they have said that they do have a boarded out record card for this record.  She was boarded out by the Glasgow Corporation.  What information will the boarded out record contain?  Will it say who she was boarded out to?  She was adopted.  Is it possible that she was boarded out to one person and then adopted by somebody else? 
Her death certificate has her birth date as 22 August, but the birth date on this record is 24 August.  Could this be the same person?

 

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Re: Boarded out Record Cards
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 01 March 23 21:09 GMT (UK) »
This is a follow-on from https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=870446.0

Yes, the parochial board records will say to whom she was boarded out.

She cannot have been formally adopted because there was no legal provision for adoption until after she was an adult.
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.