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Title: Registrar's Name and Signature for Adoption
Post by: jetden on Monday 02 May 11 23:39 BST (UK)

Hello,

Is it possible to trace a Registration District from an additional counter signature?

I am searching for an adopted brother. His original birth certificate is signed by the Registrar, for the District of Samford, East Suffolk. However, because he was adopted, it is also endorsed "Adopted" and countersigned by a Superindentant Registrar named, A.E. Cutler.

Can you please tell me what District of Suffolk, A.E. Cutler would have been responsible for in 1949?

Many thanks,

Jetden

Title: Re: Registrar's Name and Signature for Adoption
Post by: dawnsh on Tuesday 03 May 11 12:55 BST (UK)

Hi again Jetden

When a child is officially adopted, an instruction is sent from the Registrar General to the Superintendent Registrar where the birth was first registered to amend the original birth entry. AE Cutler would have been the Superintendent Registrar for Samford, East Suffolk.

Dawn

Title: Re: Registrar's Name and Signature for Adoption
Post by: Glen in Tinsel Kni on Tuesday 03 May 11 13:03 BST (UK)

The Superintendent Registrar has legal custody of all the birth, marriage and death registers for the local district, in this case Samford, district 4b from 1946-1974.

Irrespective of the district the adoption took place in the original certificate will have been retained (and later countersigned) at the register  office of the original registration.

Title: Re: Registrar's Name and Signature for Adoption
Post by: Glen in Tinsel Kni on Tuesday 03 May 11 13:05 BST (UK)

And just to add, if you had the birth certificate and post adoption certificate in front of you there is nothing to link the two documents together, the only duplicated information would be the date of birth.

Title: Re: Registrar's Name and Signature for Adoption
Post by: jetden on Wednesday 04 May 11 04:56 BST (UK)

Thank you,

For clarifying my attempt to "clutch at a straw"in my search for an adopted brother. Information I had received suggested the endorsment "Adopted" was counter signed by a Registrar in a District where he was raised and lived.

It's all part of the search to check everything, thank you for clearing that up.

Regards,

jetden.