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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Topic started by: Tyresson2012 on Thursday 05 November 15 00:54 GMT (UK)
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Hi
Would anyone happen to have information on a "G" Carter, 26 Granville Street, Glasgow. A relative of ours lived with them in 1953. Just found a letter with the address on it but searched for hours and could not come up with anything?
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I am looking for relatives who were born in Scotland in the 1950's. Possibly 1953. They were twins, one male one female and were given up for adoption and their mother returned home to Ireland.
Where is my best bet to find out any information about them? I would love to find out about them and try and track them down so to speak.
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I would start here:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/research/guides/adoption-records
And maybe Birthlink (details on the link)
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Their mother was Helen Boyce whom is now deceased (2006)
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Not sure if "G. Carter" was male or female, Helen Boyce was staying with this person in 1953. Any help appreciated 😀
Twins / Carter topics merged.
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You will not be allowed to see any of the adoption records relating to these twins. Adoption records are closed for 100 years; the only people allowed to see adoption records less than 100 years old are the adopted persons themselves, or their authorised representatives.
So your only hope, really, is that they themselves are interested in finding out about their birth mother.
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I am looking for relatives who were born in Scotland in the 1950's. Possibly 1953. They were twins, one male one female and were given up for adoption and their mother returned home to Ireland.
Where is my best bet to find out any information about them? I would love to find out about them and try and track them down so to speak.
Try to buy a copy of their birth certificate, I suggest.
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Tyresson2012, without actually doing this type of search in person at one of the main genealogy centres, it is tricky as you cannot view any birth cert online (100 year privacy rule). Doing this search in person, lets you view these certs in detail on the terminals there. By this time you can also search (in person only, not online) using mother's maiden name which obviously helps too.
One thing you can do though on the main online index is look for sequential numbers on the register. With twins, you would expect the numbering to follow. There are two Boyce births, both boys though, in the Glasgow area in Camlachie in 1954. Not sure if they connect with what you are looking for. I will send you a personal message with their names and refs.
Monica :)
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Would anyone happen to have information on a "G" Carter, 26 Granville Street, Glasgow. A relative of ours lived with them in 1953. Just found a letter with the address on it but searched for hours and could not come up with anything?
1953 is too recent for the available information to be online. You need to consult the Registers of Electors. There are copies of these in the Mitchell Library/Glasgow Archives, and in the National Records of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland, both in Edinburgh.
If you can't go there in person, you can contact any of those for assistance, or you can hire a professional searcher, or you can try to find a kind soul wo is going to one of them and would be willing to look them up on your behalf.
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The British Library has a set in storage which can be ordered for viewing.
I looked at the catalogue and you need to know which constituency that address was in and there are 18 to chose from.
The catalogue is here, Glasgow constitencies start on pg 138
http://www.bl.uk/britishlibrary/~/media/subjects%20images/government%20publications/pdfs/parliamentaryconstituencies.pdf
If you can work out which one, I can order it up and have a look.
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Hi, this was a long time ago but did you ever track the twins down? I am trying to find information on the parents of 2 adopted twins (one boy, one girl) in Scotland 1953 but have little to go on. A long shot perhaps.
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There are two Boyce births, both boys though, in the Glasgow area in Camlachie in 1954.
It looks as if one of this pair of twins married in 1976 and the other in 1989, both using their birth surnames, so it doesn't look as if they were adopted.
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I see a pair of twins, boy and girl, in Glasgow Milton in 1953, refs 644.10/191 and 644.10/192.
One of them is William Boyce Hutchison who died in Ayr in 2011, mother's surname Boyce. He is also indexed as William Boyce Shaw.
The other twin seems to have married twice, once in 1972 and again in 1987, and I have not found a death.
However a Catherine Aird Boyce or Hutchison or Shaw died in 2002 aged 74. Catherine Aird Boyce married first in 1949 (have not found this husband's death) and again in 1965 (there are four possible deaths of the second husband but he might still be living.
Obviously, this doesn't match the story of the twins' mother being Helen Boyce, or of the twins being adopted.