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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Antrim => Topic started by: lbw on Thursday 29 December 16 06:40 GMT (UK)
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I am looking for information about Catherine Agnes McCaffrey who was adopted.
I know that she married Robert Whitten in July 1914 and died in May 1923.
Is there anyway to find out how?why?when?and by whom she was adopted?
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Official adoption in Northern Ireland didn't begin until the 1920s so there's unlikely to be a record of why another family looked after her. In those days 'adoption' was usually just an arrangement whereby relatives, friends or neighbours looked after a child when a parents/parents were not able to do so.
Shown as 'adopted daughter' of Susan Bingham in 1911- age 20 so born c1891-
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Falls__Belfast_/Hutchinson_St/181071
Shown as 'lodger' in same household in 1901-
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Falls/Hutthinson_Street/951473
Susan Bingham died 1918- looking at others buried in same plot Moore and McKee are listed-
https://ssl.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialsearch/BurialRecordDetails.aspx?RecordID=6167.49141
Death registered by her brother James Isaac Boles-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1918/05174/4428007.pdf
The marriage lists her father as Robert McCaffrey-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1914/09854/5578543.pdf
Catherine's burial record gives no clues-
https://ssl.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialsearch/BurialRecordDetails.aspx?RecordID=6835.920
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Susans death was registered by her brother Isaac Boles who appears to be this man also born Monaghan
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Cromac/St__Alban_s_Gardens/166723/
not obvious in 1901 to me
possible birth
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FR9J-N1M
edited to add ignore the above birth his fathers name is James
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1884/10906/5983986.pdf
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Isacc (sic) Boles 1901 http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Falls/Stanley_Street/952359/
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I am looking for information about Catherine Agnes McCaffrey who was adopted.
I know that she married Robert Whitten in July 1914 and died in May 1923.
Is there anyway to find out how?why?when?and by whom she was adopted?
Thank you all for your help - it is much appreciated