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Having visited my grandmother last weekend, she told me that she wasn't actually adopted until she was 2 and a half years old! I had assumed she was adopted at birth.

Was 10 Maxwell Road likely to just be where she was born?

Does anyone have any clue about where she might have been placed before adoption?  I doubt she went back with her mother, though cannot rule that out.

Definitely Quest House....the person above me has linked to it

Hello!

I have come across this thread while searching for the same information.

The address is listed on the birth certificate of my Grandmother.  Her mother was an unmarried mother, father unknown.  On looking at 1939 records, a resident there was called Doris Jones, who is listed as a certified midwife.

Ironically, my grandmother's grandmother was also an unmarried mother, who was born at 6 Charminster Road, Bournemouth.  Records show that this was a girls refuge.

My Grandmother is now 95 (almost) and I would love to put some of the pieces of this puzzle together for her as she was adopted as a baby.  Her bio mother went on to marry and have more children, who thankfully my grandmother has contact with.