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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Tracing a brother
« on: Monday 24 November 25 08:35 GMT (UK)  »
Biggles50 is on the right track. As a sibling or maybe half sibling of an adopted person then you classify as one of the “prescribed relationships” that is entitled to assistance from Social Services in order to learn about your brother. This service falls under what used to be called “post adoption services” but I think they changed the name a few years ago. You have to contact your local social services, children’s social services to be exact. It has to be the social services local to you now, not local to wherever the birth or adoption happened. Get in touch with them, explain your situation and it should all roll along from there. It’s possible they’ll try to fob you off to an independent adoption agency who are also permitted to conduct this service, but that will cost you whereas social services is free. Very happy to advise further if it helps, just message me here.

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Family History Beginners Board / Jarrow Deanery Moral Welfare Society - Newcastle/South Shields - 1960's
« on: Friday 15 August 25 10:59 BST (UK)  »
Would there be anyone here that knows anything about the above moral welfare society operating out of South Shields in the early 60's?  That organisation was a charity based christian society that was heavily involved in adoption work in the Newcastle area in that period.

I'm particularly keen to find anyone that had some sort of personal connection with that organisation.

Any and all information gratefully received.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Adoption Records
« on: Saturday 09 August 25 12:22 BST (UK)  »
Check your mailbox Joanne, pm waiting for you.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: I need to pick your brains!
« on: Wednesday 02 July 25 12:07 BST (UK)  »
Fascinating reply there Doreen Peacock, we share much in common it seems!  Private message inbound for you.

Update on the general overview of my post regarding the mother and baby home involved (Myford House):

"Myford House was a mother and baby home run by the Church of England Diocese (Lichfield). The surviving records of the CofE Diocese Lichfield are held by  the Shropshire Archives".

"If the Church of England Children’s Society was involved, they are now called the Children’s Society".

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: I need to pick your brains!
« on: Sunday 22 June 25 13:48 BST (UK)  »
Right, here's where I'm up to at the moment.  The following organisations were definitely involved in the placement of children (adoption) in the 1940's

Barnados

Shrewsbury Diocesan Children's Rescue Society

Salvation Army

The Salvation Army is an interesting one as I was categorically told ten years ago by both their UK H/Q and the person in charge of their Archives Centre that their organisation was never involved in adoption.  Well their website says otherwise, over the years around 850 children were placed for adoptions through this organisation, ceasing in 1953 due to a change in the law.

If any of you know of any other organisations then pop them up here!

Thanks for the interest and help shown by you all.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: I need to pick your brains!
« on: Saturday 21 June 25 19:32 BST (UK)  »
I like that fiddlerslass, great find, very much appreciated!!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: I need to pick your brains!
« on: Friday 20 June 25 21:17 BST (UK)  »
Excellent find hanes teulu!  It mentions "societies with a licence", they are what we now call adoption agencies (or similar), it's those societies I'm trying to identify in the Shropshire area, 1949 or thereabouts.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: I need to pick your brains!
« on: Friday 20 June 25 21:02 BST (UK)  »
Indseed it was!

Regarding your confusion, I thought my original post was fairly clear.

"I'm trying to identify organisations/institutions involved with adoption in the 1940's in Shropshire, England.  Nowadays we'd call them adoption agencies, back then they went by many names".

I am not looking for mother and baby homes, orphanages, work houses or anything similar and I'm definitely not looking for adoption records.  I'm looking for the many organisations that existed that organised adoptions. 

I know this subject inside out, firstly I was born in a mother and baby home, secondly I was  adopted and lastly I've been through the process of obtaining my adoption records. My problem is in spite of my knowledge on the subject I only know about the agency that dealt with my adoption, now I need to learn about similar organisations in a different part of the country, hence my post.

Google Salvation Army plus my username and see what you find!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: I need to pick your brains!
« on: Friday 20 June 25 20:40 BST (UK)  »
fiddlerslass: An interesting link, I'll investigate it further but for the moment let me make it blatantly clear to everyone that I am not looking for any adoption records.

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