adoption

[lostnconfused]

Would a child born in a nursing home who was going to be put up for adoption straight away in the late 60's early 70's,would the birth be registered in the biological mothers name?

Hope someone can help.

Kind Regards

Ange

[Berlin-Bob]

Hi Ange,

Little Nell has collected some topic links about adoption.

You can find it under Adoption in the

RootsChat Lexicon / Topic Catalogue ^{(click here)}

Have a read there first, you might find the answer in one of them.

Good luck,
Bob

[suzard]

Hi Ange,

I assume you mean 1960's/70's

You will get good information from the link Bob has given

but i can say for definate the child would have been registered in he mother's name - if the mother was married it would be her married name but would also state her maiden  name
If she was unmarried the father's name could only be entered if he was present at registration.

When the child was adopted the adoption order/certificate would be used instead of the original birth cert-but the original birth reg would not be removed from records

Suz

[lostnconfused]

Yes sorry I did mean the 1960's and 1970's.
Well I know the father didn't know about the baby and the mother was unmarried so I'll have to have another look thank you for your help.

Regards Ange

[lostnconfused]

One other thing if anyone reading this knows the name of the homes unmarried mothers went too in the Manchester area or where I could find this out I would be very grateful.

Thanks

Ange

[suzard]

I only know of one in the 1960's -but I am sure there were others
Lorna lodge
133 Barlow Moor Rd
Didsbury
Manchester

Suz

[Lyndon]

I only know of one in the 1960's -but I am sure there were others
Lorna lodge
133 Barlow Moor Rd
Didsbury
Manchester

Suz

There are 21 others listed in 'Where to Find Adoption Records' by Georgina Stafford, published by British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering. Let me know if you would like me to email the list to you.

Lyndon

[lostnconfused]

That would be great thank you

Thank you so much.

Regards Ange

[Lyndon]

List emailed directly. I hope you find what you are looking for.

I don't know if this is relevant, but I know of at least one case from the 60s where the mother was encouraged to modify her name slightly when registering the birth. This may or may not have been common prtactice. Some well meaning, but totally misguided social worker, clearly thought it was helpful to make tracing difficult.

Lyndon