Glasgow Twins given up for Adoption c.1953

[dawnsh]

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.

[TheLittleGarden]

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.

[Forfarian]

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.

[Forfarian]

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.