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« on: Friday 10 January 20 17:38 GMT (UK) »
My Gt Aunt insisted that she was adopted.  I am the legal representative of her Estate and am being asked for a certificate for said adoption from Bona Vacantia.  Thing is, we know she wasn't adopted, I have her birth certificate.  She spent 37 years in an Asylum in Bridgend.  Am I right in assuming that registration of adoptions didn't start until 1927 anyway?  She also insisted that she had changed her name by Deed Poll to Thomas and included that as a middle name Gladys Thomas Smith?
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Re: Adoption
« Reply #1 on: Friday 10 January 20 17:51 GMT (UK) »
http://www.adoptionsearchreunion.org.uk/search/righttosearch/lawbasics.htm

Presume she never married?

Was she illegitimate?

How old was she when she went into the asylum and under what circumstances was she admitted/detained

What name is on her asylum records
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Re: Adoption
« Reply #2 on: Friday 10 January 20 18:05 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the speedy response.  There were 5 siblings.  John Christmas Smith, a bachelor, he was admitted in 1955 and died a few months later.  Then Florence May Smith, spinster, who was admitted 1951.  Gladys, spinster, went in a day after her brother in 1955 age 57.  I was told they were there, poor Florence was in Parc hospital which was the worse.  I assumed the two girls had died in the 50's so was very shocked and upset to find Florence died in 1984 and Gladys in 1992.  My grandmother was sibling number 4 and sibling 5 Winifred Mary died at 11 months.  So my grandmother would have been the heir to Gladys estate.... which would amount really to zilch but was put on the Bona Vacantia list.  She always claimed she was adopted, that she had changed her name by Deed Poll and sadly told as many people as possible that she was an illegitimate child of Royalty.  I have now found out they were living in terrible conditions in a cottage.  Her name was Gladys Smith on birth cert, 1939 census and death cert.  She even survived the outbreak of Smallpox on her ward in 1962 which killed 14 inmates!
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Re: Adoption
« Reply #3 on: Friday 10 January 20 20:48 GMT (UK) »
You have her birth cert & the family details. Given her mental history I doubt adoption issues would be pursued if you put the facts in writing
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« Reply #4 on: Friday 10 January 20 21:58 GMT (UK) »
BV are not the easiest people to please but then I guess they have to be very careful!  Will start afresh in the morning me thinks but thanks for your help!  I will write the history out, including her being very lucky when the Smallpox hit the ward.  14 of the women died on there from it in 1962! There is another bit to her story.  Her father might have told her that his father was from Oxford... they happened to live next door to the King family  ::).  Also, the Royal family used to go shooting in the grounds of the Manor house he worked in.  Stories we are told or tell are very real when a child ha ha
Brown/Smith/Hunt/Edwards/David/Cawsey/Stokes/Jenkins/Jackson/
GLAMORGANSHIRE/MONMOUTHSHIRE
Brown/Smith/Harding/Pyatt/
SOMERSET
Bodman/Ledbury/Hancock/Morris/
WILTSHIRE
Elsmore/Ellsmore/Long/Heath/Morgan
FOREST OF DEAN