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From: "Dawn Webb" <>
Subject: Re: Adoption & Illgitimacy
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 19:49:28 +1100
References: <EBEBJHNCFOPCOEMGMIKMCENICEAA.Watchdog1@bigpond.com.au>


Sorry folks, it moved a good year ago. It is now based in north Melbourne.
The public reading room is in Casseldon Place, on the corner of Lonsdale and
Spring Streets in the city.

All the best

Dawn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Watchdog" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 9:53 AM
Subject: RE: Adoption & Illgitimacy


> I live in Altona which is in the next suburb from Laverton, basically a
five
> minute drive. I"m not sure if the Public Records Office is still there
but
> I'll try and find out and let you know.
>
> Gale
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter M Thomas [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 1:40 AM
> To:
> Subject: RE: Adoption & Illgitimacy
>
>
>
> there is a fyche of an index of adoptions. When I visited Victoria a few
> years ago, I went to PRO Laverton & inspected the records: very
> informative.
>
>
> Peter THOMAS
> Darwin, Australia
> <>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M Edwards [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, 8 December 2001 07:19
> To:
> Subject: Adoption & Illgitimacy
>
>
> Hi All,
> Just hoping to draw on everyone's amazing knowldege here...
>
> I , quite by accident, as is often the case, discovered that my Gt. Gt.
Aunt
> gave birth to a child when she was 21, whom she named James, but I've
never
> been able to find any trace of him.
> I have tried those few places in Melbourne (where he was born) that
continue
> to hold information about adoptions and Orphanages. Thus, the question I
am
> left with is what sort of people, places/instutions would she have turned
> to, to have him adopted out? I had the notion that the Church would be one
> place and that maybe even people in private enterprise worked as 'baby
> brokers'. I'd like to be able to write something intelligent about this in
> my family tree, rather than just making things up! Therefore, can anyone
> please provide any more details, ideas, recommend some background reading
> etc?
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> Mellissa Edwards
>
>
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