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From: "Helen McD" <>
Subject: RE: [SCT-ROX] Place Name again
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:28:55 +0000


I don't know if the laws were different for Scotland or not but I believe that adoption was first formalised, as a legal process, in 1929 in England etc. It was only after this date that there was supposed to be an element of privacy/secrecy about who adopted children and what happened to them after adoption.

Helen



> From: > Subject: RE: [SCT-ROX] Place Name again> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:22:59 -0200> To: > > I would very much like to hear an answer to the adoption question, also.> Shirley> > > > > From: > Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:50:34 +0100> To: > Subject: [SCT-ROX] Place Name again> > It seems that some of my mail to the list has been lost in cyber space so > I'll try once more.> > I have recently returned from Edinburgh with a few certificates but the> place names are illegible so I hope someone with give me the correct> spelling> > Bonnygate Jedburgh> > Highchestess Roberton Rox> > This is very awkward question I am sure I will get someone will lambasted me> for asking it.> > Would a child be put up for adoption around 1908 would there be any records> of it. The reason I ask, while up in Edinburgh I found a ancestor married> in 1929 a Jane SO & SO, Jane's parents were down as Mr & !
Mrs SO & SO but on> her death in 1985 she had a different mothers name down no father.> I am not perusing the matter, it is just curiosity as to when the adoption> laws came into being in Scotland.> > Bob> > > > ========================!> ======> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx>; > _________________________________________________________________> Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE!> http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/>; > > ==============================> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx>;

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