Adoption query

[Foxyloxy]

Confused! Nosy? Maybe just over thinking!

When I was younger I was always told that my mums cousin was " adopted" and the story went they had three boys and wanted a girl so adopted one
Their boys were born 1935, 1939 and 1943, she was "adopted" in 1944

Recently I was doing some research and came across her name on the freebmd which showed her given name and surname as I know it (family name), the correct quarter of birth/year ( I know her birthday) and gives the maiden name of the mother.
My great uncle was married to someone whose name was not what is on her birth index. I checked the index for the three older sons, they are down with "correct" mothers maiden name( his wife)

So that got me thinking unless it is a transcription mistake could she be my great uncles child and a child of an affair he had with a. n. other?

 

[stockpot]

That is possible, your great uncle could have had an affair and he and his wife adopted the child but it is also possible that she was the child of any other relative of your great uncle who shared the same surname.

For instance maybe he had a brother who's wife had just had a little girl to add to a family of six girls and it would suit everyone for your great uncle and his wife to adopt this child.

You would really have to get the certificate and investigate more before you could say that what may be a perfectly innocent man had an affair !

Elaine

 

[Foxyloxy]

Thanks Elaine

You are correct to prove/disprove I would need to apply for her birth cert.

What I have written here is limited as she is still alive so I didn't want to invade anyone's privacy, just clarify a logical possibility and of course logic doesn't come into family history research however we as humans like things to be logical

My Great Uncles 'history/life' decisions before and after the so called "adoption" leads me to think as I do.