Hello,
Do you think your grandmother was born in the UK? Adoption in the UK wasn't formalised until the mid 1920s so it's unlikey to find any documentation as before this children were just taken on by the adoptive family as they're own. Do you have anymore information about her?
Hi...thanks for answering my post. My father's last name was CHUTE, and I believe his history dates back to Lionel Chute. As far as his mother goes, Alice Maud Richmond Phillips, I really would like to know who her parentage was. I do not know how to get that information. All I have is her birthdate, which was July 30, 1894. Sussex, Essex or Middlesex are possible leads, as to where she may have been born.
I found this bit of info...thought it odd, as to have a person with the exact same name as my grandmother. Perhaps she was born out of wedlock???...as her full name I repeat was "Alice Maud Richmond-Phillips"
THE LONDON GAZETTE, 9 SEPTEMBER, 1941
Re ALICE MAUD PHILLIPS, Deceased.
Pursuant to the Trustee Act, 1925.
ALL persons having any claim against the estate
of Alice Maud Phillips late of i, Holly Lea, Longfield,
Urmston, near Manchester (who died on the 6th day
of February 1940, and whose Will was proved in the
Birmingham District Registry on the igth day of
April 1940 by Walter Thomas White and Frank
Davies the executors therein
Thanks so much for your help...it is truly appreciated.
