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Thank you for that link. My wife also found m which gives a good explanation of the history of adoption. Unusually for the time my great great grandparents only had one child themselves and then an adoption some years later. My current thinking, taking into account there appears to be no family conn...

I think I am going to answer my own question "There was no legal adoption as we know it now before the 1926 Adoption Act was implemented", so I guessing there must me some family connection. I will carry on investigating. Thank you for your help

Unfortunately I have no contact with any member of adopted members family and a DNA may be skewed by the fact that the adopted child later married a relation of my maternal grandmother. My initial thought was the child was in some way related to great great grandparents, but as mentioned earlier my ...

Hello Everyone. I am looking into our family history. In the 1901 Census one of my relatives households lists a 1 yr old boy as "Adopted". The boy is also listed in the 1911 and 1921 Census, so this was a long term arrangement. Looking into the history I see that the birth mother was a you...