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Member Since: February 2008 Posts: 27 Send Message	Hugh	Report	6 Dec 2008 11:56
Member Since: February 2008 Posts: 27 Send Message	I'm trying to trace my deceased mother's true parents. She was adopted at the age of 7 months in 1912. I have the Deed of Adoption which states her parents as being John & Elizabeth Ellen Ritchie. Unfortunately the firm of solicitors who drew up the adoption paper do not keep records that go back that far. I have tried contacting her adoptive parent’s family but without success. I have been unable to find a birth certificate for my mother in either England, Scotland or Wales nor can I trace the Ritchies through BDMs or Census records. I have a copy of her Baptism Certificate which gives her 'Christian' name as Jessie Marion If my mother’s birth was registered somewhere by the Ritchies I think it is unlikely that she would have been given the names Jessie Marion by them. I think that these names were probably given to her by the adoptive parents as her adoptive mother was called Jessie Kezia. Her adoptive parents name was Goodland and they lived in Tiverton, Devon. If anyone could suggest a further avenue of research I would be very grateful. Hugh Stephens