Ancestry search following on from Pennock - Maureen Cecilia

[edam]

Hi Trouvere, over here!

Let me know if that link works - I'll let you have the details if not.

The link is to the 1901 census - not sure that's what you intended? Will follow up the church thing, can't think why that hasn't occurred to me before. You see, you've inspired me!

Edam, assuming you mother's birth mother was Irish and very possibly Catholic, is it possible that she might have had your mother baptised before she was adopted? I know in Ireland in the 1940's it was common for babies to be baptised when they were only a few days old - might be another lead....

Ooooh that is an idea, thanks KTeePee. Would be very strange as my mother was brought up CofE but had endless run-ins with her very Catholic MIL.

I would say that aspect is unusual Edam (that her adoptive parents were CofE if the birth mother was Catholic) - unless the birth mother had no strong views on the matter (but I could be wrong as I am going by what would have been the norm in Ireland). The main reason that adoption legislation was delayed in Ireland until the 1950s was because of pressure from the Catholic Church - who felt it was better for a child to be raised in an orphanage by nuns than run the risk of being adopted by a non-catholic couple

Yeah, sadly that doesn't surprise me. Those nice people who ran the Magdelene laundries IIRC.