Hi everyone
My great-grandmother, Ilta, told my mother that she was adopted. She told her a tale of her mother dying during childbirth and her father being killed in an ambush in a foreign land (my mother cannot remember where, perhaps Afghanistan or India).
Thing is, I recently managed to get a copy of Ilta's birth certificate. It shows her birth date as 13/08/1879 and is dated less than two months later, 06/10/1879. The parents named are (as she claims) her adopted parents...
So here are my questions...
Do the "parents" names on the birth certificate legally have to be the biological parents?
Or is it possible that Ilta's mother did die in childbirth while Ilta's father was away in a foreign land. The child was then cared for by the village vicar and his wife until Ilta's father returned. Word then reached them of the father's death and they then chose to adopt her???
Or do you think that my great-grandmother made it all up???
I'm beginning to favour the latter...
Any help would be appreciated?
My great-grandmother, Ilta, told my mother that she was adopted. She told her a tale of her mother dying during childbirth and her father being killed in an ambush in a foreign land (my mother cannot remember where, perhaps Afghanistan or India).
Thing is, I recently managed to get a copy of Ilta's birth certificate. It shows her birth date as 13/08/1879 and is dated less than two months later, 06/10/1879. The parents named are (as she claims) her adopted parents...
So here are my questions...
Do the "parents" names on the birth certificate legally have to be the biological parents?
Or is it possible that Ilta's mother did die in childbirth while Ilta's father was away in a foreign land. The child was then cared for by the village vicar and his wife until Ilta's father returned. Word then reached them of the father's death and they then chose to adopt her???
Or do you think that my great-grandmother made it all up???
I'm beginning to favour the latter...
Any help would be appreciated?
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