Is he their adopted Son ?

[Guest]

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=7619&iid=LNDRG10_165_169-0332&fn=Sidney&ln=Harrison&st=r&ssrc=pt_t6737403_p275840194_g32768&pid=28939603

Sidney Harrison aged 1, am I reading it right ??? he is the adopted Son of James and Caroline Attwood ???
If so where would the Birth be registered as Forest Hill as far as I know isn't in Kent?? and I cannot find a Birth for 1870 for a Sidney Harrison .
Thanks

[Mary from Italy]

It certainly says "an adopted son".

This is the only likely birth I can see on FreeBMD:

Births Sep 1870
HARRISON Sydney Spencer Lewisham 1d 806

Lewisham is in Kent, and Forest Hill's nearby.

[congletonian]

Hi Val yes it does say "an adopted son" in the occupation column.I found a Sydney Harrison born j/a/s quarter in gtr london/Kent in1870 and also found Forest hills is in NW Kent. Hope this helps.

Liz

sorry I forgot to put his middle name Spencer

[Guest]

thank you both very much , I wondered why he did not have the same surname ??? if he was adopted???
Must see if I can find who his mother was.

[Guest]

how sad now I know his proper name have found his death in 1872 .

[Mary from Italy]

Official adoption didn't begin until 1927. And they may have kept his original surname because he was the child of a family member.

[Guest]

thanks Mary thats interesting maybe I will find his parents??

[Jessbowbag]

pre 1927 , all 'adopted child' meant was ''a child were have taken in and regard as our own''.

The early adoption acts, were what started record keeping of who went where