I'm searching for a record and have come up with nothing, I don't know if others could help, I'm trying to find a birth certificate, it might not be possible on the internet, now the record is for my nanna, she was called Nesta Mary Eunice Smith, she was born March 22nd 1931 and died in 2003, and worked in the Elba factory in Swansea, now the difficult part, she was adopted 3 times, her birth surname was Guppy, and I don't know if her forenames were changed after the adoptions.
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Are you sure she was adopted three times? That would be extremely unusual and desperately sad. Have you found her on the 1939 register?
Unfortunately there is no legal way to link a birth identity with a new adoptive identity unless you have some personal knowledge. I think it's unlikely her forenames would be changed three times but you never know.
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Originally posted by Olde Crone Holden View PostAre you sure she was adopted three times? That would be extremely unusual and desperately sad. Have you found her on the 1939 register?
Unfortunately there is no legal way to link a birth identity with a new adoptive identity unless you have some personal knowledge. I think it's unlikely her forenames would be changed three times but you never know.
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Originally posted by Olde Crone Holden View PostThe Salvation Army will not help with matters where adoption is involved.
How do you know her birth name? Were the adoptions within the birth family?
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If she was born in 1931, Nesta would have been 8 years old when WW2 started. Perhaps, like many other children, she was evacuated and spent some of her school years boarding out with other families i.e. informally "fostered" rather than adopted.
Have you seen her marriage certificate to Mr Renzi? You need to check her marital status at the time of this marriage - single, divorced, widowed. Alternatively, the birth certificates of her children should indicate her maiden name.
JayLast edited by Janet in Yorkshire; 13-08-16, 17:16.Janet in Yorkshire
Genealogists never die - they just swap places in the family tree
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Originally posted by Janet in Yorkshire View PostCan you give any more information, please? You say she worked in Swansea - was she born in Wales?
Did she have any brothers or sisters? Aunts/uncles?
What surname did she use when she married and died?
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I'm not sure about Brothers/Sisters and Aunts/Uncles, but she married a Benito Renzi in 1956, she was Nesta Mary Eunice Smith before marriage and became Renzi, when she died she was still Renzi.
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Originally posted by Olde Crone Holden View PostI think you will have to get her marriage certificate to see who she says was her father and hopefully she will be on the 1939 register with him.
Even if she was not with the Smiths in 1939 it will give us somewhere to start. Otherwise it will be impossible.
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