Adoption
Before the Adoption Act of 1930 there were no legal procedures, and a child might assume another man’s name. If the mother of an illegitimate child subsequently married another man, the child might have been known by the stepfather’s surname in later records without any change being made to the birth record.
Records are held at the National Archives of Scotland http://www.nas.gov.uk/default.asp are closed to access for 100 years. Adoptees wishing to register a search for birth parents can do so at http://www.birthlink.org.uk/
Records are held at the National Archives of Scotland http://www.nas.gov.uk/default.asp are closed to access for 100 years. Adoptees wishing to register a search for birth parents can do so at http://www.birthlink.org.uk/