I can understand that the birth record might remain the same, but what about later records. I have a death cert. re a great uncle's death in 1940 and the informant is a J Stack Haydon. neice. I have no idea who she is. However an elderly cousin of my father in the US remembers a child was adopted by a single sister of this uncle c 1910-15. Child was Josephine Stack Haydon. I have looked through the GRO several times and cannot find any records of this child anywhere, marriages and deaths. Also there is the death record in the newspaper in Bath, Somerset in 1934 when the aunt died. She was listed as Mary Ellen Stack Haydon. The Stack is only mentioned there, in no wills etc is she so named. So I have presumed the "neice" put the notice in the paper. Then just for a further bit of info is the fact that the aunt became a Catholic at some point, was at Colwich Convent on the 1901 census. I had hoped to find JSH on a voting list in 1940 etc but there weren't any such lists in the war. Any ideas of where else I could look for her. All these events/records seem to have taken place in or near Bath, but I had wondered if the child could have been from the Midlands. beth now in NS