In a message dated 22/08/2009 22:37:43 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: All i know is that she was born in 1910, but i don't think she was adopted until around 1932 as that is when her mother and adopted father married. i'm having trouble locating any details of her birth record Hi She may have just taken her adoptive father's name without an y official papers. It is quite legal to do so unless there is perhaps a matter of inheritance. JUDY ELKINGTON [N. Derbyshire, England] www.elkingtonfamily.com [email protected] www.one-name.org/profiles/elkington.html