Can anybody tell me please where I should go to look (i.e. websites) for the official details of 2 brothers and their sister being fostered - names all known etc. Their parents went looking for work and never returned to the village for them - they were believed to have been murdered. The children were then fostered by the widow of a local gamekeeper. In 1891 census they were with their parents and in the 1901 one were being fostered. Many thanksSue Hope _________________________________________________________________ Telly addicts unite! http://www.searchgamesbox.com/tvtown.shtml

Hi Sue I wish you well with your search but doubt you will find anything It was a private arrangement and unlikely to be recorded unless there was some possibility of a later dispute regarding property or title to it, there was no official body as such for it then Adoption did not start officially until 1927 I would ask at the Leicestershire Records Office but suspect they have nothing on it, its always worth asking though Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > Can anybody tell me please where I should go to look (i.e. websites) for > the official details of 2 brothers and their sister being fostered - names > all known etc. Their parents went looking for work and never returned to > the village for them - they were believed to have been murdered. The > children were then fostered by the widow of a local gamekeeper. In 1891 > census they were with their parents and in the 1901 one were being > fostered. > Many thanksSue Hope

Sue Hope wrote: > Can anybody tell me please where I should go to look (i.e. > websites) for the official details of 2 brothers and their sister > being fostered - names all known etc. Their parents went looking > for work and never returned to the village for them - they were > believed to have been murdered. The children were then fostered by > the widow of a local gamekeeper. In 1891 census they were with > their parents and in the 1901 one were being fostered. There wouldn't be any official records back then. It was an informal arrangement between the parents and, usually, a member of the extended family. It might have been a friend or neighbour. If you know the names of the parents, then you can look on www.freebmd.org.uk or one of the pay sites for their deaths and get the certificates. That will prove one way or another whether they were indeed murdered, or simply never came back for the children. You have a fairly small time frame to check.