On 11/05/2014 16:08, Michael Allbrook wrote: > A thought. If you discover details of his emigration it will tell > you the names of his fellow travellers. He might have been with > another family who had offered him a new life, with his parents > agreement. This was after all in the days before formal adoption > was introduced. This would not involve anybody except the two > families Thank you for the thought. I've wondered about this as well. If his mother was persuaded to give up her son and his new family did emigrate in 1880, I'm unlikely to find him if he sailing under his new family's name. He knew his birth name, his mother's name and his stepfather's. I'm not sure a 5 year old would know that. -- Connie http://oursalmons.wordpress.com/

But perhaps he kept his birt name to emigrate Michael -----Original Message----- From: middlesex_county_uk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:middlesex_county_uk-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Connie Sent: 12 May 2014 10:49 To: middlesex_county_uk@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MDX] Children's Homes 1875-1880 On 11/05/2014 16:08, Michael Allbrook wrote: > A thought. If you discover details of his emigration it will tell you > the names of his fellow travellers. He might have been with another > family who had offered him a new life, with his parents agreement. > This was after all in the days before formal adoption was introduced. > This would not involve anybody except the two families Thank you for the thought. I've wondered about this as well. If his mother was persuaded to give up her son and his new family did emigrate in 1880, I'm unlikely to find him if he sailing under his new family's name. He knew his birth name, his mother's name and his stepfather's. I'm not sure a 5 year old would know that. -- Connie http://oursalmons.wordpress.com/ . ************************************** Send your List messages using *PLAIN TEXT* and always *DELETE* superfluous old messages in replies. Only include the one to which you are replying. *MEANINGFUL Subject Lines* ie who, what, where, when, with SURNAMES in CAPITAL letters. List Admin can be contacted at: Middlesex_County_UK-admin@rootsweb.com The archives can be found at: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=middlesex_county_uk . ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MIDDLESEX_COUNTY_UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 12/05/2014 11:02, Michael Allbrook wrote: > But perhaps he kept his birt name to emigrate Possibly but I've never found him under either his birth name or his stepfather's.I'm going to pop round to a friend's place and check some of the other ports of entry on Ancestry.com -- Connie http://oursalmons.wordpress.com/