Foundling question?

[MaurizioPerrone]

I recentrly experienced a couple of birth records (between 1870-1890) of foundling having, as annotation, the names of adopting parents.

Interesting discoveries Riccardo! It is unusual situation, but of course everything is possible with the foundling child, it is always unique story for every child. This is the reason it is very important to always seek the original birth act, to search for these annotation.

[ricbru]

yes, I agree and welcome to the forum
bye Riccardo

I recentrly experienced a couple of birth records (between 1870-1890) of foundling having, as annotation, the names of adopting parents.

Interesting discoveries Riccardo! It is unusual situation, but of course everything is possible with the foundling child, it is always unique story for every child. This is the reason it is very important to always seek the original birth act, to search for these annotation.

[Emmy]

It seems there must be many different ways records have been kept. Not long ago I was supplied with a copy of a birth record for a foundling. The midwife who had found this abandoned baby, after contacing an offical at the comune, placed it in the care of a woman who had given her word to look after the child but this was not an 'adoption' certificate The official from the comune gave the child its name and it wasnt the surname of the family who brought the child up as one of their family. One year later the spelling of the child's surname was changed by an official from the comune but it was just some more letters added to the childs original surname given when it had been found. No reason was given for the change that had been made This information was added at the left hand side of the document.

This child's name was also added to the bottom of an index record of the family who areed to look after him but the child had still kept the name given by the official when it was first found and did so for the remainder of its life.
Emmy