Thread: Ethel Glady's Pullen

Hi, got another problem if anyone can help, A friend has asked if I could find out anything about her son in laws Grandmother,it seems she was adopted, her name maiden was

Ethel Gladys Pullen born in 1904, and I have found her age7yrs on in Edmonton, Middlesex, with a Richard Pullen and a Martha Charlotte Pullen,they were from Shoreditch and Bermondsey London, but she was from Surrey Surbiton, is there any way I can find out her original name and parents at all, any help would be great,

If you contact ADOPTION someone there may be able to help

Hi Valijay,



Adoption as we know it in the U.K did not start until the 1920's. Before then, children were either bought up by a relative or given to someone that had more money and was able to give the child a better life. Unless, the birth mother eventually told someone about her child, this is a very difficult area for genealogy research.

Thanks girls, I thought it might be a bit tricky this one, I found the Pullen family that had Richard Pullen in the adoptive father in the 1891 census, a very large family and the father was also called Richard and the mother Eliza, there were three girls together and then in 1901 census two more girls were added,, the eldest one was called Eliza, now the other two Jessie and Louisa were both in service later but I cannot find anything on Eliza, because I did say to her that that due to the war and illness from diseases, there were lots of parents died early and left children, which in lots of cases the family took them in and raised them.this was why I was trying to find Eliza,