Hi Carol,
If it is the given name was changed it could be as simple as a change of
mind after registration and a request to change a child's name. If the
family name was changed then it may be acceptance by the wife or husband
of a child born to their spouse in WA that was not their child.
The child may have been born to one of the grandparents siblings or
other relatives and was fostered by the grandparents.
You can apply for the original registration if they are deceased or with
their permission if they are alive.
My experience of WA adoptions in mid 1970s was that the court order was
issued about a year after the placement of the child with the adopting
parents. A replacement birth entry is then issued with the child's new
name and the adopting parents as the parents. The birth date remains but
the registration number is for the year of the court order so adoption
birth registrations are obvious.
Until the court order the child remains a ward of the court and is
fostered pending adoption without financial support from the state.
Permission is not required for baptism or inoculations but any surgical
procedure is referred to the director of child welfare.
At the age of 18 the adoptee can request the original birth certificate
and in most circumstances this is supplied although the name of the
father is often missing. The father's name can only be on a birth
registration and certificate of a child born to a single mother if the
father signs a declaration that he is the father.
In the case of married women the child is assumed to be husbands unless
he objects.
There may be other explanations.
Marg.
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