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Thank you, thank you for all your help. Still trying to take it all in! Will find what info I still have and pass post it.

As you know she was a brush maker, I assume you do have a copy of the birth certificate.

Please tell us all the information on it - full name as stated on the cert, address, etc.
Any little thing might be a significant clue.

Found birth certificate for Jean Lang:
B. 26.07.31 148 Redland Road. UD?
Jean Evelyn Lang.
Mother: Evelyn Margery Lang, Brush Maker of 6 Welton Walk, Lodge Road, Kingswood, Bristol.
Nothing under father.

Ah, now that we know her full name, that does make Kay's find seem very likely to be correct.

Impossible to prove conclusively, as we don't know the age of Jean's mother, but otherwise it all seems to fit.

That fits with the birth, marriages, death and 1939 register posted by various helpers

If you felt like getting a copy of the cert of the marriage to Cook, you may find - if you're lucky - that her occupation is the same.

Re 148 Redland Road:

http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/list/MH3.shtml

Thank you.

I will now try and work out where to go from here, ie how my mother was adopted, because I believe it was never done legally, done through a Dr. but that is about all I know.

It certainly wasn't done officially, or you wouldn't have been able to get her full birth cert.

Adopted children's records are confidential and only a 'short' birth cert can be obtained in later years

It will be legal if it has the word , written Adopted on the right hand side of the birth certificate,even if it was an open adoption or private one.it would still go through the legal process,,,,,,

I didn't know that, thank you.