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In fact there are '''no known sources of adoption records''', apart from the fact that baptismal records may occasionally show original name and adopted name, as indicated in these the below India List posts.<ref>India List Murphy, Sylvia. [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india.rootsweb.com/thread/1999-0615661795/0928326886 postAdoptions] dated ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 2 June 1999 and . Retrieved 6 April 2019. Walter, Marion . [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india.rootsweb.com/2013-01thread/520750/1358772138 Adoptions] Rootweb ''Rootsweb India Mailing List '' 21 January 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2019.</ref>

Adoption was a private process, perhaps arranged by a family member, as mentioned in this the below India List post.<ref>India List Railton, David. [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestrycom/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/ththread/read1662298/indiaNICHOLLS/SAVILLE/FRASER/WRIGHT/2010-09MOULTON/1285507993 postREESE] dated ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 26 September 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2019.</ref>

*The subject of this the below India List post<ref>India List Griffin, Gail. [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestrycom/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/ththread/read15663584/indiaAdoption MUNROE/1998-02OCONNOR/0886492485 postWATSON families] dated ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 3 February 1998. Retrieved 6 April 2019.</ref> was born in the Eden Maternity Home, Calcutta in 1917. She was then taken to St Vincent’s Home Kidderpore (Calcutta) <ref>[http://www.childrenareangels.org/contents/newsletter3web/3stvincent.htm St Vincent’s Home Kidderpore] (Calcutta)</ref>, run by a Roman Catholic order, from where she was adopted at the age of six weeks.*This The below India List post regards a child, whose parents were not married to each other, born at the Lady Dufferin Hospital in [[Lucknow]] in 1943. At 10 days old he was removed from the hospital by the Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Lalbagh and placed in the care of a couple who happened to be in Lucknow at the time involved in church work. The family subsequently returned to Scotland. He was never legally adopted.<ref>India List post Robertson, Ian. [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/INDIAindia.rootsweb.com/2006-01thread/6413611/1137231853 Birth Parent Searchfo MEIKLE and EDWARDS] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 14 January 2006. Retrieved 6 April 2019.</ref>