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*The subject of the below India List post<ref>Griffin, Gail. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200811034201/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/15663584/ Adoption MUNROE/OCONNOR/WATSON families] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 3 February 1998, archived.</ref> was born in the Eden Maternity Home, Calcutta in 1917. She was then taken to St Vincent’s Home Kidderpore (Calcutta)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150921221504/http://www.childrenareangels.org/contents/newsletter3web/3stvincent.htm St Vincent’s Home Kidderpore] (Calcutta) (archived webpage)</ref>, run by a Roman Catholic order, from where she was adopted at the age of six weeks.
*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>Robertson, Ian. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190406090150/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/6413611/ Birth Parent Search fo MEIKLE and EDWARDS] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 14 January 2006, archived.</ref>
 
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