I agree with Maggie. I can't imagine any f amily that would allow their daughter to register an illegitimate birth. I also know that the church actively lied and connived and as Maggie says, registered (if at all) the babies in the adoptive parents names, saved so much bother and was a very good earner for the church.connived
Baptisms might show something different but it seems unlikely. Illegitimate children belonged to the State in Ireland so the State (i.e. The Church) could do what it liked with them.
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