Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-06-08
Order of Publication

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In the Matter of the Adoption of
Judith Elder de Lima and Vir-
ginia Elder de Lima, infants.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
No. 9O57 Equity.
The object of this suit is to pro-
cure the adoption of Judith Elder de
Lima and Virginia Elder de Lima
and to change their names. The
bill in substance states that the
petitioners, Everard F. Perkins and
Enid E. Perkins, are residents of
Montgomery County, in the State of
Maryland, and are husband and
wife; that on the 1st day of March,
A. ID. 1917 said Enid E. Perkins
was married to certain Ernest A.
de Lima; that there were born to
the said Enid E. Perkins and the
said Ernest A. de Lima two daugh-
tiers, to wit: Judith Elder de Lima,
now aged nineteen years and Vir-
ginia Elder de Lima, now aged fif-
teen years; that on the 18th day
of January, A. ID. 1880 the said Enid
E. Perkins was divorced from the
said Ernest A. de Lima and was
granted the custody and care of the
said children; that on the 23rd day
of September, A. D. 1888 the said
Enid E. Perkins was married to said
Everard E. Perkins; that from the
time of the aforesaid divorce until
the time of the marriage of the
petitioners the aforesaid children
were in the complete custody and
care of the said Enid E. Perkins
and since her marriage to the said
Everard F. Perkins the aforesaid
children have resided with the
petitioners and under their custody
and care; that the said Ernest A.
de Lima since the aforesaid divorce
has remarked and has several chill
dren and is now residing in the City
of Cali, Country of Colombia, South
America; that the petitioner, Everard
F. Perkins, desires to adopt the
aforesaid children as his own chill
dren and to make them his heirs-at-
law, to have conferred upon them
the same status as they would have
if they had been born to said pc
titioners of their said marriage, and
to legally change their names to
Judith Elder Perkins and Virginia
Elder Perkins; that said Enid E.
Perkins, who is the mother and nat
ural guardian Of the said minors,
gives her permission to such adoption
without waving her rights as the
mother of the said minors, it being
the purpose and intention of the said
petitioners to have conferred upon
the said minors the same status as
they would have if they had been
born to said petitioners OF their said
marriage; that the said Judith Elder
de Lima and Virginia Elder de Lima
have expressed their desire for the
petitioner Everard F. Perkins to
adopt them and they are of sufficient
intelligence and capacity to give an
understanding assent to said desire;
that said petitioners have had no
children born of their marriage and
they believe and allege that the best
interest and welfare of the said
Judith Elder de Lima and the said
Virginia Elder de Lima will be pro-
NOTED by the passage of decree de-
claring them the adopted children of
the petitioner, Everard F. Perkins.
The bill then prays that a decree
NAV be passed legalizing the adop- ,
ton of the said Judith Elder de Lima
and Virginia Elder de Lima by Ever
ard F. Perkins, and making them the
heirs-at-law of the said Everard F.
Perkins, without releasing, waving
or otherwise affecting the rights OF
Enid E. Perkins, as the mother OF
the said minors, and comforting upon
the said minors the same status as
thew would have if they had been
horn to the petitioners of their said
marriage; and that the names Of
said children may be changed TO
Judith Elder Perkins and Virginia
Elder Perkins; and for general relief:
It is .thereupon, this 18th day OF
May, A. D. 1889, by the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County, as a
Court of Equity, ordered that the
petitioners by causing a copy OF
This order to be inserted in some
newspaper published in said Mont
0omery County once in each of four
successive weeks before the 17th day
of June, give notice to Ernest A.
do Lima. who resides in the City OF
Cali. Country of Colombia, South
America. and who is nonresident
a. tbe State of Maryland, OF the
object and substance Of this petition,
warning him to appear in this Court,
=, nerson or by solicitor, on or before
tha Ard day of July next, to show
canse. If any he has, why a decree
ought not to be passed as prayed.
STEDMAN PRESCOTT,
Judge of the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County.