Petition of Sulewski

Opinion bt

Keller, J.,

These appeals, relating (1) to adoption proceedings in the orphans’ court and (2) to habeas corpus proceedings in the common pleas, are concerned with the same matters of fact and can best be considered in one opinion.

On March 27, 1933, Martin Sulewski and Mary Sulewski, his wife, presented their petition to the Orphans’ Court of Northumberland County, asking for the adoption of Rose Marcques and Dolores Marcques, minor children aged eleven and ten years respectively. The petition set forth that the mother of the children, Susan. Santos, formerly Susan Marcques, resided…