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Thanks for the prompt responses.

What I would like to try and find out is whether he was given to a children's' home or placed into some form of foster care for the five years prior to his adoption.

Also, to find out what subsequently happened to Marion Ada. Did she marry? When did she die?

It would help if I could find electoral registers for Seabrook Road in Hythe where dad was born but I don't seem to be able to find those.

So any suggestions with the above would be gratefully received.

Thanks
Tim

unfortunately, in the last available census in 1911, Marion was still living in Leicester where she was born

Street address: 100 Pool Rd Leicester
Registration district: Leicester
Charles Edward Hart 28
Olga Louisa Hart 28
Marian Ada Hart 6
Dorothy Ethel Hart 5
Phyllis Olga Hart 4

Births Sep 1904
Hart Marion Ada Leicester 7a 311

so looking for boys/young men named Bloor nearby her or even in Elham would probably not prove fruitful, if what you are hoping is to identify your dad's father

Hi Tim, first, if the name Bloor doesn't appear anywhere in his mother's family (like her mother's birth surname, sometimes passed on to grandchildren), it is indeed a good assumption that it was his father's surname.

This was very common, and back through the 19th century (my great-grandmother's first child was named this way).

Not sure what you mean by verifying his birth certificate. If you don't have the one he obtained, you can get another copy.

Have you traced his mother and her family at all? What is it in particular that you would like help with?

Welcome to GR Tim.

Derek B Hart in the England & Wales, Birth Index, 1916-2005
Name:Derek B Hart
Mother's Maiden Surname:Hart
Date of Registration:Apr-May-Jun 1926
Registration district:Elham
Inferred County:Surrey, Kent
Volume Number:2a
Page Number:1921

Hi. I'm new the site and to researching my past.

My dad was born in 1926, adopted in 1931, and died in 2006. He went through some process with Somerset House back in the nineties and with his adoption certificate he obtained a birth certificate.

Is there any way I can verify his birth certificate? Also, can I find out when he was given up for adoption and where he might have lived between his birth and adoption?

I should add that his name on the birth certificate is Derek Bloor (Hart) but on the adoption certificate his middle name is omitted. His mother's name is Marion Ada Hart. There is no entry for father and it has been suggested (very reasonably) that Bloor may have been his father's surname.

Many thanks in advance.
Tim