262 St Margarets Hostel to adoption?

[ceejillydee]

I am attempting to gain information from the following facts:

Born: 15 June 1945 at 262 St Margarets Unmarried Mothers Hostel. Hackney
Register of birth issued.

Adopted: 19 March 1946 at Friends House Juvenile Court
Certificate of Entry in the Adopted Children Register issued.

My question is, is there anyway I can find out where I was kept between these dates. I am now at a dead end and need some guidance.

[LizzieW]

Have you got your adoption file, that would normally say where you were, probably in a foster home or maybe your mother tried to keep you and you were with her for a time.

[ceejillydee]

Thanks LizzieW for the info.
I haven't got an adoption file but so far understand that files issued by Friends House Juvenile Court. Euston are now being held by London Metropolitan Archives which I have just applied for and hopefully they will confirm either way. If there is a file I'm not sure what I would expect to find written....it could be exciting.
As far as staying with my birth Mother that would not have been an option.  Her husband returned from Europe at the end of WW11 and found her expecting me.......so I was banished.

[dawnsh]

You might also want to consider approaching the General Register Office for a copy of the file they hold on you

www.gov.uk/adoption-records

Because of your date of birth, you will need to attend a counselling session organised by both the LMA and GRO before access to your file is granted.

[ceejillydee]

Thanks Dawnsh
I've already gone down that route years ago when the Children Act 1975 Section 26 became in force.  So I have already been interviewed by a counsellor in 1978 and contact with my mother was made but it wasn't a happy conclusion. The GRO did not send me any files at the time.

[dawnsh]

I would be tempted to ask again following the passage of time.