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Peter
There isn't an obvious connecetion between your tree and the one that my stepmother is part of. However her Hamer family tree is full of lines (i.e. children) that we haven't followed through so there may be a connection somewhere with the line you are following.
I've attached on the public part of this site a pdf copy of the main lines of the Hamer family that I am connected to via my stepmother. What you'd be looking to do is plug your line in somewhere, not sure where 'though.
I'm also going to send you via private email on this site a copy of the write up I did for my stepmother about the Hamer family tree. I hope you find it interesting, even if you don't manage to make a connection to it. Very interesting bunch of people the Hamers....

Nothing at all I'm afraid. Looks like I'll have to take a trip up there myself when I get the time and dig around the records office.
 

I have recently received a copy of my Great Grandfather's (JB) death certificate (June 1927)
The certificate is witnessed by my Grandfather (AJB), who has shown his relationship to my GGF (JB) as being his "Stepson".
Which was news, to say the least.
Which now leaves me with the problem of trying to trace who my Grandfather (AJB) actually was !!!
In summary, my Grandfather AJB was born in 1891, probably in the West Ham / Poplar (possibly Shoreditch) area of E London.
When AJB got married in 1919 he showed JB as being his father.
I have never managed to trace AJB's birth certificate, either under his surname nor that of the maiden name of his adoptive mother.
My best guess is that my Grandfather was adopted at about the turn of the century - something like 1891 to 1910.
Does anybody have any knowledge of -
> How probable is it that this was an "official" adoption (ie what sort of procedues were in place in the late 1800's, early 1900's) and that some sort of record therefore exists.
> Where the best place to start enquiries about the existence of an official record would be.
To make it more complicated, there are no surviving relatives to ask !!!
Thanks
 

I am researching the families of

Thomas CHARLES (probably born in GLOUCESTER in 1806, unconfirmed), a farrier who lived in BRISTOL until late 1830's, then moved to Shoreditch.

and his wife

Mary JANKINS

First attempts .... aren't dreadfully rainy days good for the concentration .... but the original image of the boy on the right is too far gone really ...