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Margery was the mother of my father-in-law, Harold Anthony Harrison Lees, who was born on 30th September 1924. His Birth Certificate states that he was born at: 54 Leigham Court Road, Streatham, Wandsworth, London., and gave his mothers home address as 71 High Street, Stamford. Lincolnshire.
Other receords show that during December 1925 he was at The Mission of Hope, Birdhurst Lodge, South Croydon.
Any information would be gratefully receieved and treated confidentially.

The Mission of Hope
was a Christian charity.
It helped the children
of unmarried mothers

http://www.christianfamilyconcern.org.uk/history.htm

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If you look about halfway down, there's a question there from someone about The Mission of Hope, Birdhurst Lodge, South Croydon, and some answers that might be helpful. One person mentions getting access to records about his birth there in 1945.

54 Leigham Court Road, Streatham, was the original address of the maternity home, it seems:

http://www.christianfamilyconcern.org.uk/history.htm

Aha; that site says:

The last children’s home was closed in 1989 and the adoption agency closed in 1992. The adoption records were transferred to the care of Croydon Social Services. Their address is:
Fostering & Adoption Service
Croydon Social Services
Taberner House
Park Lane
Croydon
SURREY
CR9 2BA


Is it Margery Lees you are wanting to learn about? Might this be her birth?

Name: Margery Elizabeth Lees
Year of Registration: 1907
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Stamford
County: Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland
Volume: 7a
Page: 333

There are some Lee-s, but no Lees-s, in Stamford in 1901. I haven't checked for mistranscriptions or to see the addresses. In 1818, there was a Lees on High Street, Stamford, but not at the address you have (street numbering could change in 20 years).

You can search the 1901 census by address at

http://www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

71 high street, stamford, produces no results.

But it shows at google maps as being an address.

Some ideas!

if you google her address it shows as a hotel

And an extremely fancy shmancy one!!

http://www.georgehotelofstamford.com/

"The George of Stamford is one of England's greatest coaching inns."

That's "71 St. Martins" -- is that the same as 71 High Street? Other sites seem to say the latter.

Possibly she was an employee who lived on the premises?

And the chance that the hotel would have personnel records from 80 years ago would be ...