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If his mother's name IS Gladys then this is a possibility for her birth:-

Name: Gladys Hartley
Year of Registration: 1898
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Sheffield
County: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire - West Riding
Volume: 9c
Page: 679

Kath. x

1901 Census with Gladys and Horace ??

Address 2 Upper Well Royd
Civil Parish Halifax
Rural District
Town or Village or Hamlet Warley
Ecclesiastical Parish Warley St John
Parliamentary Borough or Division Sowerby
County Borough, Municipal Borough or Urban District Halifax
Administrative County Yorkshire
Householder 1
Name Charlotte Ada Hartley
Relation to Head of Family Wife
Condition as to Marriage Married
Age Last Birthday 36
Sex Female
Profession or Occupation
Employment Status
Where Born Newport Salop
Language
Infirmity
Householder 2
>>>>>Name Gladys Wine Hartley
Relation to Head of Family Daughter
Condition as to Marriage Single
Age Last Birthday 12
Sex Female
Profession or Occupation
Employment Status
Where Born Yorks Halifax
Language
Infirmity
Householder 3
>>>>Name Horace Ran Hartley
Relation to Head of Family Son
Condition as to Marriage Single
Age Last Birthday 9
Sex Male
Profession or Occupation
Employment Status
Where Born Yorks Halifax
Language
Infirmity
Householder 4
Name Lovel Hartley
Relation to Head of Family Head
Condition as to Marriage Married
Age Last Birthday 36
Sex Male
Profession or Occupation Worsted Warp Dresser
Employment Status
Where Born Yorks Sowerby
Language
Infirmity

This is Horace's marriage:-

Name: Horace Hartley
Spouse: Maria Bownes
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1921
Registration district: Sheffield
Registration county (inferred): Yorkshire - West Riding
Volume Number: 9c
Page Number: 1403

This certificate would give you Horace's father's name.

Kath. x

This looks like his birth - easy to find on FreeBMD

Births Sep 1920 (>99%)
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Hartley Joseph T Hartley Skipton 9a 87

Is this your father's birth:-

Name: Joseph T Hartley
Mother's Maiden Surname: Hartley
Date of Registration: Jul Aug Sep 1920
Registration district: Skipton
Registration county: Yorkshire
Volume Number: 9a
Page Number: 87

If you buy this certificate you will be certain of his mother's full name.

I wonder if the middle initial "T" in his name has been mis-transcribed as a "T" instead of an "S" (for Samuel) as in old fashioned writing a "T" and an "S" can sometimes look similar.

Kath. x

My father was adopted but was born I think in either Skipton or Halifax in September 1920. His birth mother was called Gladys Hartley or so I'm told and he was adopted by her brother Horace who was married to Maria Bownes. They lived in Sheffield. Does anyone know anything about my father, his birth mother or his adoptive parents