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Ok so now I have found out that I have 8 half brothers and sisters, this just gets worse lol my biological father has had 8 children in a previous relationship and I literally have nothing else to go on but that, where would one start?

Well done. Hope you form a bond that's lasting and fulfilling.

thats great , hope all goes well with your future contact with them :-D

Update

I have managed to find and have contact with 8 of 9 of my brothers and sisters.

Feeling happy :-D

That is good news Simeon :-)

Update.

I have now met with 1 of my brothers (Daniel hazell) and one of my sisters (Emma hazell) and I am in contact with 3 others Andrew hazell, Brian hazell and anthea hazell. They all go by different names now bar Daniel. Feeling excited :-D

No idea if they are right or wrong.

Thank you very much penny that helps a lot.

Selina Anne Mackay
Jan-Feb-Mar 1983 Hull Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire

Emma Louise Mackay
Sep 1992 Hull Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire



Anthea Sylvia Hazell
Dec 1996 Mnn Mckay


Brian Hazell
Oct 1988

and ( but prob too late...)
Katie Louise Mackay
Aug 2000

Jacqueline,

i think thats one of my next steps, it will hopefully make things alot clearer.

i am pretty sure that the ones i have on my tree at the minute are the correct people as they are the only people with the right names that fit in to the right years and are from the right town.

It doesn't matter what the names were after adoption. Their births should still show up in whatever name the mother was using at the time

i am going to presume that finding the 4 children after me is going to be a mammouth task because as they were more than likely taken straight in to care im guessing there adoptive parents have probably changed there names.

As some of the births are registered as Hazell/Hazell, and some as Hazell/Mackay, and/or Mackay/Mackay the situation is far from clear as to who the parents were.

Do you have your own birth cert?

I think it would be £9.25 well spent to get a copy.

All births SHOULD be registered to show the mother's name, if nothing else, regardless of whether they were taken into care, or not.

that makes sense.

i think i may of found 3 of the 4's birth certificates all under Hazell and the mothers maiden name being Mackay.

Simeon,,,,as yours and some siblings are registered in both surnames indicates that the parents wasnt married during this time, so if mr Hazell wasnt the father of further children they could be in the mothers maiden name or their fathers surname name or the surname the mother used at that time.

ok bombshell time.

the brother that i have contact with has just informed me that there were 4 more children after me which makes me 1 of 10! shocked isnt the word and hes going to give me more information when we meet up but he has said that he doesnt know there names.

my question is if the other 4 children were taken straight in to care would they have being still registered with the correct birth certificates ie under the name hazell?

Much appreciated that you spotted that, I didn't even realise it was spelt wrong.

If you hope for connections on here, use the correct spelling of the surname in your tree.

Use the correct spelling, and look for the names in GR trees

I'm going to do that tonight, I've not long seen that it exists. Thank you

Add yourself to the national adoption contact register using the correct spelling of your surname

If your siblings are aware they were adopted, and have any interest in tracing birth family, they may have done the same