Unusual Birth locations

[pogo99]

Just found a birth certificate of a 1st cousin 3x removed-Place of birth :- train carriage somewhere between Auchencruive and Ayr stations !!!!Anyone else got something out the ordinary?

[Romilly]

Well, - here's one:

My Great, Great Grandmother, Maria Kneller Petty, who was born on the 12th February 1842 at Aldenham Reservoir, Hertfordshire to William Petty & Sarah Petty, (née Jones). The birth was registered by Sarah Petty, who gave her address as "Aldenham Reservoir."

Hopefully she wasn't Born actually 'in' the Reservoir :-)  William Petty was working as a Carpenter at the Reservoir at the time.

Romilly.

[cristeen]

Much more recently, a girl I met at university had on her birth certificate 'Tent at foot of Mount Kilimanjaro'

[Romilly]

Much more recently, a girl I met at university had on her birth certificate 'Tent at foot of Mount Kilimanjaro'

I wonder what her Nationality was recorded as? I can remember a girl I was at school with, who was Born in Singapore, because her Father was stationed there as an Army Officer, had great difficulty obtaining a British Passport.

Romilly.

[andrewalston]

I have a few born in "unusual" places.

"At sea" for one chap, though it's mentioned as place of death for two who were not in the military. That has to be the biggest place anyone could mention.

H.M. Ship Rodney, which I understand was in Portsmouth in 1821. Why mum was on board a warship I can only speculate.

Sable Island, a virtually uninhabited sandbar about a hundred miles off the coast of Nova Scotia. Her parents were members of the lifesaving crew.

[cristeen]

Much more recently, a girl I met at university had on her birth certificate 'Tent at foot of Mount Kilimanjaro'

I wonder what her Nationality was recorded as? I can remember a girl I was at school with, who was Born in Singapore, because her Father was stationed there as an Army Officer, had great difficulty obtaining a British Passport.

Romilly.

Romilly, I believe she was a British subject by parentage. I can't recall why her parents were out there

[Kiltpin]

I too have an "at sea", but that obviously wasn't precise enough, so they added "between Capetown and Bombay". Then another hand added "(during a storm)". As if that would narrow it down a bit ...

Regards

Chas

[Nova67]

Blyth Cemetery was the birth location. Dad was the superintendent.

[jfchaly]

One of my Maternal Aunts had her baby in kidney unit of a London Hospital 68 years ago.
The hospital did not have a maternity ward.
The pregnant woman was too ill to be moved to a Maternity Hospital.

The mother, my aunt had very poor health in her thirties, but lived to reach 93 years.

Jfch