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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: Aye Right on Monday 28 April 08 17:29 BST (UK)
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Hi All
I have a birth place in the 1920's of 251 St Vincent Street, Glasgow.
Can anyone tell me if there was a hospital or nursing home on this site at this time - the building has since been replaced with a new build.
I don't think it was a home address but anything is possible I suppose.
Can you help?
Thanks.
Aye Right.
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Hello Aye Right,
Not too sure if I'm reading it correctly, but the 1927 directory for Glasgow has this at the address:
251 Mulgrew, Nurse (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glasgow/1927address1041.jpg)
You can browse/search through the full directory here (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glasgow/index-glas.htm), if you wish. :)
hume24
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Thanks for your help hume24.
Would anyone know what the set up was in the days before the NHS and hospital births - would a nurse set up a 'private birthing clinic'? Would the patient need to be well off to afford this type of service? What type of person would have used this service when home births were so common - or were they?
Regards
Aye Right
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Hi Aye Right,
I searched on old editions of Glasgow Herald online, and I can see births and deaths at 251 St. Vincent Street, but no name for a hospital etc.
On the 1913 valuation roll, it was a tenement house with 4 tenants and 2 vacancies, quite well to do houses annual rent was £ 26.
Tom
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I have a relation born at 251 St Vincent Street in 1919. The birth certificate shows no father's name, so an illegitimate child. The following entry in the birth register shows a child born at the same address in the same circumstances. Perhaps one of the flats in the tenement was used as a "refuge" for women in what must have been difficult circumstances in those days. That of course is surmise on my part. Maybe there was even a connection with the church that stands next to where the tenement was?
Jandabarclay
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Hi jandabarclay - welcome to Rootschat. :)
It would be interesting to note if the birth certificate 'Aye Right' has is also of an illegitimate child. Maybe 251 was a home for unwed mothers, and would be where they had the children before returning home?
I've searched the 1901 index for the address and viewed the original image on SP ... no names/occupations show anything other than a residential building. :-\
hume24
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The address was run in the 1940s as a home for unmarried mothers and adoptions were arranged from there.
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Hello Roman
That's interesting information. Do you know how I could find out more information, especially pre-1940? Happy New Year.
Jean
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Hello
My father was born in a private nursing home on st Vincent st in Glasgow 1931. I bet this is the same place. This is exciting to read. My father was then adopted. Years later it appears in reading his birth certificate that his natural father is his adoptee. I would love so much to explore this further.
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Just by the way, there was a place called the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow at 232 - 242 St Vincent Street at that time. It still exists. It is in the Glasgow telephone book.
Perhaps a few blocks of buildings, either side were connected with it. In the old days, in Manchester, an ancestor of mine was a Doctor and Surgeon, and he delivered babies. Just a thought.
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Hello Roman
That's interesting information. Do you know how I could find out more information, especially pre-1940? Happy New Year.
Jean
My mum was born there in 1930. I'd love to find more information as well.
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'The Scotsman' dated 10th January 1931 (and various other dates throughout 1927) has an advertisement stating:
'Nurse Mulgrew (certificated) has private rooms for confinements. 251 St Vincent Street, Glasgow.'
This confirms the same name for this address from hume24's post of 2008.
Regards,
Andrea
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On the Valuation Records on https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk), 1920 VR of 251 St Vincent Street shows a Catherine Mulgrew, as one of 8 tenants at this address. In 1925 and 1930 it shows a Mrs Catherine Johnston, a Catherine Mulgrew married a Neil Johnston in 1921 in Milton. I suspect she kept her maiden name for nurse, due to certification. She is not in the 1935 VR at this address.
Tom Buchanan
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No-one has included which area (in Glasgow) 251 Vincent St. was?
Not sure if this is relevant for anyone's research but...
I looked at a map & the area which came up looks to be Anderston?
However...
Death for Catherine Mildrew or Johnston
JOHNSTON CATHERINE 71
1956
644/6 11 Blythswood
Blythswood seems very close to Anderston (2 mins by car)
Annie
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Hi Rosinish,
That is the correct death certificate, she was a widow, Neil Johnston, a printers assistant, had died earlier. She was found dead in 9, Minerva Street, not too far from St Vincent Street, although registered in Blythswood. Her son, Anthony Johnston registered her death.
Tom