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Title: Avondale Maternity Homes
Post by: belindy on Monday 18 May 15 06:54 BST (UK)
My grandmother and her brother were both born in Bentleigh Ave, Avondale. Her brother in 1931 and nana in 1933.

Was there a maternity home there around that time?
Title: Re: Avondale Maternity Homes
Post by: Janette on Monday 18 May 15 07:13 BST (UK)
Hi belindy,

Do you know where their parents were living,could it have been the family home?

Cheers Janette
Title: Re: Avondale Maternity Homes
Post by: belindy on Monday 18 May 15 07:20 BST (UK)
Hi Janette,
I have a copy of nana's second birth certificate(she was illegitimate and her name was changed 6yrs later).
Her mother is listed as living on Rosebank Rd, Avondale.
Title: Re: Avondale Maternity Homes
Post by: belindy on Monday 18 May 15 07:22 BST (UK)
It seems that the name was changed AFTER the father died.

So messy!!
Title: Re: Avondale Maternity Homes
Post by: Janette on Monday 18 May 15 07:25 BST (UK)
I see that Bentleigh Ave was a very new road having been council approved in 1927

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19270804.2.70&srpos=33&e=-------100--1-byDA---2Bentleigh--

Cheers Janette
Title: Re: Avondale Maternity Homes
Post by: AMBLY on Monday 18 May 15 07:28 BST (UK)
This is interesting -

http://timespanner.blogspot.co.nz/2013/05/filling-cradles.html

".....private maternity nursing homes (ones set up in suburbia, in private houses run by licensed nurses, sometimes unlicensed, usually assisted by GPs).

......At one time, Avondale had two going, in the early 1930s, out of a total of four between 1915 and 1945"


Cheers
AMBLY
Title: Re: Avondale Maternity Homes
Post by: Janette on Monday 18 May 15 07:36 BST (UK)
Here is a birth notice from 1932

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19320509.2.2&srpos=65&e=-------100--1-byDA---2Bentleigh--

Cheers Janette