33 Percy St., Dublin - 1939 / Adoption

[bluebelle]

The difficulty is that your mother may not have given her real name which is what happened in my case and my mother cannot now remember what name she gave. If my sister was born in '56 I calculate that it would have either been the last week of March or the first week of April as Easter Sunday that year was the 1st of April.
Phone Tom Joyce ....The Adoption Authority: Shelbourne House, Shelbourne Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. Direct lines for Adoption Information and Tracing Unit: 01-2309327 ...   He will advise you..

[Maedhbh]

Hi Bluebelle

Thanks a million for your reply. I will phone that no. in the morning and see how I get on.  My parents were attending the doctor who delivered me.  He organised everything. He contacted them to let them know I had been born and told them to go to the nursing home. They were brought into a room in Percy Place and there I was, in a basket!  I had to stay for a few days as there was a problem with one of my eyes.
My parents were told by the doctor that my mother was very young.
I was born in January, it would have been too easy if it was March or April!!!!!  And registered on 1st February in Donnybrook.

[rattler]

Hi, I have been directed to this post after asking about babies given for adoption.  The child I am enquiring about was born in Holles Street Hospital and christened in St Andrews RC Church  This was December 1925.  Is it possible that Percy Street was going then.  Anne

[ronoc]

Hi all

I just received a birth cert this morn for 1939.  Place of birth 33 Percy Place, in attendance K Dalton.

I was wondering where this address was so used google and came accross these posts.  I had no reason to believe this person was adopted.  His parents names are both recorded on birth cert.

I am now wondering, if Percy Place was a home for unmarried mother's is it possible that married women also had their children there too? 

[Maedhbh]

Hi Ronoc
St Brendan's Private Nursing Home was a nursing home for unmarried mothers AND also married mothers.

There is no reason to assume that the birth cert you have was for an adopted person.
Hope this answers your question

[ronoc]

It certainly does, thank you Maedhbe 

[-Glen-]

Wow. This is fascinating.
I too have a birth cert for someone who was adopted and the mother's residence was recorded as 33 Percy Place! There was me thinking it was her home address.
The baby however was born at Holles Street Hospital.
This was in 1939.
Kind regards,
Glen

[-Glen-]

Has anybody had success in finding records for 33 Percy Place?
Or know where they are archived?

Thanks so much,
Glen 

[lc1718]

Wow. This is fascinating.
I too have a birth cert for someone who was adopted and the mother's residence was recorded as 33 Percy Place! There was me thinking it was her home address.
The baby however was born at Holles Street Hospital.
This was in 1939.
Kind regards,
Glen

Could they write to Holles street for copies of their paediatric medical records?