Hey there,
Hoping to pick the brains of you good people, regarding the Regina Coeli Hostel on Nth Brunswick Street in Dublin. Anyone know anything about it?
It appears that my Grandmother, Rose Ryan nee Friary (d. 2007) lived there when a couple of her children were very little, but for how long I don't know and they do not have any memory of living there. I was wondering how many women lived there at one time in the mid to late '50's and what kind of 'situations' the mother's would have been in (most unmarried, I assume, but were there widows, pauper-pregnant women there, etc).
I have a theory that my grandmother was still living there while married with 2 young children, but her new husband was in England, securing a boarding house that would house both of them and the children. My gran is registered as living at the Regina Coeli hostel on her marriage cert to him, while he was living at a boarding house in Luton, Beds. However, the house he was living in appears to have been a boarding house for mainly single (all unrelated) men. However, I have also found a death registration for a baby that is under his surname, but as living at the hostel at the time of death and 4 months after the marriage.
I just wondered if anyone could shed any light on the place and direct to me where I might find records for it (if there are/were any!).
Thanks.
