Hmmm that's a good point. I'll check to see how close the address are. I do know that my great grandfathers mum lived on Balkan street at that time but not number 58.
Could 58 have been a poorly written 38 or 68? A James Quinn died at no 58 in 1936. No mention of a wife, living or late, in newspaper notice at time. Earlier, in 1903, a newspaper of time noted in an inquest report:
. said that his wife had been attended at her confinement by a woman named Margaret, 68 Balkan Street
so perhaps, depending on age, she was still assisting births in 1925. Something to consider anyhow, albeit the Margaret of the 1903 article was blacklisted, so perhaps not. Either way, it shows the possibility of local women attending confinements in the area, be they midwifes or otherwise.
