born in scotland

mollydolly271

Hi,
I just wanted to ask does anyone know if my birth cert wud be regastered in Ireland as i was born in scotland to a irish woman who just went over there to give birth i was brought straight back here and fostered for 6 months and then adopted here???

kathy finn

hi, im sure your birth would have been registered in scotland.
why don,t you try the websites like genes reunited, i found these sites invaluable to find my birthmothers marraige and death cert..kathy

martinf

mollydolly271 wrote: »

Hi,
I just wanted to ask does anyone know if my birth cert wud be regastered in Ireland as i was born in scotland to a irish woman who just went over there to give birth i was brought straight back here and fostered for 6 months and then adopted here???

hi Molly,

If you know your birth mothers name and the one you were given at birth then it should be a bit easier to find your original birth cert. The UK birth records seem to be much better that ours. You can probably do a search on their online records for the sake of a couple of Euro. It'd also be interesting to see how your adoption was dealt with in that I would assume that as you were born in Scotland technically you'd probably be a foreign adoption. They may not have been that strict on this at the time though given that your mother was Irish and you came straight back.

Best wishes

Martin

mollydolly271

hi thanks for replies but no i dont have any names or info to go on but i know it was all done through that place on south annes st but didnt really want to go to them i am just curious to know her name and to have my proper birth cert juust dont know where to start really

martinf

mollydolly271 wrote: »

hi thanks for replies but no i dont have any names or info to go on but i know it was all done through that place on south annes st but didnt really want to go to them i am just curious to know her name and to have my proper birth cert juust dont know where to start really

Hi,

I think the only route to get information that may lead you to your birth cert is to go to the agency or possibly the adoption board as you are dealing with two different jurisdictions and its usually hard enough dealing with 1:).

kathy finn

hi, the adoption agency on south annes street is cunamh formally the catholic protection and rescue society.
why don,t you contact them and ask for your non id information this will give you your mothers first name and the name she called you at birth, from there you will be able to find your own birthcert but don,t tell them thats why you want it.
the address is cunamh
cprsi house
30 south anne street
dublin 2 ph 6779661

fax 6770235 email cunamh@dol.ie

mollydolly271

hi well i went to cunamh today so i have my natural mothers christian name and the name she called me also i was told that my birth was regastered in scotland so does anyone know is this enough info to get my birth cert and also how or where do i go for birth certs in scotland??

Carrigart Exile

mollydolly271 wrote: »

hi well i went to cunamh today so i have my natural mothers christian name and the name she called me also i was told that my birth was regastered in scotland so does anyone know is this enough info to get my birth cert and also how or where do i go for birth certs in scotland??

Hi Molly it's through the General Registrars Office, most of which is on-line. You can also request that GRO staff do a search for you.

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/

You may find its easier to find yourself than you think, they used to keep a separate book of adoptions, which might make tracking down your data a lot easier.

Good luck.

mollydolly271

hi quick update i got my mothers full name from a place called birthlink in scotland but as she was married and separated before she had me no one is sure if the surname is her maiden name or marraige name so can anyone suggest how i can go about finding some more info here.also she did have a 3 year old daughter at from her marraige could i maybe use this info as a start of looking up her birth?? any help from anyone who has done this before would be a great help thanks:D

kathy finn

hi molly dolly,
if i remember correctly your mother was from ireland, i think your next step is to head to the birth deaths and marraige records room it,s in the irish life mall in dublin ( someone correct me if it,s moved back to joyce house)
they hold all the records for births deaths and marraiges in the south of ireland.
firstly i would try to look for a marraige cert that would give you her name before marraige, if you can,t find that then look for her birthcert with the name you have and you can also look up the childs birthcert that would also have her name before marraige.
good luck .......kathy

The_Conductor

Kathy is right.

The General Registry Office Reading Room is still in the Irish Life Mall on Talbot Street.

Your first job is to find your mother's original birth cert. As the children of married couple's are ineligible for adoption under the 1954 legislation- I would work on the initial assumption that the name you have for your mum is her maiden name.

Births are registered under the mother's maiden name (indeed its how an adopted person would search for their own birth certs in the first instance- as the registered surname for the mother and child would both be the same). You obviously will at this point (after confirming with your mother's original birth cert) have her maiden name- which will make getting the birth cert for your sibling (if they were born here!!!) incredibly easy.

Once you have the original cert- next you'd move over to the Adopted Childrens Register (which is not on open display to the public and will have to be requested seperately at the desk). Its in about 4 volumes (depending on the version they have there) and here you are looking to match up birthdates. You will probably get a couple of matches- make sure you go through all the books. One of these matches will be your sibling (if they were adopted in the Irish Republic).

At this stage- I'd get onto Julie Kerrins and get her to start confirming information- threatening to go knocking on doors is normally a good way of getting them to get their arses into gear........

Do post back if you need any pointers or other help,

Shane

mollydolly271

thanks katy and shane for that sorry shane i might not made it clear in my other post but the daughter she had 3 years before me was not put up for adopition so she would have my mothers marraige name on her birth cert so hopefully that should help too. anyway i dont think i'll get a chance to do any searching this side of xmas but thanks again its really helpfull to know there are people i can ask who know what they are talking about:D

The_Conductor

mollydolly271 wrote: »

thanks katy and shane for that sorry shane i might not made it clear in my other post but the daughter she had 3 years before me was not put up for adopition so she would have my mothers marraige name on her birth cert so hopefully that should help too. anyway i dont think i'll get a chance to do any searching this side of xmas but thanks again its really helpfull to know there are people i can ask who know what they are talking about:D

Hi Molly- if we can help at all- feel free to ask any questions you have.

Cheers,

Shane