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How can I find out what time I was born?

  • 12-10-2009 12:42pm
    #1
    rsta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭


    I really haven't a clue which forum to post this in, so apologies if this is the wrong one...

    But how can I find out what time I was born? I don't have my birth certificate.

    Thanks :)


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  • #2
    Miaireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭Miaireland


    Go to the Birth, Deaths and Marriages office in the City/town where you were born. and get a copy of your birth cert. It only costs a few euros and you need you birth cert for lots of things.


  • #3
    rsta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭rsta


    Oh sound, thanks MiaIreland.


  • #4
    Tuesday_Girl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Tuesday_Girl


    My birth cert doesn't say what time I was born, maybe they do nowadays.


  • #5
    rsta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭rsta


    I dont know if mine will either. I wonder if I rang the hospital would they give the details to me over the phone? Might try that later on.


  • #6
    TheRealist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭TheRealist


    Just ask your mam??


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  • #7
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Ask your parents or else contact the records section of the hosptial you were born in.


  • #8
    username123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭username123


    Irish birth certificates do not have the time of birth registered on them.

    You have to contact the hospital where you were born with your mothers name and address at the time of birth.

    You may not find it an easy slog, it took me 6 months, 5 letters, numerous calls and 13.50 euro to get the information out of the Coombe hospital in Dublin - they were not helpful at all. (the 13.50 was for administration work looking up the records).

    And Id already asked my mother, but she was wrong by 4 hours!!


  • #9
    Thornography
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 640 ✭✭✭Thornography


    username123 wrote: »
    the Coombe hospital in Dublin -

    Damn thats where I was born

    Id really like to find out doh.


  • #10
    tfak85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭tfak85


    it's not easy to find out information like that, after a certain number of years stuff gets filed away and takes a while to dig out..
    13.50 is not bad, i think james' charges 15-25 if you want to find stuff out from your old charts.


  • #11
    Jumbo156
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 257 ✭✭Jumbo156


    username123 wrote: »
    Irish birth certificates do not have the time of birth registered on them.

    Sorry, they do, My two lads have their times on their birth certs. 13.49 and 11.17.
    Maybe this is a new thing as the eldest was born in 2005.


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  • #12
    ash23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭ash23


    Jumbo156 wrote: »
    Sorry, they do, My two lads have their times on their birth certs. 13.49 and 11.17.
    Maybe this is a new thing as the eldest was born in 2005.

    Must be a new thing. My daughter was born in 2003 and there is no mention of a time. I always just remember 7/11 (the shops in US) as she was born at 7 minutes to 11.


  • #13
    Jo King
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭Jo King


    I wonder how reliable hospital records are. Presumably they are written up sometime after the birth by the hospital staff. It would not surprise me if they just guessed the time when they have to fill in the form.


  • #14
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    THey are reasonably accurate as they have to be for medication etc.

    I emailed the hospital I was born in as there was a question about my date of birth and they came back with the date time weight etc.


  • #15
    Tuesday_Girl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Tuesday_Girl


    TheRealist wrote: »
    Just ask your mam??

    I asked my mother this very question recently and she cant remember.


  • #16
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    Razzle wrote: »
    I asked my mother this very question recently and she cant remember.

    my mother got the date wrong


  • #17
    MysticalSoul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,266 ✭✭✭MysticalSoul


    Is there a difference between the short and long birth cert as to what information is contained within it - maybe the long version has the time perhaps?


  • #18
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    There is no difference any more there is just one standard brith cert.


  • #19
    Heilixc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Heilixc


    Usually the only people who want to know the time they are born is so that they can have an astrological chart made up. I believe people shoul;d be denied knowledge of the time of their birth if that is the only reason they want to know.


  • #20
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    You can believe that and people can believe the planets do have an effect.
    I also belive that trolls can and will be banned from this forum.

    Unhelpful and off-topic posting will get you banned from this forum.
    Do take time to read the charter which contains the rules and abide by them.
    Have a nice day.
    Thaedydal


  • #21
    username123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭username123


    Jumbo156 wrote: »
    Sorry, they do, My two lads have their times on their birth certs. 13.49 and 11.17.
    Maybe this is a new thing as the eldest was born in 2005.

    Didnt know theyd started doing that - must be a new thing alright.


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  • #22
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    I was born in 1982 and time was not put on birth certs EXCEPT in multiple births. I was born at 9:07am and my twin brother at 9:05am. If you were not born as a twin, triplet etc. it will not be recorded on your birth cert. However this may have changed recently, anyway too recently for you to be old enough to be on boards.ie!!

    Hospital records would probably have it.

    Ask you mother or father. That's probably the easist way of finding out.

    If you're doing it for some astrological chart forget about it. Don't waste your time and money on hocus pocus. But if you're doing it out of curiosity then go for it :)


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