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Dublin question

  • 22-03-2012 12:56pm
    #1
    genealogist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭


    Perhaps a researcher in Dublin can help me.

    In 1918 I have a baby born in The Coombe Hospital and the parents lived at nearby Meath Place.

    For 1918 was it still the norm to have the child at home (suggests a problem?) and if the child was baptised in the hospital who would keep a record of the baptism....the local parish?

    What would the local RC parish be for Meath Place/The Coombe?


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  • #2
    shanew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    Records should have been recorded in the appropriate parish..

    The closest parish church to Meath Place would be Francis St. / St. Nicholas of Myra.

    Not sure where the Coombe Hosp was then... doesn't seem to be at the location it is now



    S.


  • #3
    shanew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    The Coombe Lying in Hospital was located in the Coombe, close to the junction with Meath Street - so I'd say also Francis St. parish.



    S.


  • #4
    genealogist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭genealogist


    shanew wrote: »
    The Coombe Lying in Hospital was located in the Coombe, close to the junction with Meath Street - so I'd say also Francis St. parish.



    S.


    Many thanks Shane, I have sent a request to the parish.


  • #5
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,709 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Definitely normal to have babies at home right up until the 1960s.

    St Nicholas' have an archivist so hopefully she'll get back to you quickly. They were helpful to me before when checking records post the NLI cutoff.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #6
    tenterfields
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 ✭tenterfields


    St Catherine's of Meath Street might be another possibility.


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  • #7
    shanew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    tenterfields wrote: »
    St Catherine's of Meath Street might be another possibility.

    managed to miss that - it's definitely closer to Meath place than St. Nicholas...

    The old Coombe hospital was about equal distance for both


  • #8
    genealogist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭genealogist


    shanew wrote: »
    managed to miss that - it's definitely closer to Meath place than St. Nicholas...

    The old Coombe hospital was about equal distance for both


    OK thanks both, I'll see what St Nicholas have to say and I'll look at st Catherines if I have no joy.


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