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St Rita - Donnybrook-St Patricks Guild

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  • 01-09-2018 11:02am
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    decko11
    Registered Users Posts: 154 ✭✭


    hi

    I have started some tentative research

    From AAI i have got some basic info

    It seems from google a link between Ms Keating and Donnybrook and St patricks and some press re birth mums names registered wrongly

    Anyone any experiences with above - good or bad


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    bessboroughboy
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭bessboroughboy


    decko11 wrote: »
    hi

    I have started some tentative research

    From AAI i have got some basic info

    It seems from google a link between Ms Keating and Donnybrook and St patricks and some press re birth mums names registered wrongly

    Anyone any experiences with above - good or bad


    From what I remember reading, deliberate misinformation was recorded on certificates in an organised way, in other words, it may be possible to ascertain whether your own records are accurate or not by asking others if any "giveaway" clues exist.

    Either way, if you were born after 1967 (or maybe part of or all of 1967 too) all you need to do is visit the GRO and scan through the birth records to narrow it down to male births on your day of birth. You may have extra info. from AAI (mother's first name & your first name) to help narrow it down further.

    If born earlier, it takes longer because the books are alphabetical by mother's surname not chronological.

    So, seek out your birth certificate (sometimes called original birth certificate) and take it from there, hopefully it will be correct.
    If you find it though, don't attempt to make contact yourself - give the social workers a chance to go through the proper procedures.

    Hope it all goes smoothly for you.


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    decko11
    Registered Users Posts: 154 ✭✭decko11


    thanks for that

    I am post 67 so hopefully easier

    suggestion of an interesting article by Mike Milotte this year (in Irish Times) was that politicians / priests/ business men used the above route (St Ritas) when they got young girls pregant with misinformation being the order of the day to avoid any linkage etc


    AAI provided no other info other than occupation of mother and her age and said current law precludes anything more and where careful to word letter " our records state" -- and as we all know paper never refused ink.....


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