A Midwife's Register

[icrookham]

Hello All

I have been desperately trying to tie down the family history of my maternal great grandmother Annie Ellen Griffiths without success for about 18 months now but without a date of birth found it impossible.She gave birth to my grandmother,Doris Annie Griffiths,illegitimately,in Poulton cum Seacombe on the Wirral in 1907.From my grandmother's birth certificate I have established the name of the midwife as Ellen Martin who was practising as a midwife in the Seacombe area at the time and is shown as such on the 1911 census.On other sites on the net I have come across a few instances of registers compiled by individual midwives which show a wealth of information about the individual deliveries undertaken by the particular midwife including the age of the mother.The information shown is remarkably similar so may well have been in a prescribed format possibly following the 1902 Act regulating midwives.

The $64000 question is do any of you very knowledgeable people know where such records may be held?

Ian

[Jan1954]

Hello Ian,

Have you tried contacting the Wirral Archives Service? They might have such a register in their records or at least be able to point you in the right direction.