My grandmother had three children. The first was born at home in 1914, but the other two, born in 1920 and 1926 respectively, took place at 2 different private homes despite the fact the family was still resident at the original 1914 address.
I'm puzzled why the births took place somewhere other than the family home or a medical facility of some sort. Could they have been the homes of midwives? Any information on the likelihood of this possibility would be welcome.
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17-02-2012, 7:31 AM #1
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17-02-2012, 7:39 AM #2Jan1954Guest
Have you fully checked out the addresses of the 1920 and 1926 births? Who was living there?
I was born in a private nursing home (okay.... not as far back as the 1920s ) but even then, the building was listed as an address on my birth certificate, rather than as a nursing home. However, by rummaging in the directories of the day, it is also listed as a nursing home.
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17-02-2012, 8:06 AM #3
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the building was listed as an address on my birth certificate
In other words, something that looks like a private residential address may not be!
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17-02-2012, 8:27 AM #4
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The addresses in question were, respectively, 6 Moorfield Road, Cowley [i.e. Uxbridge], Middlesex & 36 Glebe Road, Hayes, Middx. Both appear today to be private dwellings, and pretty much the same as the surrounding homes. Unfortunately, I have no access to Kelly or Post Office directories to determine what they were in 1920 & 1926. Oddly, the family home at the time was not in Middlesex at all but in Iver, Buckinghamshire.
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