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Dublin / Re: 33 Percy St., Dublin - 1939 / Adoption
« on: Friday 16 April 21 13:49 BST (UK)  »
It is many years since I contributed to this post. I was looking for my sister who was born in Percy Place.  As I knew I was looking for a needle in a haystack I turned to Ancestry.co.uk and sat back.  3 years later her son who was also adopted popped up as my closest relation.  He had met his birth mother some years earlier. His mother, my sister, and I have met a few times but we do keep in touch by text.  She grew up a few kilometers away from where I grew up.  We have the same interests.  All I can say is I am very lucky to have had the chance to meet my sister.

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Dublin / Re: 33 percy street, dublin - 1939 usage
« on: Sunday 15 April 12 15:33 BST (UK)  »
The difficulty is that your mother may not have given her real name which is what happened in my case and my mother cannot now remember what name she gave. If my sister was born in '56 I calculate that it would have either been the last week of March or the first week of April as Easter Sunday that year was the 1st of April.
Phone Tom Joyce ....The Adoption Authority: Shelbourne House, Shelbourne Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. Direct lines for Adoption Information and Tracing Unit: 01-2309327 ...   He will advise you..

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Dublin / Re: 33 percy street, dublin - 1939 usage
« on: Friday 04 November 11 19:12 GMT (UK)  »
I think if you have a birth date and name, Shelbourne should be able to do something for you.  Write to them and drop the letter in by hand.  I think the guy in charge is a Tom Joyce = very nice man.  He rang me to discuss my situation.
Let me know how you get on.  Also children were baptised within a day or two of birth so Haddington road should be able to track down baptism cert.  It was 33 Percy Place as opposed to Street,  I do not think there is a street called Percy Street.

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Dublin / Re: 33 percy street, dublin - 1939 usage
« on: Monday 31 October 11 17:37 GMT (UK)  »
I presume you do not have a birth cert. with your father's biological parents' names on it?  If you had a birth date for your dad the following office may be able to help. The Adoption Authority: Shelbourne House, Shelbourne Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. Direct lines for Adoption Information and Tracing Unit: 01-2309327 ...
Haddington road church may be another avenue.  I have to try this one myself.
Best of luck.

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Dublin / Re: 33 percy street, dublin - 1939 usage
« on: Monday 31 October 11 11:15 GMT (UK)  »
It was a mother and baby home where unmarried mothers had their babies.

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Dublin / Re: 33 percy street, dublin - 1939 usage
« on: Tuesday 29 March 11 19:28 BST (UK)  »
I am looking for my sister who was born at Easter time, in Percy Place, sometime in the mid 1950s.  My mother gave her the name (*) Bailey, but noone of that name was born to a single parent in those years.  I was told that babies were handed to families who were told to register them in their own name. This practice went on well into the sixties. Private nursing homes like Percy Place were a law on to themselves. I think my chances of ever finding her are little to none.


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