251 St Vincent Street, Glasgow

[Aye Right]

Hi All

I have a birth place in the 1920's of 251 St Vincent Street, Glasgow.

Can anyone tell me if there was a hospital or nursing home on this site at this time - the building has since been replaced with a new build.

I don't think it was a home address but anything is possible I suppose.

Can you help?

Thanks.
Aye Right.

[hume]

Hello Aye Right,

Not too sure if I'm reading it correctly, but the 1927 directory for Glasgow has this at the address:

251 Mulgrew, Nurse

You can browse/search through the full directory here, if you wish.

hume24

[Aye Right]

Thanks for your help hume24.

Would anyone know what the set up was in the days before the NHS and hospital births - would a nurse set up a 'private birthing clinic'?  Would the patient need to be well off to afford this type of service?  What type of person would have used this service when home births were so common - or were they?

Regards
Aye Right

[tidybooks]

Hi Aye Right,

I searched on old editions of Glasgow Herald online, and I can see births and deaths at 251 St. Vincent Street, but no name for a hospital etc.

On the 1913 valuation roll, it was a tenement house with 4 tenants and 2 vacancies, quite well to do houses annual rent was £ 26.

Tom

[jandabarclay]

I have a relation born at 251 St Vincent Street in 1919. The birth certificate shows no father's name, so an illegitimate child. The following entry in the birth register shows a child born at the same address in the same circumstances. Perhaps one of the flats in the tenement was used as a "refuge" for women in what must have been difficult circumstances in those days. That of course is surmise on my part. Maybe there was even a connection with the church that stands next to where the tenement was?
Jandabarclay

[hume]

Hi jandabarclay - welcome to Rootschat.

It would be interesting to note if the birth certificate 'Aye Right' has is also of an illegitimate child. Maybe 251 was a home for unwed mothers, and would be where they had the children before returning home?

I've searched the 1901 index for the address and viewed the original image on SP ... no names/occupations show anything other than a residential building.

hume24

[roman]

The address was run in the 1940s as a home for unmarried mothers and adoptions were arranged from there.

[jandabarclay]

Hello Roman
That's interesting information. Do you know how I could find out more information, especially pre-1940? Happy New Year.
Jean

[EastKilbride]

Hello
My father was born in a private nursing home on st Vincent st in Glasgow 1931.  I bet this is the same place.  This is exciting to read.  My father was then adopted. Years later it appears in reading his birth certificate that his natural father is his adoptee.  I would love so much to explore this further.