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Hello, I wonder if anyone is able to help me with the below and I know this is a longshot.... Does anyone know how to find records for babies born in "convents" in Ireland in the 1920s? If such records even exist.

We were recently told that my grandmother may have become pregnant in the 1920s when 15/16 years old and she was "sent off to the nuns". No-one knows what happened to the baby, if it survived or indeed to my grandmother until she moved to England later in life. It looks like she was sent away from the family home. No info on who the baby's father would have been and the circumstances.

This baby would have been my mother's half-sibling and I am trying to find out if the nuns ever kept records. Obviously I'm aware of all the horror stories of what happened to many girls who ended up in these convents. We don't know where the convent is that my grandmother was sent to but she lived in Corrigeenroe in Roscommon & Lacarrow, Ballinafad, Sligo.

I understand that there is a big move now to discover more about the babies born in these kinds of situations and I just wondered if anyone knows how I would find out where my grandmother may have been sent and what records may exist?

Thank you very much for any help you can give me.

The baby's birth should have been registered, wherever it was born - but of course may not have been, if subject to the sort of underhand dealings one hears about in those places.

Can you tell us your grandmother's name, please?
You say she lived at Corrigeenroe - when was that?

You say ‘1920’s’……….would this have been before - or after - partition?

EDITED........in view of other thread (see below) it would have been 'after' as the girl in question was born late 1908

Try here:

https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1403789

A usuful website - the address is o long so google for itv call for records about mother and baby institutions. It is date February this year.

also :https://jfmresearch.com/home/magdalene-names-project/


https://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/list/MH.shtml

Hi, yes my grandmother is Mary Christina McNiff born Dec 1908 in Boyle, Roscommon Ireland. The south of Ireland. Their family home was in Lecarrow but we know at times she lived with relatives in Roscommon etc. Thank you.

Oh yes, I remember the name from the other thread.

There are no illegitimate McNiff births showing on irishgenealogy.ie during the 1920s.

Nor on https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk/search/birth

If the baby was adopted from the convent, it may only have been registered under the adopted name.

Thank you so much everyone for your help. Really grateful to you all!

Thanks for doing that AG - no idea how to do it.

The htreead has now bee n marked a answered :-S

I think you may be right about the birth registrations. There was a TV series recently called The Woman in the Wall. I think a lot of it was based around fact and I am sure that the registration only to the adopted parents was part of it.