Out with residents today in Ashtown / Pelletstown giving the Royal Canal a bit of a facelift! Plenty of rubbish collected — sadly, no hidden treasure 😂 Great work by the community! #Ashtown #Pelletstown

All I want is for her death to be properly recorded.

If you've followed me on here for a while, you will have seen me tell the story of Patricia Brennan, a 2 year old child who died in the #Pelletstown mother and baby home.

A thread...

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Everything’s uploaded, ready and scheduled.

Roll on the 29th.

#Pelletstown #ProjectInfant

For people who kept meticulous records, it's certainly interesting to see the wrong ages recorded for infants who died in the #Pelletstown mother and baby home.

Case in point with Bridget & Mary Keegan, twin girls born 20/08/1920 but died 18/09/1920. 4 weeks, not 2.

I'm amazed at the parts of Ireland that those who died in the #Pelletstown mother and baby home came from.

A few days when I had recorded 80 people, it was mainly centralised around Dublin, now 104 – it's expanded hugely (even to England 😨)

It's time to continue working on adding the names of the #Pelletstown Mother and Baby Home to the site now.

The last time I did anything, was November 27th, the following day was the start of a two-week cold which drained me and I didn't feel up for doing any. Back into it...

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After 10 months of off and on research into the #Pelletstown mother and baby home, we’ve decided to start working on publishing the names that have been found by volunteers at @Project_Infant.

Now, there are a few things I’d like to mention.

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An updated thread of wordclouds with the surnames that the 2,508 mothers and children that have been found in the Pelletstown Mother and Baby Home.

See if you know any people with these names. I'd be surprised if you don't.

#Pelletstown #MotherAndBabyHomes #Genealogy

Needless to say, the research into #Pelletstown with
@projectinfant.bsky.social is going wonderfully.

However, I realised something today, with the homes in Dublin - the districts aren't any different whether you're researching Dublin South or Dublin North, it's always those two...

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Needless to say, the research into #Pelletstown with @Project_Infant is going wonderfully.

However, I realised something today, with the homes in Dublin - the districts aren't any different whether you're researching Dublin South or Dublin North, it's always those two...

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After writing out causes of death spanning three and a quarter pages, I can give the main causes of death for the 2,493 people that have been found so far with #Pelletstown.

So far, the main ones are:

Delicacy at / Delicate from birth - 326
Marasmus - 167
Enteritis - 163