Question about Downpatrick in 1960s

[notastitchtowear]

Posting here for traffic.

I'm currently doing some family research and trying to establish a place of birth for a relative who was born in Downpatrick in mid 1960s. The writing on the birth certificate is difficult to decipher.

Research seems to suggest that the local hospital at the time was the Old Downe Hospital but this doesn't seem to fit the handwritten scrawl on the certificate.

Does anyone who knows/knew the area know if babies were all born in the town hospital or was there another maternity unit in the town in the 1960s?

TIA

You could post this in craicnet, it may reach more people who would be knowledgeable about the area

I had a quick Google the name Hardy Greer hospital popped up a few times but cant find a definite answer

Quoile Hospital?

I´ll ask my Mum.

Sorry, it was Portadown not Downpatrick she lived in. She doesn't know.

Fuck me, this is an odd one to see on Mumsnet. Before my time but I'll ask. Could be the Downshire? It's a psychiatric hospital now, but for some reason I think it may have been the old workhouse, and then the hospital before the (bigger, fancier) Down was built. Couldn't be 100% on that though

If you want to pm me a pic of the handwriting I might be able to recognise the name

And it was the Downshire hospital not the old Downe. Think they built the new hospital late sixties early seventies

www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/trying_to_find/thread/513962

Found this on google it references the Hardy Greer/Quoile

Thank you for your quick replies.

NoUser, I think you've cracked it! I have spent hours searching online and Hardy Greer hospital never came up once (or at least I didn't see it). But it definitely does fit with the scrawl on the certificate.

Thank you so much :)

You're very welcome

The old Downe hospital had 49 beds, including maternity, before being closed down. The name has been used since the 1700's but the hospital has moved to bigger premises over the years.

Oops xpost

Thanks everyone. I'm quite sure it's the Hardy Greer House.

Bonewitch, why do you think it's odd? Not being funny, just genuinely curious.

Only because I live in the area, and it's not one you usually see mentioned on the front page of MN...made me come over all funny, that did glad you got sorted

Bonewitch, I get that. I honestly didn't expect so many replies with it being such a specific question. Good old MN.

Hardy Greer was the Maternity Unit of the Quoile Hospital, long since closed, became a Council yard, I myself was born there in the 60.s.

I was born in Hardy Greer in 1964.😀