To ask if you know your exact place of birth?

[Toffeesgirl]

Not the City but the name and address of the hospital (assuming, of course, you were born in hospital).

I ask because I am filling in a form which asks just this. Now I was born nearly 60 years ago in a non-UK but European city (I am British). I do know the hospital was knocked down about 50 years ago but as Mum is no longer with us and my Dad is very confused, I don't have a clue which one. Google tells me that there was a mass building post-war clearance in the 1970s but, oddly enough, not a list of all the hospitals (sarcasm). I was registered at the British Consulate which just lists the city name as place of birth.

The form which asks for it, is an important document I need for a new job (bit like a dbs) but apparently this piece of information is vital! The office I spoke to is checking with a higher authority but in case I need to argue my case, I just wondered if this is a piece of information that everybody else is aware of.

Do you know the name of the hospital? If so you should be able to find out the address. Or look up what hospitals used to be in that city.
I was born at the Middlesex Hospital, which is no longer there but I could easily find the address (I know where it is, I used to walk past regularly when I worked in London).

Is it the government online form that also asks for loads of info about your parents and where they were born? I'd just put the city again, they'll come back to you if it's a problem.

Which country OP and shouldn't you have a local birth certificate as well? Most European countries that gets done automatically. The reason you're also registered with the British consulate was presumably for citizenship purposes.

I do know where I was born, and my mum and my Nan but I only know this because I'm nosy!

Yes, the hospital might be still there but I don't suppose it matters so long as I know the address it was at.

Yes I do. I was born in Glasgow in the mid 60s and I have both a long form birth certificate which gives the address plus things like time of birth and a short form extract which doesn't have as much detail.

The hospital I was born at address is on my birth cert.

Yes but it’s the same hospital my baby girl will be born at in January. It probably helps the hospital still exists but I agree I’d be stumped if I was born somewhere that I’d moved away from and no longer existed.

I know the town but not the address. The building is long gone.

Yes but I was born at home so know the address.

Just write down any hospital in that city that’s no longer there.

No one is going to know.

Yes, I know the hospital and address. It's still there.

I was born at home.
I live less than 2 miles from the house and I pass it at least once a week.
The house was for sale in May/June. I thought of arranging a viewing. Wish I had. I could have seen what had been done to my bedroom.
I also know the name of the midwife that delivered me.

@Toffeesgirl - there’s no way of proving it either way, just say that’s what your parents told you if you’re asked.

I, along with many others, was born in Honeypot Lane, Kingsbury. Lovely name.

The hospital name is on my birth certificate so I could find out the address if necessary.

Yes but I don’t live far away and it’s still there and my mum is still sharp so easy for me.

Which country? Many European countries have centralized/regionalized civic registration documents. Do you have any type of personal number from when they were born.

I still have my NHS registration card from the early 1960s but in the European country I live in now I can just tap in my personal number and get up my registration details from the early 1990s

Yes, Queen Charlottes in Hammersmith.

Slightly off topic but when my mum ( who was a teenager at the time she had me) was being discharged from there the nurse looked her up and down and said 'see you next year, dearie.'

My mum said 'No you won't!' and this woman sneered at her and said ' oh they all say that...but most of them can't keep their legs shut either.'

Readers, I am an only child...

Really though, absolutely shocking behaviour from a nurse.

I know the name and general locality of the hospital, but it was closed years ago. I've just googled it - apparently it had a long history as a Sally Army hospital- I didn't know that!

Yes Mum told me years ago

They must have a way round it - my mum was born in a COUNTRY that no longer exists (obviously the borders changed and it renamed, I don't mean there's a black hole there now 😄) so a missing hospital address shouldn't be too weird and unusual. Agree with PPs though that say just put anything, the only way they can disprove it is if they find out the real address and then at least they can tell you!!

Cheeky nurses. I was 19 when my daughter was born. Groaning away in the delivery room - no company in those days - midwife came in, sighed, 'tsk, you young girls and your Christmas parties, we can't move in here in September'.

They must have a workaround for people who can't promise this information. The country I was born in doesn't use street names. People use PO boxes in the post office for their mail, and if you're trying to tell someone where a particular house or something is, you use landmarks.

What would they do if someone was born at sea? Or mid-flight? Or in a cave?

Yes, I could look it up, but there was only one maternity hospital in the town where I was born. If you were born in a city then it might be more complicated. You could go to a local library and ask for help working out what the possibilities might have been. It's likely that there would have been a particular hospital or small number of hospitals serving maternity covering the area where your parents lived. If you can narrow that down to one then you'll be done.