In the margin of this book, notes of births and deaths are also recorded, not just from Dublin but also from other places in Ireland. A third source book is the maternity attendance book of Mrs Ada Shillman , the midwife of the Dublin Jewish community. It is a 64 page record of all the deliveries she attended from 9 April 1896 up to 29 April 1908. Approximately 900 births are recorded. Mrs Shillman's work did not extend beyond the few streets around the Portobello district of the South Circular Road, but the largest concentration of Jewish settlement in Ireland was located in that district.
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This article is reproduced with the kind permission of Irish Roots Magazine in which it was first published in Issue 4, 1996.