At 5-8-2007 11:32 AM, Cara MacDonald wrote: >After looking through the St Margarets RC Church records I see that >the earliest dates are 1845. Can anyone give me a tip on where to >look for pre-1845 RC marriages? Did the couples travel to Halifax >for the ceremony? I don't have time to do a lot of research on this at the moment, but Father (later Bishop) William FRASER emigrated to the Antigonish area in 1822, and the church was at least minimally established in the area by then, moreso a bit further east on Cape Breton. (Arichat was the nominal seat of the diocese until 1886.) A few more details: http://catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/danti.html http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01562c.htm http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07117b.htm Which Saint Margaret's Church? And do you know your MacDONALD family's nickname? My wife has McBride ancestors from the St Andrew's area. Joe -- Joe Makowiec can be reached at: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe http://makowiec.org/