According to the British History Online website "Until the 1750s there was no permanently resident priest in Chester, masses being said either by a gentleman's chaplain, typically from Hooton Hall in Wirral or the Fitzherberts' house" http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57320   Regards,   Joy ________________________________ From: conaught2 <conaught2@charter.net> To: CHESHIRE@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, 7 November 2013, 19:03 Subject: [CHS] Henry Dowdall's death in 1748 in Chester Hi Joy, Thank you for your helpful suggestions.  I will look at Find My Past  transcripts and check spelling variations which there are many. I am trying to locate the names of the RC churches in Chester in 1748.  Do you know if St. Werburgh was built on the site of an older church on Queen Street?  Hopefully Henry's burial record still survives. Thank you again for your prompt response. Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: Joy Langdon To: conaught2 Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 1:52 AM Subject: Re: [CHS] Henry Dowdall's death in 1748 in Chester Hello Margaret, Before 1837 deaths were recorded in parish burial records. However, if Henry was Roman Catholic he might not appear in the Church of England parish records (see link): http://archives.cheshire.gov.uk/what_we_hold/roman_catholics.aspx Find My Past have transcripts of the Cheshire Parish Registers and Henry's death does not appear but I did not try variations of spelling. Just as with the Irish records, not all records survive from that period of course and those that do survive aren't always legible. Joy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message