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