Good evening Cooksters, After hours of searching the newly posted Catholic records on FamilySearch with ZERO sucess, I am wondering if I'm barking up the wrong tree. :o) I hope someone on the list can help me. A French-born Catholic wife and mother divorced her German husband in 1874. Days later she is married again, this time by a Justice of the Peace. Her new husband is Swiss. Would the Catholic Church allow her to remain a member? Recognize her second marriage? Could her children (born of the second marriage) be baptized in the Catholic faith? I'm not sure if husband #2 was Catholic or even religious. But if the Catholic Church didn't accept marriage #2, maybe the couple changed religions? Gave up going to church? To add another twist, the woman's son (from marriage #1) took his own life in 1912. Assuming he was Catholic, what would the Church's reaction be? I mean, could he have a Catholic funeral etc? Any thoughts? I matched their three known addressed with city directory church listings over a 30 year span and viewed 14 churches worth of records. My propects are thinning rapidly... It's all relative, Laura PS - Do we have an ancestor in common? Check my family history web site<http://livinginthepastlane.com/> or my blog <http://livinginthepastlane.blogspot.com/>.

Hi Laura, Life long Catholic here!!! The Catholic Church would not have recognized her second marriage before a Justice of the Peace, especially in 1874. In those days it would not have recognized her divorce. She could have continued to attend mass but not receive communion if she chose to. The Church in those days was eager to baptize infants, and it might have been possible for some leeway granted to her, but I doubt it. She might have felt that she removed herself from the church and never returned. I would suspect that they just did not bother with any church, but I could be wrong there. In those days the son who completed suicide could not have a funeral mass and would not have been buried in a Catholic cemetery. Thank God that attitudes have changed in this regard today. Do you have these obituaries? Do they shed any light on any of these people? I hope this helps. Joseph Martin Romeoville, Illinois On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Laura <find.an.ancestor@gmail.com> wrote: > Good evening Cooksters, > > After hours of searching the newly posted Catholic records on FamilySearch > with ZERO sucess, I am wondering if I'm barking up the wrong tree. :o) I > hope someone on the list can help me. > > A French-born Catholic wife and mother divorced her German husband in 1874. > Days later she is married again, this time by a Justice of the Peace. Her > new husband is Swiss. Would the Catholic Church allow her to remain a > member? Recognize her second marriage? Could her children (born of the > second marriage) be baptized in the Catholic faith? > > I'm not sure if husband #2 was Catholic or even religious. But if the > Catholic Church didn't accept marriage #2, maybe the couple changed > religions? Gave up going to church? > > To add another twist, the woman's son (from marriage #1) took his own life > in 1912. Assuming he was Catholic, what would the Church's reaction be? I > mean, could he have a Catholic funeral etc? > > Any thoughts? I matched their three known addressed with city directory > church listings over a 30 year span and viewed 14 churches worth of > records. > My propects are thinning rapidly... > > It's all relative, > > Laura > > PS - Do we have an ancestor in common? Check my family history web > site<http://livinginthepastlane.com/> or > my blog <http://livinginthepastlane.blogspot.com/>. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Adam and Eve must have found genealogy very boring.

My ggrandmother was born to a Roman Catholic family and she too divorced (we believe but family tales of the circumstances vary) @ 1866ish, she spent the rest of her life as a Member of the Presbyterian church. And she was not the only one of this Irish catholic family to marry and leave the church or maybe leave the church and marry. Eliz On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Laura <find.an.ancestor@gmail.com> wrote: > Good evening Cooksters, > > After hours of searching the newly posted Catholic records on FamilySearch > with ZERO sucess, I am wondering if I'm barking up the wrong tree. :o) I > hope someone on the list can help me. > > A French-born Catholic wife and mother divorced her German husband in 1874. > Days later she is married again, this time by a Justice of the Peace. Her > new husband is Swiss. Would the Catholic Church allow her to remain a > member? Recognize her second marriage? Could her children (born of the > second marriage) be baptized in the Catholic faith? > > I'm not sure if husband #2 was Catholic or even religious. But if the > Catholic Church didn't accept marriage #2, maybe the couple changed > religions? Gave up going to church? > > To add another twist, the woman's son (from marriage #1) took his own life > in 1912. Assuming he was Catholic, what would the Church's reaction be? I > mean, could he have a Catholic funeral etc? > > Any thoughts? I matched their three known addressed with city directory > church listings over a 30 year span and viewed 14 churches worth of records. > My propects are thinning rapidly... > > It's all relative, > > Laura > > PS - Do we have an ancestor in common? Check my family history web > site<http://livinginthepastlane.com/> or > my blog <http://livinginthepastlane.blogspot.com/>. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >