Hi Loretta, Yes, that makes total sense. Anglican is interchangeable with Church of England and the Church or Ireland is the Irish branch of that. Episcopal means "church", derived from Latin, I think, so it is often used as a synonym for the Church of England or Anglicans. The Church of England was created by Henry VIII in the 1530s when he split with the Roman Catholic church over the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. As such it became the established church in England but its doctrines were not that dissimilar to the Catholic church. The Presbyterians on the other hand, had considerable doctrinal differences with the Catholic church, and my Presbyterian parents' and their generation often spoke scathingly of their Church of Ireland neighbours as only having a "paper wall" between them and the Catholics. They weren't proper Protestants in other words! The nuances of these religious differences are always hard for those outside of Ulster to understand. Even though both Presbyterians and Catholics were discriminated against by the Church of England dominated governments for over 300 years, and although my parents may have sneered at their Church of Ireland neighbours, nevertheless, when push came to shove, both the Presbyterians and the Church of Ireland were Protestants and both discriminated against Catholics. Those were sectarian times, you will understand, and have largely disappeared now, thank goodness. Hope this clarifies things a little. And explains why a Church of Ireland church (often called a Parish Church) should not be confused with a Presbyterian church. Boyd Gray http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/Boyd/default.htm http://www.westulstergenealogy.com/ http://preview.tinyurl.com/yk7gckr -----Original Message----- From: Loretta Layman [mailto:lynneage@h-o-l.com] Sent: 08 December 2011 21:46 To: boydgray26@utvinternet.com; DONEGALEIRE@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [DONEGALEIRE] Spot the mistakes - P.S. Well, I did have a lapse of memory. The book to which I had referred was about the Anglican Church, not Presbyterian. The couple I was studying at the time were Presbyterians, but the wife somehow ended up in her old age living in New York's Trinity Chapel Home for Aged Women, owned and operated by Trinity Church. That church's history says the Protestant-Episcopal denomination was founded by Anglicans in Manhattan and that the Anglican Church was often called simply Church of Ireland. Does that make sense? Loretta SNIP