Hi! David, I know of a family who were all Catholics but one sister had married a non-Catholic. When he realised he was dying, he said he didn't want to be all alone in the Anglican churchyard so became a Catholic on his deathbed and was buried in the Catholic Churchyard with the rest of the family and where he was joined by his wife years later. Perhaps this was the reason your relative changed his religion so late in life too? Regards, Eileen --- -- Original Message ----- From: "David Allan" <davidm.allan@ntlworld.com> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 9:17 AM Subject: [DUR-NBL] Thanks! > Thanks to everyone who replied to my query relating to my grandparents' > register office wedding that took place in 1919. Basically, as I hadn't > come > across any other such weddings in my family history, it sort of begged the > question as to why? > > I had a hunch already as to the possible reason and after reading the > replies to my posting, my hunch has been reinforced. I suspect strongly > that > my grandfather was Catholic with a Catholic mother. It looks as though his > father was not born into the Catholic faith but was sort of moving in that > direction, probably because of his wife's influence (I have only > discovered > recently that he was baptised in the Catholic church at Tow Law in County > Durham when he was 57, just three years before he died). I feel certain he > would have been baptised when he was a child, but maybe that was in an > Anglican church and he didn't feel that counted! >