-----Original Message----- From: alan potter [mailto:goodhopes@bigpond.com] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 12:40 PM To: Fran Luby Subject: RE: Catholic Churches Fran, You will probably not find baptisms or any ceremony from a Catholic church for the years mentioned as until the Emancipation Act 1829, except for Jews and Quakers all marriages etc were illegal except if performed and registered in an Anglican church. You can search for your names via the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) Internet Family Search by going to: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountryE ngland.htm Select Lancashire, Preston and generally follow the instructions.Only search by surname. The internet information will give you the dates, family details etc. The Internet information will not give you the religion. For that you will have view the actual film copy of the Parish Register (unless you are visiting England this may be easiest via your nearest Latter Day Saints Family History Centre) when you will see that if the clerk has put the comment 'Papist' against the entry, this is probably the person you are looking for. -----Original Message----- From: Fran Luby [mailto:fluby@ameritech.net] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 11:47 AM To: ENG-LANCS-PRESTON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Catholic Churches Could someone tell me what Catholic churches were around in 1810 and 1820 in Preston. Found relatives in Catholic Census and want to find baptism records. Thank you, Fran ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx