Hi Roy, Never confused Roy just not 100% sure how the Law was put into practice... I have certainly seen in the Anglican registers with the event listed as by popeish rights. There is also a Catholic chapel in Sheffield's Anglican Cathedral I believe it was the private chapel of the Earl of Shrewsbury so I suppose any RC Ceremony could have taken place there with the records being placed in the Anglican records. The RC 's had used the Duke of Norfolk's town house in Sheffield as a place of worship not sure what happened when St Marie's was built on the same site in 1848ish......Probably went round the corner to the Anglican Parish church. I am sure that the RC's were also buried in Anglican churchyards by necessity. As I said different areas probably dealt with the Law in many different ways....... But you comments taken on board. Regards. Elaine Pickard, Ottawa. Canada Sheffield Indexers. http//www.sheffieldindexers.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Roy Stockdill Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:43 AM To: eng-yorkshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [YORKSHIRE] Given-Name Change? On 27 Oct 2010 at 11:15, Elaine Pickard wrote: > Don't forget that Catholics by Law would have had their children baptised > at the local > Anglican church in 1800.< I think you may be slightly confused, Elaine, with respect. Certainly, Catholics had to marry in the Church of England, under Hardwicke's Marriage Act, from 1754-1837, but they still carried out their own baptisms and burials in 1800. I don't believe it was compulsory for them by law by then to baptise their offspring in the Anglican Church. It may well be that many did, in fact, baptise their children in the C of E because there weren't that many Catholic churches and chapels around at the time - the number of Catholics was no more than 250,000 in 1811 - and those that were were often private chapels on the estates of the older aristocratic Catholic families. These chapels were mostly used by the family and their servants (who probably had little choice). Catholics had to marry in the C of E under Hardwicke's Act, the only exceptions allowed being Quakers and Jews - but they could still perform baptisms in their own religion. There were Catholic marriage ceremonies as well, but they weren't valid in civil law and a couple had to marry as well in the parish church, often on the same day or within a couple of days. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-YORKSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.864 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3222 - Release Date: 10/27/10 02:34:00