Speaking of distances that people traveled, here's an illuminating article I learned about on the County Down list: http://forgottenjourneys.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/fair-day-triangles-or-where-did-your.html John in NC On 2016/04/02 04:53 , Dave H. via wrote: > But people didn't have to attend their Parish Church, so where they > lived as such is irrelevant... > > I can show you plenty of records where people attended a Church in next > Parish or even the next, going back to early 1800's. > > Where I live the RC Church is on the bank of the river, the river is > Parish boundary... the next Church is 5 miles away OR 3 miles away over > another bridge but in another County! > > The people on opposite side of river don't travel 5 miles to the Church > in their Parish or 3 miles to the one in another county! > > You then have a couple who marry, maybe get land to lease 3 mile away in > another Parish, do they get children baptised in that Parish.... or the > 'home' Parish? > > > As to your questions..... the likes of Cathriona at the Library would be > who to ask, she's the County Historian! > > DH > > > > > On 02/04/2016 08:01, [email protected] wrote: >> FERMANAGH-GOLD Parish of Roslea >> To:<[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> This is going over ?old ground? maybe, but it arises now because many pre-1862 church records of baptisms and marriages did not record the residents? townlands. Only the (church) parish e.g. Tydavnet, Roslea, Clones was noted. So the (church) parish boundary is important to trying to figure out where the families were living at the time. This is separate to the question of ?civil parishes? in which the constituent townlands are well defined and understood. >> >> My question is: >> - In the 1800s, were any Monaghan townlands within the Roslea Parish boundary? Is yes, which ones? >> - In the 1800s were any townlands in that area of Fermanagh/Monaghan switched from one (church) Parish to another, e.g. from Roslea parish to Tydavnet or vice versa? >> >> I have tried to find some references that might cover this with little success. Any suggestions are welcome. >> >> James > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > ========================= > https://www.facebook.com/groups/FermanaghGold/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >