There were several Catholic/Protestant marriages among my own Co Fermanagh ancestors: 1. My GGG Grandmother Letitia Crawford, the daughter of a prosperous, Protestant merchant married the coachman, much to her parent’s dismay. He was poor and Catholic (and unemployed, once they eloped!). Their three daughters (Letitia, Annie, and Mary Jane) and son (Thomas Jr) were born near Enniskillen and raised in the Catholic church. The story passed down in my family from Letitia to her daughter, Annie to her daughter Anna Letitia is that the first Letitia regretted her decision, found living in poverty difficult, and died young. Her parents never forgave her, but may have seen their grandchildren upon occasion (but not often enough to save them from the workhouse in the late 1840s). The 3 girls immigrated to Australia or America between the ages of 14-16 to escape a difficult stepmother and the extreme poverty of the famine years. 2. At least two, and possibly all three of Letitia Crawford Connelly’s daughters married Protestant men. (1) Letitia Connelly (ca 1834-1899) married William Hayes, an immigrant from England, in Melbourne in 1856. (2) Mary Jane Connelly (ca 1836-1907) and her husband Peter Wilfong both joined the Methodist Church in Philadelphia, PA. and (3) Annie Connelly (1841-1899) who immigrated to Australia when she was only 14, married a Lutheran immigrant from Prussia, John Schnellan Pfeil in the Independent Church of Prahran, VIC in 1859. They agreed to raise their sons to be Lutheran and their daughters to be Catholic although many of their son’s descendants became Catholic 3. My Catholic Gr Grandfather, Henry Curran was born near Enniskillen in 1838. He immigrated to Queensland, Australia where he married Ann Weldon (who was also a Catholic from Enniskillen) on Apr 16