Good Morning everyone, I wonder if anyone can tell me if St Mary's Catholic Church Ryde has records available for the late twenties, early thirties? My problem is a long and complicated one, but in a nutshell:- My mother and father were married there as my mother claimed she was raised as a Catholic, but all research proves that to be false -she, like my father attended St John's Road School, unusual for a Catholic. At the time of her father's (my G'Father) death Sept 1931 she was living in George St Ryde. When her Mother (my G'Mother) died Dec 1933 she and my father were living in No 8 St Mary's Passage. My Sister was baptised into the Catholic faith in 1935, but by the time my brother was born in 1939 my mother was a Methodist the same as my father. There is a possibility that my mother's elder sister may have married into the Catholic Faith in Dec 1927 as she was married in the Catholic Church Ryde. What I wonder is, could my Grandmother and my Mother have been taken into the Cath! olic Church as Charity Cases after my Grandfather died -introduced by my Aunt perhaps? In order to live in a church house they would have had to convert to Catholicism. This would answer the question as to why, less than ten years later my mother left the faith. Had she been raised a Catholic, as I said earlier, it would have very hard for her to do so, but if she had endorsed the faith for only a short time...? Sorry I rambled on a bit, but as I said, it is a long and complicated story. Derek in Vanuatu 28C Cloudless sky, little wind.

According to a booklet compiled in 1989 by the Portsmouth (Catholic) Diocesan Archivist, the registers of Ryde St Mary are held in the parish. Baptisms date from 1845, marriages from 1856, and burials from 1866. The Isle of Wight Record Office has photocopies of baptisms 1845-1906, marriages 1856-1928, and burials 1866-1910. Alan McGowan Hampshire / IOW Family History Site http://website.lineone.net/~hantshistory ----- Original Message ----- From: "D & E" <deev@vanuatu.com.vu> To: <ISLE-OF-WIGHT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 9:15 PM Subject: [IoW] St Mary's Church Good Morning everyone, I wonder if anyone can tell me if St Mary's Catholic Church Ryde has records available for the late twenties, early thirties? My problem is a long and complicated one, but in a nutshell:- My mother and father were married there as my mother claimed she was raised as a Catholic, but all research proves that to be false -she, like my father attended St John's Road School, unusual for a Catholic. At the time of her father's (my G'Father) death Sept 1931 she was living in George St Ryde. When her Mother (my G'Mother) died Dec 1933 she and my father were living in No 8 St Mary's Passage. My Sister was baptised into the Catholic faith in 1935, but by the time my brother was born in 1939 my mother was a Methodist the same as my father. There is a possibility that my mother's elder sister may have married into the Catholic Faith in Dec 1927 as she was married in the Catholic Church Ryde. What I wonder is, could my Grandmother and my Mother have been taken into the Cath! olic Church as Charity Cases after my Grandfather died -introduced by my Aunt perhaps? In order to live in a church house they would have had to convert to Catholicism. This would answer the question as to why, less than ten years later my mother left the faith. Had she been raised a Catholic, as I said earlier, it would have very hard for her to do so, but if she had endorsed the faith for only a short time...? Sorry I rambled on a bit, but as I said, it is a long and complicated story. Derek in Vanuatu 28C Cloudless sky, little wind.