Thank you for your response Chris. The other 8 children were all born in the U.S. I've never had any indication that the father was Quaker. I don't know their church affiliation in the U.S.; I always assumed it was Presbyterian. Barbara Shannon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Langdon" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 4:58 AM Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] National Register of Quakers > Hi Barbara, > > Were the other children listed in the Quaker Register? Was the father Quaker? Marriages would generally be in the bride's church. > > There's some information about the National Register of Quakers and the Quakers in Ireland in the following: > http://www.northernirelandancestry.com/ChurchRecords.htm > > Chris Langdon > > On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 at 08:13:35 -0500 > From: "Barbara Shannon" <[email protected]> said: > Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Help Please - National Register of Quakers > > I recently looked at Raymond's site and found a birth record for my > great-grandparents first child, Agnes Shannon. The source is listed as > National Register of Quakers. > > I find this information very curious because everything I've found > previously indicated that they were Reformed Presbyterians; including a > record of their marriage less than a year prior. > > I've googled this register and couldn't find an adequate explanation of > these records. Would this indicate that they were Quakers at the time of > their daughter's birth or is there another explanation? > > Barbara Shannon > > > > > --------------------------------- > 469 list members as of 8 Jan 2009 > --------------------------------- > Searchable list archive at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/NIR-DOWN > ------------------------------- > 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