Hi, Geri Merkey posted a VERY interesting question and one that I've wondered about for years..... except my Catholic ancestors in Clinton Co were IRISH and ENGLISH, but were definately Catholic. I've been told that my English g.g.grandmother was the one who was Catholic and it appears they lived in Champlain when they were first married. Their first child was born in July 1844...but I can't find a marriage record or birth records for this family. Where would the Irish and English Catholic families get married in northern Clinton Co? Would they go back into Canada, perhaps or wait for a traveling priest to visit? Time period would've been about 1840 - 44. A very frustrating search! Thanks, Mary [email protected] Hi List, This may be a really stupid question, but where did Catholics, particularly French-Canadian Catholics living in Clinton County, get married and buried and have their children baptized pre-1850's? It seems that all of the church records start around 1850. Were there mission churches in Canada who sent a priest down to do these? If so, where would those records be? Like a lot of us on this list, I lose my French Canadian ancestors' trails once they cross the border into New York, and can't pick them up again until I find them in Michigan. Thanks! Geri Merkey