Many, many marriages of this time period were not registered at the courthouse, and it wasn't required, by law, till much later. So, for marriages not listed , you must find church records, family bible records, etc. I can't find anything on Catholic Churches in Belmont till about the 1840s, but that's not to say there wasn't one...or, more probably, a "traveling" priest who visited many areas and had no main church building. Perhaps someone else will know of other Catholic congregations in Belmont co, early on. -----Original Message----- From: BPerk930@aol.com <BPerk930@aol.com> To: ferg@intelos.net <ferg@intelos.net> Date: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 12:55 PM Subject: Re: [OHBELMON-L] Dovenberger, Mitchell, Berry Sandra, Did people frequently m. without registering in the courthouse? I've been researching in Washington co. and find that most people are married by a JP and register at the courthouse. I hadn't considered that they might not.....I notice that there were many Irish immigrants in Belmont. Robert was supposedly b. Ireland. Does this mean that, in the early 1800s, there were Catholic churches there? Brenda