That marriage records was from Church of St. John the Evangelist (Episcopal) - not Roman Catholic. It was located at 3rd and Reed Street, Philadelphia > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:29:12 +0000 > Subject: [PAPhl] St John the Evangelist, Philadelphia > > I have just found a record of the marriage of two of my relatives at the > church of St John the Evangelist in Philadelphia. The marriage was in 1887 > between Ebenezer Clarke and his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Clarke. Ebenezer > was a ship's carpenter. The home of both of them was Seacombe, Cheshire, > England. Elizabeth had married Joseph Clarke at Liverpool, England in 1864. > Joseph was also a mariner who disappeared from the records in the 1880s. It > is not known if Joseph died or had deserted Elizabeth. > > > > This raises a number of questions: > > > > 1. Why did Elizabeth travel all the way from England, probably leaving > her young children in the care of her sister, to marry? Ebenezer, being a > mariner, could well have been there anyway. It is possible that they did not > know if Joseph was still living and wanted to have a bigamous marriage away > from those who might find out. The difficulty with this is that they both > immediately went back to England to live openly as man and wife. > > > > 2. I understand that the Church of St John the Evangelist is Roman > Catholic. Ebenezer and Elizabeth were certainly not Catholics, very > definitely Protestants. Is there another Church of St John the Evangelist in > Philadelphia that is Protestant. This is the main question that I am putting > to the List. > > > > David Railton > > Cheshire > > England > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAPHILAD > ********* > ------------------------------- > 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