Hi its not unheard of for catholic families to have children baptised by a Church of Scotland minister, maybe there was'nt a catholic priest around at the time. Children were more than often baptised in the home and the event was recorded in the parish register. Hope that helps Margaret NZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerry McGregor" <gerry@mc-gregor.org.uk> To: <sct-renfrew@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 4:05 AM Subject: [SCT-RENFREW] Abbey, Renfrewshire > If someone's birth and christening is recorded as at Abbey, this does > mean > the area and not recorded at Abbey Parish church? This is the record I am > looking at. My family is RC not Church of Scotland. > > > > http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#birthYear=1819&surname > =mcgregor&birthPlaceLoc1=Renfrewshire%2C%20Scotland%2C%20United%20Kingdom&p= > recordResults&givenName=john&birthPlaceId=1927866&searchType=close > > > > Gerry McGregor > > "As long as there are leaves in the forest, > and foam on the river, McGregor's despite them, > Shall flourish forever." > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-RENFREW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi If the baptism is registered as 'Abbey' it means they lived in the parish of Abbey not that the ceremony took place in the Abbey church. I cannot get the link to work to show me where you found the info. It may not be unheard of to have an RC baby baptised in a Church of Scotland but it would be very unusual. Scotlandspeople now has early RC baptisms online. If the entry you found on the familysearch site was 'submitted' by a member of the LDS as opposed to being 'extracted' then you need to find it on Scotlandspeople to verify that it actually exists. People did change their religious affiliations ...commonly in order to marry someone of another religion ...so one cannot assume that because a family attended one church in the 20th century that they all attended the same church in the 19th. Irene its not unheard of for catholic families to have children baptised by a > Church of Scotland > minister, maybe there was'nt a catholic priest around at the time. Children > were more than often baptised in the home and the event was recorded in the > parish register. > > > > If someone's birth and christening is recorded as at Abbey, this does > > mean > > the area and not recorded at Abbey Parish church? This is the record I > am > > looking at. My family is RC not Church of Scotland. > > > > > http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#birthYear=1819&surname > > > =mcgregor&birthPlaceLoc1=Renfrewshire%2C%20Scotland%2C%20United%20Kingdom&p= > > recordResults&givenName=john&birthPlaceId=1927866&searchType=close > > > > > > > > Gerry McGregor > > > > "As long as there are leaves in the forest, > > and foam on the river, McGregor's despite them, > > Shall flourish forever." > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > SCT-RENFREW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-RENFREW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >