Hello All, I have just got back from a week of research. (more below) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Temple" <marytemple@gmail.com> To: <WARWICK@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 2:47 AM Subject: [WAR] Roman Catholic Marriages > Hello Everyone > > My grateful thanks to all those who answered my query re Roman Catholic > marriages both on and off list. There were a mass of answers. You have given > me a great deal to think about. I do hope that others on the list who have > the same problems found the excellent material on line useful as well. It seems that my doubts that Brailles might have a RC community in the 1790s were misplaced. Warwick Records Office hold transcripts of RC records for Brailles as follows: Births/baptisms 1778-1844 Marriages 1785-1795, 1820-1865 Burials 1785-1789, 1820-1912 Confirmations 1779-1888. There are some RICHARDSON names there, but not your John RICHARDSON. I will send you some details off-list. One detail I found interesting was that the baptisms took place at the home of the parents of the child being baptised. Perhaps there was not a church as such at the time. The period I was looking at (c.1790) predates the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act by some forty years. > St Osgood's seems to be the church in question and I will follow that > through. If it was only finished in 1845 then my great grandparents must > have been among the earliest to have been married there!!! They were married > on 13 April 1846. It seems that there was a community called St Osberg's before the present church was built. Warwick Records Office hold microfilm of 1767-1807. It seems that our best bet for later years is St Chads in Birmingham - something for me to investigate perhaps next time I am in the Midlands Regards Peter > > Most interesting, thank you > > Mary > > Hello all >> >> I have a puzzle and who amongst has not! Well more than one actually, but >> they are related. >> >> My great grandparents Henry Richardson and Ann Thacker were married - >> according to the certificate - in the Roman Catholic Church in the >> District >> of Coventry and - again according to the certificate were - married in the >> Roman Catholic Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Roman >> Catholic Church by me J A A Clarkson and signed also by John Weston >> Registrar. This was on the thirteenth Day of April 1846. At the time of >> his >> marriage Henry was living at Town Wall in the City of Coventry and Anne in >> Harnall Lane in the City of Coventry. >> >> Does any one know the name of the Church please? >> >> I have also been told several times that a marriage in a Roman Catholic >> Chuch did not happen at this time, they were all married in C of E >> Churches >> first and then may be had their own ceremony later. Well we certainly have >> one here that did - does any one else have such a marriage???? Certainly >> the >> registrar was present and that made it legal. >> >> Certainly at least one partner, the Richardsons or the Thackers must have >> been Roman Catholic, perhaps both, but it has not come down this side of >> the >> family. Their son, Joseph, my grandfather, was married in St Andrews in >> Leicester. >> >> This may well be why I am having trouble finding the birth of Henry's >> father, John c1790 - which can be either in Brailles or Coventry according >> to which census is consulted. There is a RC Church in Brailles I notice. >> Some difficulty with William Thacker's birth and death, William was of >> course Ann's father. >> >> Does anyone else have the same problems please - trying to locate records >> that may have been Roman Catholic? >> >> Best wishes to all listers >> >> Mary >> Western Australia >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message