Hi Su, In this statement "As regards the parish records, materials therein are sometimes of a confidential nature, but I will furnish you with the details relevant to your enquiry as follows:" I agree with him here, a lot (or should I say MOST) of the information contained in the Parish Registers is not relevant to any individual enquiry. Each page of the register contains other peoples records that should really be just for their family use and that of the priest. So on this point I have to agree. I was down in a Parish office (somewhere in Wexford) where the registers had been almost destroyed by someone from overseas who had torn whole pages out of the books and in some cases others had taken just the relevant bits for themselves. It was obvious to me that they had gone in with a razor blade to deliberately do this! They had not only taken their piece of information but that also of the entry from the preceding page belonging to someone else! THIS DOES NOT HELP US with the attitudes of the Priests believe me! Now regarding the registers showing people who have married overseas. Yes you get a lot of this. A lot of people, usually those who were born, baptised and confirmed in one parish return and let the priest know of it. Sometimes this is done as a result of them running away and getting married for various reasons, (they would produce a copy of their marriage cert to the priest) he would then make the entry for confirmation. Sometimes the local Priest wouldn't sanction a particular marriage (maybe mixed?). There could be a number of reasons, but it did go on quite a lot. I didn't get on with one particular (Irish) priest in the UK and refused to have my son Baptised over there, so we waited a couple of years and brought him home here and had him done in my old Church and Confirmed in the local Parish Church! So it could have been for a number of reasons really. Likewise, I can now go back to the UK and notify the local priest he has been done over in Ireland if I wanted. slan Cyril Newsome Loch Garman... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Su Brown" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 5:48 AM Subject: [WEX] New Ross > Hi > > THe Priest in New Ross is > > > Father B Cushen > Parochial House, Ramsgrange, New Ross, Co. Wexford. > Phone: 051 389148 > > [email protected] > > > I wrote (Snailmail) to him and enclosed my email address. He was helpful. > > This is part of his email > "As regards the parish records, materials therein are sometimes of a > confidential nature, but I will furnish you with the details relevant to > your enquiry as follows:" > > I'm not sure what was confidential, although he did have my grandparent > wedding dates in England which suprised me. Does any one know if this was > common practise. The recording of other family events. > > I've not had any dealing with Yola, but because of their bad reputation we > are planning a trip to Wexford in September so we can visit Wexford libary > and do our own research. > regards > Su > in sunny Bedforshire England > > > ==== WEXFORD Mailing List ==== > DO NOT post virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, etc. > > >