I wonder if any listers in the Skipton area might happen to know if the Broughton Hall Roman Catholic Chapel, the private chapel of the Tempest family, still exists? Despite Googling and checking my reference books, I have not been able to establish this. I know that Broughton Hall is now a major business park (still belonging to the Tempests, I believe) but I couldn't find a mention of the chapel. My reason for asking is that I was mildly surprised to discover from the IGI that one SYLVESTER BRACEWELL, a colateral ancestor of mine who was baptised at Kirkby Malham on 16 July 1758 (he was a brother of my 4x great-grandfather William Bracewell) apparently christened three sons there in the 1790s. Sylvester married Nanny (or Nancy) PARKER at Kirkby Malham on 3 June 1777 and they had three sons called Silvester (1792), Jonathan (1795) and Marcus (1798), all baptised at Broughton Hall Catholic Chapel, Broughton in Airedale, about 3 miles west of Skipton. I believe the records are now at TNA at Kew. I can only assume that Sylvester Bracewell was a worker on the Broughton estate and perhaps he had no choice other than to baptise his children as Catholics there. I make this point because in 40 years of research I have never found any other member of my family in any other line who was a Roman Catholic. The Tempest family were of course well-known Catholic Recusants and perhaps they enforced their religion upon their workers. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE