Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

best wishes to all for 2012 its been quite a while since i was able to get back to my research

please can you help

i would like to know how i can search the catholic parish records from the year 1800 back i dont know the exact churches possibly those in Sefton
would be
most grateful for any help
also does any one know of a site for dublin records from the year 1821

blue43 wrote:does any one know of a site for dublin records from the year 1821

Hi Blue, and a good New Year to you.
The only sites I know where there is a chance of 1821 records for Dublin apart from FamilySearch [the old site] are...

1) The Irish Family History Foundation http://www.rootsireland.ie/
It's free to search but costs 5 Euro to see detail on a record [abt £4.50];
And..
2) Irish Genealogy at http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/index.html
This is a government-sponsored site but it is totally free. Records are being added to the database slowly but it at least it is free.

DS

The National Archives site gives some information regarding Catholic registers. More full information here http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/reco ... holics.htm but just a small paragraph which seems particularly relevant

"Very few Catholic birth, marriage and death registers are kept at The National Archives. There are 77 in total, most of which are baptism registers, and they are found in record series RG 4, viewable on one of our partner websites, BMD Registers, searchable by name. They were collected together when the Registrar General called in the non-parochial registers in 1837 and 1857, part of the process of establishing the new system of civil registration. Perhaps so few Catholic registers were surrendered because they contained records of illegal marriages, since between 1754 and 1837, under the terms of Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act, it was a legal requirement to marry in the Church of England. "

Lancashire is mentioned in the list of counties in RG4.

Hi Blue43,

I don't know of any RC churches in the time you are looking for, the only church I can think of (I think CofE) is Sefton St Helen.

There are records on this site http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Liverpool/Sef ... index.html

Jan

If you mean the village of Sefton the oldest RC church would be St Bennet Netherton. There is a copy of their register at Lancashire Record Office. Other old RC churches in the area would be Little Crosby and Holy Family Ince Blundell.

Have a look at Lancashire Record Office website and search on the RC parish registers section.

Also see what copies Local History Sefton have at Crosby library

Also look on Liverpool Record Office to see what RC registers they have.

All of these will involve visiting the appropriate repository.

Pre 1837 they would have had to marry at the C of E church to be legal so you should be able to track down marriages that way. Also many burials took place at the nearest C of E. For instance many people living within the parish of Sefton would be buried at Sefton church but the older regsiters would record Catholic, Papist or Romanist.