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Title: St Annes Chapel, Sutton, St Helens
Post by: D.Maciver on Wednesday 23 January 08 19:16 GMT (UK)
I have a marriage certificate for my g g grandfather, it reads St Annes Chapel, Sutton county of Lancashire.  Can anyone help with any info on the chapel, where it was and if it still exists.
Title: Re: St Annes Chapel, Sutton, St Helens
Post by: CU on Tuesday 29 January 08 14:01 GMT (UK)
St Anne and Bl Dominic Roman Catholic a handsome Gothic Church, with tower and Steeple, was built in sandstone. Opened in October 1853.
The church was heavily damaged by mining subsidence.

Taken from The Churches of St Helens by J F Giblin

I would try St Helen's Library for the registers.
Good luck
Title: Re: St Annes Chapel, Sutton, St Helens
Post by: CU on Tuesday 29 January 08 14:04 GMT (UK)
http://www.suttonbeauty.org.uk/suttonhistoryphotoalbum.html

Have a look here.
Title: Re: St Annes Chapel, Sutton, St Helens
Post by: D.Maciver on Tuesday 29 January 08 18:38 GMT (UK)
Many thanks for the link.
Denise
Title: Re: St Annes Chapel, Sutton, St Helens
Post by: Mojave59 on Saturday 31 January 09 07:25 GMT (UK)
Does anyone know of a Workhouse circa1911 in Sutton Lancashire.

Regards ellis2159
Title: Re: St Annes Chapel, Sutton, St Helens
Post by: CU on Saturday 31 January 09 10:12 GMT (UK)
Welcome to Rootschat ellis2159

I have sent you a PM re Sutton St Helens workhouse.

St Helens Library have wonderful photos of the area, it would
be a good idea to contact them.

Good luck
Title: Re: St Annes Chapel, Sutton, St Helens
Post by: Mojave59 on Saturday 31 January 09 14:00 GMT (UK)
Many thanks CU.
I will go to the library and view them.

Regards ellis2159
Title: Re: St Annes Chapel, Sutton, St Helens
Post by: CU on Saturday 31 January 09 14:21 GMT (UK)
Here is a link to St Helens Library

  http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/StHelens/library.html

Title: Re: St Annes Chapel, Sutton, St Helens
Post by: Dancing Master on Sunday 01 March 09 15:15 GMT (UK)
St Helens Library do have the baptismal records for St Anne's Church,  it was not named St Annes  & Blessed Dominic till after the 1960's.

These documents are in the archives and you need to request that they be brought out, but they are written in Latin.

I found a lot of mine but you will need to sort out the names into English as well.

They demolished the old church due to mining subsidence and built a modern church (which by the way I hate) and they also demolished the lovely stone built grotto and replaced that in a totally different design to the original.

Because of my family connections with the original parish and the original church I do have a sliver of the the wood from Blessed Dominics coffin from when the opened it up the last time in the 1940's.