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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Wexford => Topic started by: manus on Wednesday 18 February 09 19:07 GMT (UK)
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Hi All
Need some advice please. If someone was baptizeds a Protestant and then wanted to marry a Catholic would they have to be bapizeds a Catholic before they could marry. Also at the age of 27 would thay have to give their parent's name and address.
Kind Regards Manus
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I might be wrong but my Aunt had to convert to Catholicism when she married my Uncle. I dont know if that involved a baptism though.
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Hi Lisa thank you for your reply
I was hoping that she would have had to be re baptized that way I could have found out more information about her as it would have been in the same church that she got married in.
Regards Manus
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Hi Manus
If she converted to Catholicism, she would have had to have been part of a service which may have taken place in the church you mentioned? It's like a confirmation service and would have been listed in the church's records if that helps?
Lisa
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Hi Lisa Thank you for that I think I will write to the church and see if they can help as I know the church and the date of the wedding I have tried writing to a few church's about her Baptizm but never get a reply.
Regards Manus
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Hi Manus,
I can't add much to what Lisa told you already.
The key question here is 'where did they get married?'
If they got married in a Catholic Church, the non-Catholic would have to give an undertaking that all the children of the marriage would be brought up as Catholic. Although, as far as I know it was not mandatory for a non-Catholic to convert to Catholicism, it appears that most of them did.
If they got married in a non-Catholic Church there was no declaration and no need to convert.
Dara.
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Hi Oaks an Acorns
Thank you for your reply it was the Catholic Church of Kilnahue Gorey Wexford my Grandmother was a Protestant and she changed her religon to marry my Grandfather. the children were all Catholic's.
Regards Manus