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Thanks LimerickLad.

They were both RC as far as I know.  All their kids were baptised by RC chaplains in India.

Hi aghadowey

You’re right to pick me up on this.

My comment arose from a footnote in the article referred to in my earlier post which quotes from Aaron Crossley Hobart Seymour’s “The Life and Times of Selina Countess of Huntingdon. By a member of the Houses of Shirley and Hastings” (2 vols,1839), ii , 163 as follows:

“ ... with the sanction and advice of Mr. Shirley, the old Presbyterian meeting-house, in Plunket street, was rented.  For several years before its dissolution the church was in a very low state: the sentiments and preaching of the ministers who officiated were extremely unpopular, and but ill adapted to preserve the church from a languishing condition.  After some feeble attempts to revive the expiring interest, the society dissolved, and the meeting-house was disposed of to Lady Huntingdon.”

I have not followed up this reference but given that it was made by a biographer of Lady Huntingdon one perhaps needs to be cautious about how much weight to give to it - it is possible that there may be a particular religious bias to the assertions made about the Plunket Street ministers.

Thanks everyone.  I've written to the RCB to see if they are holding any records for these meeting houses.

However,  it has occured to me to wonder whether baptisms, marriages and burials might have had to be held in the Established Church at this time anyway.  Does anyone happen to know whether that was the case or not?

Thanks again.

Thanks Shane and Eadaoin.

Thanks Shane.
Much appreciated.
Cherrian