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My Donnelly/Sheridan antecedents lived in tenements in Marrowbone Lane and were baptised and married in St Catherine of Alexandria church which happens to be around the corner from the closed church of St Catherine which is non-Catholic and at which my sister and I had spent considerable time imagining the lives of our ancesters. We felt a trifle foolish when we were directed to the right place!
However, it was a truly lovely experience to be able to pray in the church where our great grandmother was baptised and married. The Augustinian Brother who assisted us in looking up the records was wonderful as was his lay offsider. We grew up in Bendigo Australia and this diocese was founded by Augustinian Irish priests so it was all a happy coincidence.
Which is all to say that it is always worth a try asking to see the records if they have time. Mind you we are none the wiser as to gg grandmother's name on the Sheridan side but it was a great experience to see the original entry and to know Dad wasn't dreaming when he remembered names
- his mother and grandmother died the same year that he turned 15 and he wasn't renowned for remembering names!!
Margaret Fullarton
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