Manchester Catholic Parish Church - 1848

[Luzzu]

Gosh - now it gets really complicated  .

Another question - if a marriage is "Registrar Attended" what does this mean exactly - is it an indication of a Catholic marriage?

Presumably if ALL marriages were "Registrar Attended" it wouldn't be necessary to state this on the record.

 

Luzzu

[jds1949]

"Registrar Attended" can mean a Catholic marriage - or indeed any marriage other than an Anglican one. Only C of E clergy were legally empowered to register marriages - all other denominations had to have a civil registrar present. That remained the case until relatively recently.

jds1949

[Luzzu]

Apparently if a marriage certificate says "Married in the Catholic Church of St ?" without saying "According to the Rites and Ceremonies etc.," this means that when the couple arrived to get married, something unexpected had happened to the Priest, i.e., he was ill or indisposed or stuck in bad weather and was unable to conduct the ceremony.

The Registrar who would be in attendance would conduct the marriage and do all the legal bits and pieces but without the Priest the marriage could not be done by "According to the Rites and Ceremonies etc.,"  Then another official of the church would conduct the hymns, prayers.

Luzzu

[Toronto]

St Augustine's church was in use at that time frame. Read the following, I found this in a site that was about St Augustine's. My catholic GGgrandparents were married in this church. It was near London Road (Piccadilly railway station) in Granby Row.

Mike Morris
Toronto Canada
St. Augustine’s Parish (founded 1820) is one of the oldest in Manchester, only St. Chad’s, Cheetham Hill (1773) and St. Mary’s in Mulberry Street (1794) are older and all three were founded by the same tireless priest, Fr. Rowland Broomhead.

The first St. Augustine’s Church was built in 1820 on Granby Row, near the present day Manchester Piccadilly Train Station. At the time there were only 500 Catholics in the Manchester District, which included Bolton, Rochdale, Stockport, Glossop and Macclesfield. This first Church was sold and demolished in 1905 to make way for the Manchester Technical College which in turn became UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology). In 2004 UMIST merged with the Victoria University of Manchester to establish the University of Manchester.

[emmsthheight]

Hi Toromto

Thank you for the article.  I've used all three registers and knew they were old, but not that they were the earliest three.  The part that's especially interesting to me is the comment about the wider picture in the area.  I have family in Heywood and Rochdale as well, and Some werew married in Manchester and have early children before the Hetwood records started.  Maybe I should be looking in the Manchester registers!

Thank you again.

Emms