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Re: Catholics pretending to be Protestants in Ireland?
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 09 April 17 14:01 BST (UK) »
What folks put in the census is locked away for a century & therefore of little consequence in the scheme of things.

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Re: Catholics pretending to be Protestants in Ireland?
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 09 April 17 14:22 BST (UK) »
What folks put in the census is locked away for a century & therefore of little consequence in the scheme of things.

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Latest available census for Ireland is 1911- which could easily include people married in 1920s/1930s. When looking at Irish census records it's important to compare both 1901 and 1911 as it's not uncommon, for various reasons, to see different religions from one to the other.
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Re: Catholics pretending to be Protestants in Ireland?
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 09 April 17 16:32 BST (UK) »
Perhaps for the  safety of the child.

Religion was changed

To suit the times.

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Re: Catholics pretending to be Protestants in Ireland?
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 09 April 17 21:33 BST (UK) »
Perhaps for the  safety of the child.

Religion was changed

To suit the times.

In what way would the child be safer?



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Re: Catholics pretending to be Protestants in Ireland?
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 09 April 17 22:02 BST (UK) »
Why  should it not  ???

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Re: Catholics pretending to be Protestants in Ireland?
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 09 April 17 22:10 BST (UK) »
Safer from what?

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Re: Catholics pretending to be Protestants in Ireland?
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 09 April 17 22:15 BST (UK) »
War who is it good for. :o

There again might have been the mother in laws wishes ;D

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Re: Catholics pretending to be Protestants in Ireland?
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 09 April 17 22:16 BST (UK) »
Being a Presbyterian or RC excluded a child from university, inheriting land, getting an army commission etc. Irish Presbyterians crossed to Scotland for an education & Scotland of course had its own penal laws against non-conformists, Episcopalians for example!

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Re: Catholics pretending to be Protestants in Ireland?
« Reply #17 on: Sunday 09 April 17 22:23 BST (UK) »
This is about the 1920s and 1930s though which is a puzzling setting for "Catholics pretending to be Protestants in Ireland".


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