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Title: Catholic baptisms in Etruria / Hanley and Burslem late 1840s and 1850s
Post by: Deirdre784 on Thursday 28 January 16 18:36 GMT (UK)
Hi, can anyone suggest where Catholic children born in Etruria / Hanley and Burslem in the late 1840s and 1850s might have been baptised?

Thanks :)

Edited to add.... Separate families, a son from one family married a daughter from the other in St Mary and St Patrick Catholic Church school in Hanley in 1881. No baptisms found for any of the children from either family, though both sets of parents were married in the Church of England.
Title: Re: Catholic baptisms in Etruria / Hanley and Burslem late 1840s and 1850s
Post by: clayton bradley on Thursday 28 January 16 21:55 GMT (UK)
Have you tried Michael Gandy's Catholic Missions and Registers 1700-1880 volume 2 The Midlands and East Anglia? Sorry, I don't have a copy.
Title: Re: Catholic baptisms in Etruria / Hanley and Burslem late 1840s and 1850s
Post by: Deirdre784 on Thursday 28 January 16 22:05 GMT (UK)
No, never heard of it sorry. Might I find it in a library do you think?

Edited: found a copy to buy, thanks Clayton
Title: Re: Catholic baptisms in Etruria / Hanley and Burslem late 1840s and 1850s
Post by: clayton bradley on Friday 29 January 16 19:07 GMT (UK)
Glad to hear it. cb
Title: Re: Catholic baptisms in Etruria / Hanley and Burslem late 1840s and 1850s
Post by: Deirdre784 on Friday 29 January 16 20:44 GMT (UK)
I found a copy last night and put it in my basket (£6) but didn't have my debit card on me so left it until today. Strangely I now can't find it, though there are plenty of references to the series online. Will look again tomorrow  :)

Update: found it again and now ordered. Thanks.
Title: Re: Catholic baptisms in Etruria / Hanley and Burslem late 1840s and 1850s
Post by: Deirdre784 on Thursday 04 February 16 19:47 GMT (UK)
If anyone else is interested in tracing Catholics in the Midlands, there is an amazing online book detailing all the parishes (old and new) in the Archdiocese of Birmingham on their website.
http://www.birminghamarchdiocesanarchives.org.uk/book_history.asp