1. I was reading about the Friary being the only parish church in Wexford Town until 1858. Would my family from Newbay have attended this church?
2. Also, I can't wait to see the twin churches. How did people decide which one to belong to?
3. If I had family living in The Faythe (fishermen) would they have gone to a particular church? How about family living on Main Street South and Corn market?
4. Also, where would Catholic burials from the mid 1800s to early 1900s have been? I don't have any illusions of finding graves for family members (my grandmother was buried in a pauper's grave in Liverpool in 1919) but I do wonder what grave yards they might have been associated with.
Thanks,
Maureen
1. Newbay was part of the parish of Wexford, so they should have attended church in Wexford.
2. You did not/do not "belong to" either of the parish churches, that is Rowe St and Bride St. They are both parochial churches of the same parish. Bride St. serves predominantly the south side, Rowe St. the north. But you can go to either. In fact, all three Catholic churches are close together.
3.In the Faythe, they would probably have gone to either Bride St. and/or the Friary. Although the Friary was not the parish church, it was and remains very popular. When I was growing up, we normally went to the Friary, even though Rowe St. was closer.
From Cornmarket - Rowe St. and Friary most probable.
From Main St. Depends on whether north or south.
4. Burials could have been almost anywhere. Before the opening of the municipal cemetery in Crosstown in the 1890s, there were about 7 graveyards within the town, plus people were buried in many surrounding graveyards. For example, I have relatives who lived in the town who were buried in Drinagh, Whitechurch, and Ardcolm, as well as within the town itself. Depended to a large degree on where previous generations were buried.