Liverpool Churches/Denominations

[Maiden Stone]

I don't know if this was common practice in other places or unique to Liverpool but researchers of Liverpool families with catholic ancestors often find C of E marriages of couples who were both catholic followed by RC baptisms and this was during the time RC marriages were legal. My great grandparents married at St Nicholas C of E in 1899. He was baptised at St Mary's RC, she was baptised at St Augustine's RC and their children were all baptised at St Augustine's RC.

Not unique to Liverpool. A pair of my R.C. 3xgreat-grandparents married at C.o.E. in Preston 1850. Children were baptised R.C.  Preston was once called "the most Catholic town in the most Catholic county of England". Another R.C. 3xGGF married his Anglican wife at a Catholic church in the town in 1843.
 Catholic in England weren't required to marry in the presence of a priest until 1908 (Ne temere decree on marriage).