Thanks for another perspective on the subject, Elwyn. No matter what, the road to true love never did run smooth.
Katie Katie On Apr 22, 2018, at 2:22 PM, elwyn soutter <[email protected]> wrote: > In my experience marriages between Presbyterians and members of the Church of > Ireland were pretty common and did not raise any eyebrows. Tradition was to > marry in the bride’s church, after which she’d attend her husband’s. But that > didn’t always happen. If you look at the 1901 & 1911 censuses you can find > plenty of families where they remained of different denominations after the > marriage. And although RC-Protestant marriages sometimes led to family > difficulties, there were plenty of those marriages, and they didn’t all lead > to feuding. > > > > Elwyn > > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Bob and Rosemary Spiller > <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Len and other knowledgeable Listers > > I know that a Protestant/Roman Catholic marriage would not have gone down > well in the north of Ireland. What about the son of a Church of Ireland > minister in Drumquin (near Omagh) marrying a Presbyterian circa 1839? This > was the case with my Pilkington forebears, or so I suspect without firm > evidence. I believe Presbyterians were agitating against compulsory tithing > and a strict, traditional minded established church minister may have seen > his son marrying a different sort of Protestant as being just as bad as a > Roman Catholic. Does this sound right to you? > > Finally - thank you for the constant supply of information you keep posting > on this site. It is greatly appreciated. > > Regards > > Bob Spiller > Lade Vale > NSW Australia > > On Sat, 21 Apr 2018 at 9:12 pm, Len Swindley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Katie, > > > > I have looked at the marriage entry for Hugh Devlin and Olivia Stinson and > have little doubt that this was a mixed marriage. A mixed marriage in the > North of Ireland would have caused great distress and this is reflected in > the names of the witnesses – both Devlins, perhaps indicating that none of > Olivia’s family attended the service. Am unable to speak of attitudes in > Dublin, only Tyrone. > > Regards, > > > > Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia > > > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > > > From: CoTyroneList <[email protected]> on behalf of > Katie Green <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2018 7:00:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CoTyroneMailingList] Derryloran Parish Church records > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 1:20 PM, Katie Green <[email protected]> wrote: > This is an interesting mailing to me because there are a couple of Devlin > marriages listed. The Devlins were almost universally Catholic, although “my” > Hugh Devlin married Olivia Stinson, almost surely a Presbyterian, in Arboe in > 1835. In Ontario after they emigrated they attended the Catholic Cathedral in > St. Catherine’s and all family births, etc. were registered there. Another > set of my ancestors from Dublin were Catholic and Protestant and fled the > wrath of parents to Quebec at about the same time (1830s)... and the breach > was never healed. They, too, registered as Catholic in Canada— I assume since > in both cases the husbands were Catholic and also the Cathollic Church was a > stickler about their rules. My question is: does anyone out there know what > the prevailing attitudes were in Tyrone and/or Dublin about “mixed” marriages > at various time periods? > > Katie Green > On Apr 19, 2018, at 7:10 AM, Jim McKane <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Derryloran Parish Church (St. Luran's Church of Ireland), Cookstown, Co. >> Tyrone Marriages 1845-50 > > > _______________________________________________ > CoTyroneList mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com > > _______________________________________________ > CoTyroneList mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com > > > _______________________________________________ > CoTyroneList mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com
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