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Baptised twice in two different churches

  • 29-10-2014 4:40pm
    #1
    Newstreet
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭


    I have two baptisms from the St.Michan church records, in 1792 and 1794.

    Lo and behold, while checking the family name on Rootsireland, who have the St.Paul church records for Arran Quay, I find the very same two baptisms, with the very same parents and sponsors, on the exact same dates, in the St.Paul records. Other records do not appear, just these specific two.

    So were they baptised in St.Michan or St.Paul parish, and how might two baptisms both appear twice in two different churches on the same date? St.Michan RC church dates from 1810, and St.Paul from 1835, so where did the original parishioners worship, and is this why the records overlap?

    Any thoughts welcome.


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  • #2
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    One may have been merged, parish-wise, with the other and records transcribed.

    In rural areas, often chapels of ease would have their own records which were meant to be transcribed back to the parish church at intervals which can lead to this but I've not seen it in Dublin as yet.

    You may need to see the original records to figure out what is going on - is the image link present and working for them?


  • #3
    Newstreet
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭Newstreet


    No images, unfortunately... :(


  • #4
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Newstreet wrote: »
    No images, unfortunately... :(

    To the NLI with you then! Well, check that they have the films there first


  • #5
    shanew
    Registered Users Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    Newstreet wrote: »
    .....and St.Paul from 1835, so where did the original parishioners worship..

    The previous chapel for the parish of St. Paul was adjacent to where the larger one was opened in 1835.

    'St. Paul's parish comprises the Protestant parish of Grangegorman, the principal part of St. Paul's, and parts of St. Michan's and Glasnevin. The duty is performed by a parish priest and six officiating clergymen. The chapel on Arran-quay having been found to be too small, another, near the entrance of the old building, is now completed with the exception of the portico and steeple' (Lewis 1837)


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