maria corcoran

[bidston]

cheers allan, you never know, one of the martin welsh birth i looked up had joannis as father too, i thought it was swedish or something

[Margaret in Burton]

I have come across lots of early parish registers that are in Latin, I think it was quite common.

Take a look at this:

http://freereg.rootsweb.com/howto/latinnames.htm

[kiterunner]

This one (where Maria Corcoran and her sisters were baptised) isn't an early parish register, though, Margaret, it's a mid-19th century one, but I think the Roman Catholic churches carried on using Latin in their registers much later than the C of E ones.

[Margaret in Burton]

Sorry had forgotten they were RC.

Yes certainly. We went to our local RC church to search the registers and some from the early 20th century were still in Latin. In fact my MIL's baptism in 1926 was as well.

[bidston]

thanks marg, fantastic site, stopped me looking up Swedish names for a start