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Hello I have come across these 2 baptisms in my extended family and am just following the girl out of interest as she ended up in Clatterbridge Workhouse, maybe the boy too as this looks like her brother. Can somebody please translate this from Latin into English for me. TIA.


Neston, St Winefride's Catholic Church

Searching in FMP using the surname of Ryan and the father's name of Gulielmi (is that William?) I've come across one more baptism 10 years earlier in 1870.

I've done Catherine for you, using that you can probably work out the other two.

Catherine Ryan
Born 22 May 1870
Baptised 19 June 1870
Parents William and Rose Ryan Rose' s maiden name Fergus
Godmother Mary Ryan

The other name is that of the priest

Thomas Ryan was born in 1876 but not baptised until later

Thank you very much, I have now found them in the 1881 census.

Bedelia is the one I am most interested in, she is in the 1881 as Melia Rion.

Might be of interest

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/b ... ead/348615

Catholic names are often confusing, you may find this page of interest https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix ... iven_names

I've also often found that if the priest wasn't sure of the latin, he might also make it up, I usually try search RC records with a surname and range of dates and scan down the list to see if any catch my eye.

Yes Bertie that's the same family. The daughter Bedelia somehow managed to get out of the Workhouse, get married and have children. Her parents died in the workhouse at ripe old ages and are buried in the Catholic church in Neston, off the top of my head her father was there over 2 censuses but I don't know when they were admitted as apparently the Workhouse records for Clatterbridge haven't survived.

Thanks Mary that's very useful, I've bookmarked it for future reference.