General Chat

I have just last week been helping a friend find her Roman Catholic baptism certificate. We got in touch with the nearest R.C. church to where she was born and they had the baptism record there. When they sent us a copy it also had recorded on it the date and church of her confirmation and also the date and church of her marriage (she already knew these).

My friend has always lived in the north-east of England but she knew she had been born in the south. The Catholic church seems to keep all records tied together as it were because she didn't expect the church where she was baptised to have the details of her confirmation and her marriage which were both in the north-east. The baptism certificate did name the godparents.

If you have your late husband's birth certificate it may be worth contacting the nearest Catholic church to where he was born.

For your own godparents if you know when and where you were christened then you should either contact the church itself or the county records office for the area and the details of your christening should be with them.

Kath. x

Are the names of Godparents recorded anywhere and if church of baptism/christening is not known is there anyway of locating it. ie my late husband was confirmed into the Roman Catholic faith but I do not know where or when but probably about 1947 and I know one of his godmothers' was a Miss Bagley. I know when and where I was christened but not who my godparents were. I remember I had to give the names of the godparents to the vicar when my children were christened so I would think they had to be recorded somewhere.