tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post7003600969826622831..comments2023-12-24T11:20:38.708+00:00Comments on The Muniment Room: Catholic England And Wales In 1863: An IntroductionTtonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185875893212146794noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-50616277974892425982014-11-03T16:28:53.549+00:002014-11-03T16:28:53.549+00:00The laity Hmmm!
In the recently re-emerged bits of...The laity Hmmm!<br />In the recently re-emerged bits of my mother's family's lost catholic ancestry 19thCentury,one prod generation , long story, but the point is that certain marriages and decisions ONLY make sense if the faithful were still in a mental universe from before emancipation let alone the reestablishment of the hierarchy - all stuff that had been as you might say decided in westminster?<br />Equally I can remember upper Teesedale in the fifties - the very clanny local catholic families whose constancy I honour were still in an inherited state of nursing their annoyance against the changes and "italianate ways" (includes nonlocal and probably Irishextraction catholics )at the end of the 19th century - of course 1864 with a longlived priest and a whathave you (Catholic gentry) might not have been until 40 years later.<br />Newspapers, etc, they had the modern world, as they saw it , not our view of them ,but what WAS E&W catholic lay mentality like ?- nor I don't think the different generations of Irish migrants were as we think , neither.<br />Mike Cliffsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06405021835510775527noreply@blogger.com