Roman Catholic Church

Lucy's father, William Herbert , owned estates in Wales and the Welsh marches, although much of the family's large properties had been forfeited after they fought for the monarchy in the English Civil War...

Thomas Arnold (father of the future MAW ) abandoned Roman Catholicism and returned to the Church of England .

MAW 's father reconverted to Catholicism : a crushing blow to his family.

Edward Heneage Dering , second husband of GC , converted to Roman Catholicism .

ML 's father, Michael Laffan , was a Catholic , but had attended a Protestant school. He was the Custom House officer of Blackrock, County Dublin (a surprisingly high position for a Catholic to hold...

HM became finally estranged from her brother, John Henry Newman (after years of intellectual argument), when he converted to Roman Catholicism .

MD married Roy O. Stratton , a US naval commander, in Princeton, USA, in the vestry of a Roman Catholic church which would not allow a Protestant (Stratton) to be married in its sanctuary.

The marriage took place at her new mother-in-law's house in Blackfriars Road, London. Thomas Posthumous Hoby needed Margaret's money. A second son, born after his father's death, he was on bad terms with...

Charlotte's brother John became a Jesuit priest after converting to Roman Catholicism , without apparently upsetting the family.

Harriett's eldest brother, John Henry Newman , became first a clergyman and national religious leader of the Anglican Church , then a Catholic , and eventually a Cardinal. In 1828 John wrote to HM

The widowed mother of Lady Florence Douglas (later FD ) converted to Roman Catholicism and fled to Paris (and to the protection of the French Emperor ) with her younger children, lest their guardians should...

The marriage lasted only a little over a year. EW filed for divorce on 3 September 1929, after his wife was unfaithful to him. The rapid end of this marriage shook him badly. Since he...

Lady Winifred's mother, Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness and eventually Duchess of Powis , came from an influential Catholic royalist family. One of her great-grand-mothers was the Renaissance translator Elizabeth Russell (one of the famous Cook sisters)...

Winifred's father, William Herbert , was a major land-owner in the Welsh marches and Wales proper, a convinced and hereditary monarchist, as active in government as his Catholic religion allowed, a courtier and a soldier...

Thomas Burnet of Kemnay wrote the first of his surviving letters to CT ; he was at this date thinking of her as a potential wife, and was concerned to convert her from Roman Catholicism .