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The first church in Grenada was French Roman Catholic and about 1718 the Notre Dame du Bon Secours Catholic Church. A tiny number of Irish Roman Catholic remained on the island as part of the Irish Brigade military contingent under Count Arthur Dillon and his brother Edward in 1779. In 1800 the government of the island formally appropriate lands owned by the Roman Catholic Church for ''the more comfortable maintenance of the Protestant Clergy of Grenada''. Not until 1827 that the first Irish priest arrived in Grenada, a Fr. O'Callaghan. He was followed by Fr. Anthony O Hannan, who caused a rift in the Catholic Church in St. George’s and set up his own church for six years at the building in Lucas Street, still known today as 'La Chapelle'. It was in 1818 that the Catholic Cathedral was rebuilt. In 1852 the RC Priest Francis de Casta was naturalized. | The first church in Grenada was French Roman Catholic and about 1718 the Notre Dame du Bon Secours Catholic Church. A tiny number of Irish Roman Catholic remained on the island as part of the Irish Brigade military contingent under Count Arthur Dillon and his brother Edward in 1779. In 1800 the government of the island formally appropriate lands owned by the Roman Catholic Church for ''the more comfortable maintenance of the Protestant Clergy of Grenada''. Not until 1827 that the first Irish priest arrived in Grenada, a Fr. O'Callaghan. He was followed by Fr. Anthony O Hannan, who caused a rift in the Catholic Church in St. George’s and set up his own church for six years at the building in Lucas Street, still known today as 'La Chapelle'. It was in 1818 that the Catholic Cathedral was rebuilt. In 1852 the RC Priest Francis de Casta was naturalized. | ||
At least seven early [[Grenada Online Genealogy Records | Roman Catholic parish registers]] (nearly 340 pages) have survived and have been digitized but not yet indexed. Some census records were collected sometimes as far back as the mid-seventeenth century. For example the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/219655 French Guadeloupe Census for 1669] — 1749 list Grenada. After 1864 RC parish records would have to have been formally kept. | |||
=== Anglican Church Records === | === Anglican Church Records === | ||