Family talk:Reinhard Ayd and Maria Wernig (1)

Ayd-Wernig marriage [15 June 2012]

I was looking back through my wife's notes from our trip to Baltimore a couple of years ago and I had never realized that she had found Eva and Joseph's marriage date! Woo-hooo! She'd written it in on one of the family group sheets and I guess we missed it when we moved info over.--Sketchdon 01:19, 14 June 2012 (EDT)

That is a great find! Is their marriage church "St. John's" the same as the later referenced "St. James" (see St. James the Less) and part of the same St. James' parish? --Cos1776 15:04, 14 June 2012 (EDT)

Followup - Additional notes on German Catholic churches of Baltimore at the time:

* St. John German Church (est. 1799-1841), Saratoga Street and Park Avenue, Community became St. Alphonsus, Religious: Redemptorists

* St. Alphonsus Church (est. 1845)*, Park Avenue and Saratoga Street, Baltimore MD 21201 (Cathedral Hill) 410-685-6090, Religious: Redemptorists, (*German parish, 1845-1917; Lithuanian parish 1917- )

* St. James the Less (1834-1986)*, Aisquith & Eager Streets, Baltimore MD, Religious: Redemptorists, (*German parish after 1841; Sacramental Registers transferred to Archdiocesan Archives in 1986)

--Cos1776 18:00, 14 June 2012 (EDT)

It's a bit confusing... but as I understand it, St. John's German came first, then was replaced later by St. Alphonsus around 1845 or so. St. James the Less was already being built, because the German population was growing faster than the churches... so it was finished, then St. Alphonsus, so they had two churches in the area to take care of the Germans.--Sketchdon 21:46, 14 June 2012 (EDT)