Brickwall: Seeking (prob Catholic) Marriage Record of Edwin Lowrie & Miss Grosche

Question

Please help me break down a brick wall in my research.

I am seeking the (probably Catholic) marriage record of Edwin Lowrie to Henrietta/Laura Grosch in or around New Orleans, Louisiana, about 1865/6. They had legal issue-- a daughter-- in 1867.

See the Grosch profile for more details. Highlights (my current theory):

Edwin, from Massachusetts, was in the Civil War; he mustered out in New Orleans; within two years he and Laura/Henrietta Grosch had a child, Henrietta Lowrie; I have her birth record. I believe the wife/mother was Catholic. Not so sure about Edwin.

Seeking someone who can help me get access to Catholic church records to find the marriage record of Edwin and Laura/Henrietta.

Thank you.

Comments

I have run into the same problem. The only way I have been able to get catholic records is to pay the fee to the churches for the searches and that can get costly.

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Jacky, have you had experience with Louisiana Catholic church records?

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No just Catholic church records in several states. They have all required a fee for a search even if you know the dates. I just assume it is common practice.

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I believe the old Catholic records are stored at the diocese level in Louisiana. Not sure.  Somewhere I read that I would have to know the address of the person in order to have the old records searched.  Of course, I don't know the address...

Answer 1

Here are 133,814 Louisiana Marriages between 1816-1906

Louisiana, Marriages, 1816-1906

133,814

04 Mar 2012

 

For a broader range of topics including the one above, here is the site:

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list

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Thanks, Frank. I've already scoured the Louisiana and New Orleans marriage records available through familysearch (and elsewhere) with no luck.  Found the daughter's birth, marriage and death records, but not Edwin's marriage.

Also have found no birth record for a female named Henrietta or Hortense or Laura Grosch (var. spellings) the right time frame (about 1845-1850). Nor could I find her in the 1850 or 1860 census records. Nor a death record for her. She either died or Edwin left her before 1876 (when he marries in NYC). She's a huge mystery to me.

I have a pretty solid (but still not 100% confirmed) theory about Edwin. Turns out he's my "gateway" ancestor to colonial New England (and up to the infamous Ambrose Fish!)