Yelverton case
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Yelverton case
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The Yelverton case was a famous 19th-century Irish law case, which eventually resulted in a change to the law on mixed religion marriages in Ireland. Under a Statute of King George II, any marriage between a Catholic (Popish) and a Protestant or a marriage between two Protestants celebrated by a Catholic priest was null and void. Theresa Longworth, an English Catholic, and Major The Hon. William Charles Yelverton, an Irish Protestant, met in 1852. They became involved, but Charles insisted that
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