St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church is located between Congress and Court Streets in Brooklyn, New York. It was designed and built by Gamaliel King. Cornelius Heeney, an Irish Catholic merchant and philanthropist, donated the land for the church in 1836. The dedication of the completed church building took place on 21 January 1838.
During the period of the Great Famine and the early years after the founding of the Diocese of Brooklyn (formed in 1853), many Irish immigrants attended St. Paul's Church. Elizabeth Winters, the daughter of my 4th-great-grandparents Hugh Winters and Mary Bennet, was baptized at St. Paul's on 18 January 1851, when she was six days old.
References
St. Paul and St. Agnes, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens
St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church: The Irish Parish
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