New Book on Rev Rowland Broomhead

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biography, catholic, history, Manchester

We are pleased to announce the publication of the much anticipated biography of the Reverend Rowland Broomhead, one of the key figures in the Catholic revival in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

The book is the result of many years of work by Mr Peter Lupton, of Norden near Rochdale, an old boy of St Bede’s College, Manchester, and is a ‘must-buy’ for anybody interested in the restoration of the English Catholic church.

The book has been published by Gracewing and is available from their website and from all good online booksellers at the price of £20.

 

CONFERENCE 3rd OCTOBER 2015

We are pleased to announce that our Annual Day Conference and AGM will be held at the Carrs Lane Conference Centre, Carrs Lane, Birmingham, B4 7SX on Saturday October 3rd 2015. This is a new venue for us and we hope it will be a convenient location for all as it is close to bus, rail services, and car parks. We look forward to welcoming friends old and new.

The two main speakers this year are:

Ruth Barbour of Warwick University on ‘The Middling Sort of Catholic in eighteenth century Warwickshire’.
Tony Hadland of the Oxfordshire Local History Society on ‘Recusants of Oxfordshire and Berkshire’
A Family History Help Desk will be available at lunch-time and late afternoon. Please use this to ask any questions of our researchers to help your investigations and bring along any documents and materials that you would like to discuss.

The cost is £15.00, it is subsidised by the CFHS and includes a sandwich lunch, and tea/coffee and cold drinks.

Tickets are available by post from:

Mrs J M Smith
10 Irving Close
Woodsmoor
Stockport
SK2 7DX
Cheques payable to Catholic FHS please. You may also pay on the door but please let us know in advance if you are intending to do this.

New Book – The History of the Catholic Faith in Lytham

This book describes how the worshipping community developed around the small Benedictine cell established in the grounds of Lytham Hall, was pastored in Penal times and beyond by Jesuits on the English Mission and by priests of the Northern Vicariate, until the 1829 Catholic Emancipation Act created the climate which allowed Fr Walmsley to set up the present church on Clifton Street. The ensuing 175 years have seen 8 parish priests, a large number of curates and assistant priests, 3 permanent deacons and two congregations of religious sisters working to support the Catholics of Lytham. However, this book is more than the story of a building or a history of priests: it is the story of how we and our ancestors have lived our Catholic Faith in response to the varied challenges of these times, with lay people playing an ever greater role.

The book can be purchased from the website of St Peter’s RC Church, Lytham.

Annual Conference Reminder

The Catholic Family History Society Annual Conference & AGM

Saturday 3rd October 2015, 10am

Carrs Lane Conference Centre, Carrs Lane, Birmingham

Ruth Barbour of Warwick University will be giving the morning talk

The middling sort of Catholic in eighteenth-century Warwickshire

Tony Hadland of Oxfordshire Local History Society will be giving the afternoon talk on

Recusants of Oxfordshire and Berkshire

Please contact Jean Smith to book your place.

Catholic Sites on Heritage Open Days 2015

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Heritage Open Days

Heritage Open Days 2015 run from the 10^th to the 15^th September and the following Catholic sites are opening their doors during at least one of those days.

Please see the Heritage Open Days website for more information on a particular venue.

North East England

County Durham

• St Cuthbert’s RC Church, Old Elvet – 1827 church by Ignatius Bonomi.
• Ushaw College – Former Catholic seminary

Northumberland

• Biddlestone Hall RC Chapel – Private family oratory.

Yorkshire

• St Charles Borromeo RC Church, Hull – 1829 Rococo style church.
• St Hilda’s RC Church, Whitby – 1867 church by Hadfield
• St Cuthbert’s Church, Bradford – Grade II listed church with artwork by Eric Gill

North West England

Cheshire

• St Werburgh RC Church, Chester – 1875 church by Edmund Kirby.
• St Alban RC Church, Macclesfield – One of AWN Pugin’s best preserved churches.

Lancashire

• St Ann’s RC Church, Ashton under Lyne – Historic church by EW Pugin.
• St Christopher’s RC Church, Hurst Cross – Post-war split level church
• St Chad’s RC Church, Cheetham Hill – The Manchester Oratory – 1847 gothic church presently under restoration.
• Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, Blackpool – Post-war chapel and shrine.
• Our Lady’s RC Church, Brownedge – Benedictine priory church.
• St Clare’s RC Church, Liverpool
• St Francis Xavier RC Church, Liverpool – Grade II* Listed Jesuit church dating from 1848
• Church of the Sacred Heart, Darwen
• St Joseph’s RC Church, Darwen

South East England

Berkshire

• Inglewood House, Kintbury, Hungerford – Former De La Salle College
• St James RC Church, Reading – Pugin’s first Catholic Church, dating from 1837

Cambridgeshire

• Our Lady of Good Counsel & St Peter RC Church, March – Post war catholic parish church.
• Sacred Heart RC Church, St Ives – A church moved ‘brick by brick’ from Cambridge in 1902.

Essex

• St James the Less RC Church, Colchester – 1837 church by J.J. Scholes

Hertfordshire

• Our Lady & St Andrew RC Church, Hitchin
• RC Church of the Holy Rood, Watford – Grade 1 listed church

Norfolk

• Our Lady RC Church, King’s Lynn – 1896 church

Surrey

• St Mary the Virgin, Guildford – 1847 church
• St Raphael’s RC Church, Kingston upon Thames – 1847 Grade II* Listed church

South West England

Devon

• Our Lady of the Assumption RC Church, Tavistock – Grade II* Listed former Anglican church.

Dorset

• Lulworth Castle RC Chapel – 18^th century private oratory.

Somerset

• Eyre Chapel – Private oratory by Hansom

East Midlands

Nottinghamshire

• St Joseph’s RC Church – Post-war church.

West Midlands

Gloucestershire

• St Peter’s RC Church, Gloucester – 1858 gothic church by Blount.

Oxfordshire

• St Edmund & Frideswide RC Church & Friary – Greyfriars Friary

Staffordshire

• St Giles RC Church, Cheadle, Staffs – One of AWN Pugin’s finest churches
• Holy Trinity, Newcastle under Lyme – 1834 church in Medieval gothic style

Warwickshire

• Cloughton Court, Alcester – Tudor stately home. Home to the recusant Catholic Throckmorton family
• Leamington Spa Mission – 1828 former Catholic church
• Leamington Spa Polish RC Church – 1830 former town hall.
• Princethorpe College, Rugby – Former Benedictine Priory from 1833.
• St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham – AWN Pugin’s Cathedral.
• Birmingham Oratory – Grade II listed Italian Baroque complex and church

St Chad’s, Cheetham Hill CD

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baptism, Manchester, MLFHS, registers, Salford Diocese

The Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society are delighted to announce the completion of the CD of baptisms for St Chad’s RC Church, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, covering the period 1772-1893.

St Chad’s is the Catholic mother church of Manchester with its origins in the mid 18th century, and spawned the daughter parishes of St Mary’s, Mulberry Street (The Hidden Gem), and St Augustine’s before relocating to its present site on Cheetham Hill.

The new CD contains transcripts, indexes and original scans of the first twelve volumes of baptism registers and will be an invaluable resource for anybody researching their early Catholic ancestors in Manchester.

The CD can be purchased from the MLFHS Bookshop.