Society Seminar on Records

2017 Seminar

2017 Seminar on Records with launch of names database

This Society is planning the launch of a major new electronic database with a paper delivered by Br. Rory G Higgins FSC of Australia at a seminar on Saturday 7 October 2017 in the Conference Rooms, 24 Tufton Street London SW1P 3RB 10am-4pm.

An Index to the Names and Details of over
250,000 Catholics and their Friends in England 1680 – 1840

Rory Higgins has spent many years compiling this work with support from the Catholic Family History Society, his Superiors and others. The database will be a hugely valuable resource for church, social, political, local and family historians, both in England and around the world. On it are men, women and children from all walks of life, including priests and foreigners living in England. Where available there are details of age, of occupation and of location. References guide the user to the many sources which he has trawled, both original and printed, in order to collect the information together into this database. His earlier successful database is the Australian Nuns Index. Individuals and representatives of organisations involved in records and archives, as well as historians of all interests, will find his latest database to be the research tool everyone has been waiting for.

We hope you will not miss this opportunity to be amongst the first to explore the potential of this new resource. To express your interest and reserve a place contact: cfhsrecords@gmail.com. Places are being snapped up!

The period 1680-1840 covers the centuries when Catholicism was effectively outlawed. Records of Catholics are scattered in civil record offices, in Catholic and in Anglican Church archives throughout the country. We are pleased to have William D. Shannon, PhD, to speak on his research in in this era under the title:

Using the Records of the Forfeited Estates Commission (1715-1724) at TNA
to reconstruct Catholic Lancashire before and after the First Jacobite Rebellion.

Dr Shannon has delved into the fate of the Catholics involved in the 1715 Battle of Preston, not just those executed, imprisoned or exiled, but also those less directly involved.

Philip Gale will arrange a presentation on the development of The National Archives finding aid Discovery, with particular reference to Catholic records.

Society Conference Programme

Catholic Family History Society

Conference with AGM 1st October 2016

The Priory Rooms Conference Centre

40 Bull Street

Birmingham B4 6AF

PROGRAMME

10.00 – 10.30 am Registration and coffee

11.00 am Maggie Loughran, professional genealogy speaker and writer

Wills before 1858, especially those of Roman Catholics.

Bring your own interests in wills for discussion.

12.30pm Buffet lunch

2pm AGM

2.30pm Dr Nick Baker, archivist at Princethorpe College, Warwickshire

Locating the archives of religious orders, followed by your

questions and contributions.

4.00pm Tea

Full access for people with restricted mobility and also parking
Family History Help Desk available: bring your research enquiries
Opportunity to meet other members and friends
Opportunity to talk to the speakers
Material for family or local history
Travel, local parking, hotel and local studies information on request
For details about the venue see theprioryrooms.co.uk
Tickets: £15, to include lunch and all refreshments, from jeansmith1934@talktalk.net

Website: http://www.catholicfhs.co.uk

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Conference on Catholic East Anglia

A one-day conference on the history of Catholicism in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough from the Reformation to the present

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
11 June 2016
The Narthex, Cathedral of St John the Baptist

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10.30 – 11.00     Tea and coffee

11.00 – 11.10      Introduction and welcome

 11.10 – 11.30     Resistance and devotion in Tudor Suffolk: Roger Martin’s prayer book. Dr Francis Young

11.30 – 11.50    A riding mission on the Norfolk-Suffolk border in the eighteenth century. Joy Rowe

11.50 – 12.10    Catholicism in Victorian East Anglia. Prof. John Charmley

12.10 – 12.30    Questions and discussion

12.30 – 13.45      LUNCH

13.45 – 14.05     Nineteenth-century religious life in Norwich: Notre Dame Convent, School and Chapel. Jonathan Hooton

14.05 – 14.15    Questions and discussion

14.15 – 14.40     Book launch for Catholic East Anglia: A History of the Catholic Faith in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

14.40 – 15.15  Round table discussion: the future of East Anglian Catholic history

For more information and to book visit the website Here

Catholic East Anglia is generously supported by the Diocese of East Anglia, the Cathedral of St John the Baptist and the Catholic Record Society

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Society Conference Programme

Catholic Family History Society

Conference with AGM 1^st October 2016

The Priory Rooms Conference Centre

40 Bull Street

Birmingham B4 6AF

PROGRAMME

10.00 – 10.30 am             Registration and coffee

11.00 am                 Maggie Loughran, professional genealogy speaker and writer

Wills before 1858, especially those of Roman Catholics.

Bring your own interests in wills for discussion.

12.30pm                  Buffet lunch

2pm                           AGM

2.30pm                    Dr Nick Baker, archivist at Princethorpe College, Warwickshire

Locating the archives of religious orders, followed by your

questions and contributions.

4.00pm                    Tea

• Full access for people with restricted mobility and also parking
• Family History Help Desk available: bring your research enquiries
• Opportunity to meet other members and friends
• Opportunity to talk to the speakers
• Material for family or local history
• Travel, local parking, hotel and local studies information on request
• For details about the venue see theprioryrooms.co.uk

Tickets: £15, to include lunch and all refreshments, from jeansmith1934@talktalk.net

 Website: www.catholicfhs.co.uk

A member of the Federation of Family History Societies

Researching Catholic Family History Conference

On the 12th March at 11am, Dr Brenda Hustler will be holding a day conference with presentations on researching catholic history. The day will be invaluable for anybody interested in finding out more about their Catholic ancestors.

The conference is being hosted by the Salford Diocesan Archives at St Augustine’s, Manchester.

See attached poster for full details.Family History Conference

 

 

Catholic Archives Society Annual Conference 2015

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Catholic Archives Annual Conference 2015, 18-20 May, Belsey Bridge Conference Centre, Ditchingham, Bungay.

Further information – Rebecca Volk, Tel. 07712 153498, email Rebecca_volk@yahoo.com

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CONFERENCE 3 October 2015

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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.

Conference and AGM 2015

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For 2015 we are using a new venue – The Carr Lane Conference Centre in Birmingham and the event will take place on Saturday 3 October. The speakers and subjects have not yet been decided, but further details will appear here in due course. Hopefully by having the conference in the middle of England will make it accessible to people who could not travel to Manchester or London.

The Federation of Family History Societies 40th Anniversary Sponsorship Grants Programme

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We are very pleased to announce that the FFHS has awarded us a grant as part of their 40th anniversary celebrations. We will be using the money towards funding our 2014 Day Conference and AGM.