31 Wednesday May 2017
Posted in Events, Family History
Hampshire Genealogical Society Family History Open Day and Fair
on Sunday 8 October 2017, 10 am to 4 pm
at Everest Community Academy, Oxford Way, BASINGSTOKE RG24 9FP
free entry – free parking – light refreshments – disabled access
three free talks – numerous family history stalls and exhibitors
(the theme of the event will be World War Two – Britain at Home)
31 Wednesday May 2017
29 Monday May 2017
24 Tuesday Jan 2017
24 Tuesday Jan 2017
Posted in Conference, Events, History, Meetings
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.
08 Thursday Sep 2016
Posted in Conference, Events
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
A member of the Federation of Family History SocietiesSociety
13 Monday Jun 2016
There is a call for papers to be presented at the 3rd biannual Early Modern British & Irish Catholicism Conference, a joint event by Notre Dame University, and Durham University.
The conference is being planned for the 28th to 30th June 2017 at the University of Notre Dame’s London Gateway and will consider the relationship between religious orders and the Catholic Church in Britain and Ireland.
The conference organisers are inviting proposals for 20 minute talks on any related theme.
For more information contact James Kelly on james.kelly3@durham.ac.uk
12 Sunday Jun 2016
On Wednesday this week Joanna Bogle is leading another of her renowned Catholic history walks around the City of London.
The walk begins at 6.30pm on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral and will cost £5, for more information see the website .
12 Sunday Jun 2016
The Midland Catholic History Society and the English Catholic History Society are organising a trip to Worcester to visit St George’s Church & the Worcester Cathedral Library and Archive.
St George’s Church was built by the Jesuits in 1829, and taken over by the Archdiocese of Birmingham in 1990.
The cost is £10 and can be booked with the attached form Mid Cath Hist Soc
08 Sunday May 2016
Posted in Conference, Events, History
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
#RCEastAngliaConf
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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