History of Religious Women – Conference

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

A member of the Federation of Family History SocietiesSociety

Early Modern Orders & Disorders

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

 

Catholic Walks in London

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 .

 

Visit to Worcester

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

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

Staffordshire History Day

The Staffordshire Record Office will be hosting a History Day on the 7th May 2016, 10am-5pm.

Tickets – £19.

For more information or to book, email staffordshire.record.office@Staffordshire.gov.uk

Buckinghamshire Family History Society

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Buckinghamshire Family History Society Open Day
Saturday 23rd July 2016, 10am to 4pm
The Grange School, Wendover Way, Aylesbury, HP21 7NH.

Research facilities including our names database (over five million entries), Parish Register, People, and Places libraries. Parish Register transcripts and other research aids will be on sale. Expert advice; guest societies from around the country; local heritage groups; suppliers of data CDs, maps, software, archival materials and much more.

Admission is free, with free parking at the venue.

Further information, including a full list of organisations attending, can be found at http://www.bucksfhs.org.uk