Extraordinary General Meeting

Seventeen members attended the Extraordinary General Meeting of the CFHS on Zoom this afternoon. The council formally announced the intention to wind-up the society, this will take place following a vote at the AGM which will be held 16th September 2023, concluding 40 years of work – there were no objections raised at the EGM.

Any member wishing to express views on this matter should email cfhsrecords@gmail.com.

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Upcoming Zoom Talk

Saturday 27 March 2021 at 2pm GMT

A talk on Secular and Church of England Records where Catholic ancestors can be traced,generally for going against the Establishment. Les Mitchinson will refer to the Recusant Rolls, Chancery Records, Ecclesiastical Court Record, Churchwardens’ Presentments, Assize and Quarter Sessions and Anglican records during the penal times when the practice of Roman Catholicism was illegal. Early Catholic records are scarce because to make and keep them could put at risk the lives of priests and those to whom they ministered if such documents were found by the authorities.

Les Mitchinson, DipGen, is Director of Education at the History Institute of Heraldry and Genealogical Studies, amongst his other responsibilities and interests. He is a graduate of this Institute. His earlier career was in the Royal Navy.

If you would be interested in joining us online for this talk, then please contact us through cfhsrecords@gmail.com. You will in due course be sent a link for Zoom. If you do not have Zoom it is easy and free to download it to your device. Simply search for Zoom on your search engine and follow the instructions. We hope you will want to join us for what promises to be an enlightening talk.

CIRCA 1754: Woodcut from the first edition of John Foxe The Book of Martyrs, London 1563, depicting iconoclasm, centre top. In the top part of the image papists are packing away their paltry, while the church is purged of idols. At bottom left clerics receive the Bible from Queen Elizabeth I. Bottom right shows the interior of a Protestant church with the congregation listening to a sermon, a somple Communion table rther than an altar, and a Baptism taking place. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Who’s Who of Your Ancestral Saints

The book entitled, A WHO’S WHO OF YOUR ANCESTRAL SAINTS, by Alan J. Koman, was published several years ago. The book is now printed in the UK, as well as in the U.S. The Catholic Family has reviewed it for the December 2020 issue of Catholic Ancestor. Koman takes 24 great historic people, European Christians, from 256Ad to 1322 AD and then details the 275 saints in their ancestry. Their profiles make interesting reading, giving insights into the lives of people deemed worthy to be regarded as saints at that time. The book gives plenty of material and references to sources to encourage and direct research by family historians, genealogists, secular or church historians.

Here is a link to the book’s description:
https://genealogical.com/store/a-whos-who-of-your-ancestral-saints/

CONFERENCE 2020 – Ushaw College

We are delighted to announce our 2020 Conference at historic Ushaw College, we hope to see you there.

CFHS NW Region Conference

Catholic Family History Society

North West Region Conference

 

Saturday 28^th October 2017, 11am

 

Fulwood Methodist Church

Watling Street Road

Preston

PR2 8EA

 

 

On Saturday 28^th October, the North West region of the Catholic Family History Society will be hosting a mini conference at Fulwood Methodist Church.

 

The speakers on the day will be

 

Peter Park MA FSG, on the topic of ‘Between the lines: what the records don’t tell us’

 

And

Lawrence Gregory MA, on the history and development of Catholic school archives, and their uses for genealogists.

 

Registration on the day will commence at 11am, with lunch at 12.30.

The AGM will be held at 1.45pm

Please contact Diana Henaghan to book a place

0161 483 7372 dmhenaghan@gmail.com

Catholic History Walks in London

Organised by Catholic History Walks, two Springtime riverside walks along the Thames will be organised in March, starting from the Church of the Most Precious Blood at London Bridge, which is in the care of the Ordinariate. The Walks are on Sunday afternoons, and all are welcome. There is no need to book – just […]

via Catholic History Walks, London, 2017 — English Catholic History Association

A Catholic Family History Society Seminar – Update

Preliminary programme

A Catholic Family History Society Seminar, followed by the AGM.

Saturday 7 October 2017 10.00- 16.00

at the Conference Rooms, 24 Tufton Street London, SW1P 3RB

Rory Higgins FSC from Australia will deliver a paper to introduce and explain the background to his latest database:
The Margaret Higgins Index and Details of 250, 000 English Catholics and their Friends 1680-1840.

William. D. Shannon will also be speaking.

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

It has taken him many years to compile and will be a major new resource for all historians interested in English Catholic history.

More details will follow.
To express an interest in attending, contact catholicrecords@gmail.com

Heritage Open Days 2016

 

Heritage Open Days 2016 will be taking place between September 8-11. Catholic sites open to the public include:

 

South West

Lulworth Castle & Park, Wareham, Dorset

St Edmund’s Church, Calne, Wiltshire

St Peter’s Church, Devizes, Wiltshire

St Peter’s Church, Gloucester

Meet the Marian Franciscan’s of St Mary’s, Gosport, Hampshire

Eyre Chapel, Bath, Somerset

 

South East

Notre Dame High School, Norwich, Norfolk

St Edmund’s Church, Bury St Edmund’s, Suffolk

St James Church, Reading, Berkshire

St Columba’s Church, Chesham, Buckinghamshire

St James the Less & St Helen’s Church, Colchester

St Joseph & the English Martyrs Church, Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire

St Joseph’s Church, Dorking, Surrey

St Raphael’s Church, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey

 

East Midlands

St Mary on the Sea Church, Grimsby, Lincolnshire

 

West Midlands

Coughton Court, Alcester, Warwickshire

Polish Catholic Mission, Leamington Spa. Warwickshire

St Peter’s Church, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

Princethorpe Benedictine College, Rugby, Warwickshire

St Anne’s Church, Wappenbury, Warwickshire

St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham

Birmingham Oratory

Ss Peter & Paul Church, Wolverhampton

Holy Trinity Church, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire

St Joseph’s Church, Burslem, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire

Sacred Heart Church, Tunstall, Staffordshire

 

North West

St Werburg’s Church, Chester, Cheshire

St Ann’s Church, Ashton under Lyne

St Chad’s Church, The Manchester Oratory, Cheetham Hill, Manchester

St Wulstan’s Church & School, Fleetwood, Lancashire

St Clare’s Church, Sefton Park, Liverpool

Ss Peter & Paul Church, New Brighton, Merseyside

Holy Apostles & Martyrs Church, Wallasey, Merseyside

 

North East

St Cuthbert’s Church, Old Elvet, Co Durham

Ushaw College, Co Durham

St Hilda’s Church, Whitby, North Yorkshire

St Ninian’s Church, Baxtergate, Whitby, North Yorkshire

Biddlestone RC Chapel, Netherton, Northumberland

St Cuthbert’s Church, Bradford, Yorkshire

Middleton Calvary, Illey, West Yorkshire

St Hilda’s Church, Leeds

St Saviours Church, Leeds

St Joseph’s Church, Pontefract

St Columba’s Church, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear

 

 

 

For more information about any of these events check the website

Visit to Caversham, Thursday 22nd September 2016 — English Catholic History Association

10.30 Arrival and tea, coffee and biscuits or homemade cake 11.00 Talk Aspects of Pilgrimage by Lindsay Mullaney, followed by questions 12.15 Mass 13.00 Lunch (bring your own sandwiches; tea and coffee provided). There will be an opportunity to look round the Church and the Shrine 14.00 Talk Medieval Pilgrimage to Reading by John Mullaney, […]

via Visit to Caversham, Thursday 22nd September 2016 — English Catholic History Association

St Nicholas Owen: Priest-hole Maker by Tony Reynolds — English Catholic History Association

St Nicholas Owen was arguably one of the most fearless and courageous of the Catholic martyrs of the Reformation. He learnt joinery as a trade and put his skills to use in fashioning the most ingenious priest-holes in England during penal times. Finally he was caught and tortured, giving nothing away to his tormentors. He […]

via St Nicholas Owen: Priest-hole Maker by Tony Reynolds — English Catholic History Association