Daylesford – The Grisewood Rector and his Convert Cousin
Daylesford – The Grisewood Rector and his Convert Cousin One dreary wet afternoon, a couple of years ago, I revisited Daylesford Church, one of Pearson’s early works, and was disappointed … Continue reading
Convert Clergy associated with Clifton Diocese
Convert Clergy associated with Clifton Diocese This working list considers some of the convert clergy from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who had links with the Roman Catholic Diocese … Continue reading
The Reverend James Russell Madan, M.A.
The Reverend James Russell Madan M.A. (1841-1905) by Joan C. Gorham Written in 1994 for Journal 24 of the Gloucestershire and North Avon Catholic History Society James Russell Madan, the … Continue reading
The Story of the Christ rescued from the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in 1793
The Story of the Christ rescued from the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in 1793 By Richard Barton (2019) The medieval Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, to the north of Paris, was … Continue reading
James Nobbs, a great Anabaptist
James Nobbs, Senior and Junior, and their ‘Anabaptist’ or Baptist Community at Horton, Gloucestershire The Baptist Church in Chipping Sodbury has a very long history and we know that it … Continue reading
Hibbs and Cox Families – My Quaker Ancestors
HIBBS AND COX FAMILIES – MY QUAKER ANCESTORS William Hibbs (-1686) and Joane of Aylburton, Lydney, Gloucestershire | Jonathan Hibbs (1657-1698), Clothier of Aylburton, and Margaret Cox (-1708), … Continue reading
A Catholic Treasury – Jottings from the Late Donald Halliday of North Hinksey
‘My Cousin, Donald Cecil Edmund Halliday (1913-2006)’ by Lorna Hawker Durrani Lorna Hawker Durrani has very kindly shared this article that she has written about her cousin, Donald Halliday. Thank … Continue reading
Sharpness Union Church (1880-1930)
Frank G. Marling: ‘The First Fifty Years of Union Church, Sharpness 1880-1930, published by T & W Goulding, Printers and Publishers, Nelson Street, Bristol, 1930. ‘Foreward – I have … Continue reading
Gloucestershire Bishops
Notes on Gloucestershire’s Bishops and Ecclesiastical Boundaries by Richard Barton and Brian Torode (2008) THE FIRST (BRITISH) HIERARCHY (Pre 597) Gloucester Mc Whirr in his book on Roman Gloucestershire has … Continue reading
Reverend Joseph Rickards, Vicar of Down Ampney and Rector of Nettleton
Reverend Joseph Rickards (1649-1714), Curate of Pertwood, Vicar of Down Ampney and Rector of Nettleton JOSEPH RICKARDS, Great IX Uncle of Richard Barton Joseph Rickards was born in about … Continue reading
