Baptisms at St Mary’s Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, 1768-1812
Thornbury Registers: Baptisms (1768-1812), transcribed by Richard Byrd Please Press this Link: Thornbury Parish Register Baptisms 1768-1812 Notes about the Parish Register: Pages 1-7 are … Continue reading
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
A Catholic Treasury – Jottings from the Late Donald Halliday of North Hinksey
THIS COLLECTION OF NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS IS ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY PLACE NAME Donald Cecil Edmund Halliday was born on 7th January 1913 at Eton. His father, Cecil Alfred Halliday … 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
History of Gloucester Catholic Deanery
HOMILY PREACHED AT THE CHURCH OF ST. AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY, MATSON, BY FR. RICHARD BARTON AT A DEANERY HOLY HOUR ON 26th MAY 2013 TO MARK ‘THE YEAR OF FAITH’ … Continue reading
