Old English Catholic Missions - Tapa blanda

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: Thomas Baker Subjects: Catholics Registers of births, etc England Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: " 1832, Feb. 25 : The Rev. Wm. Chew, aged 61, nearly 26 years Pastor of the Hazlewood congregation." 1832 -- "Robert Elliot, aged 78, coachman of Dowager Lady Stourton." The baptismal register [No. 154] of "High Wrisall, Friarage Yarm, Yarm Chapel," in two books dates from 1795 and contains little of interest The first of these concludes with the year 18n and was kept by the Rev. Peter Potier, probably a French refugee priest, but whose name, however, cannot be accurately verified in the list given by Canon Plasse. The second register is " continued in a New Book from April, 18n, by the Rev. John Bradley," who seems to have been the priest in charge from that date until in 1 840 he forwarded both to the Commissioners : he adds, " N. B. I find no register of baptisms kept in the chapel previous to the year 1795." " 1800, 12 Mar., was baptised by me, P. Potier, Edward - a natural child, godfather, Richard Todd. godmother, Nelly Todd. N. B. The name of the father of this child was Shaw, the mother's name I never learned." Several entries of the families of Meynell and Swinburne occur in this register. JHarton, The register in three books, No. 157, of "Marton Chapel in Holderness," dates from 1774, the first entry being made on the 15 Aug. of that year by the Rev. Charles Howard, D. D., Miss. Ap., who appears to have been on this mission until July, 1815. " 177S June 29, Baptized, Edward, son of Thomas Jackson, labourer of Sproatley and Martha [blank] of the Church of England, but since reconciled to the Catholi...