1980: writing to Bishop Clark
1928: born
1955: ordained Anglian priest
1972: married
1972: Rector, Ss Peter & Paul, Keddington
1987: Received into Catholic church
1993: ordained Catholic priest
2017: died
William Hugh Owen Mason was born on July 27, 1928 at Kersey in Suffolk; his mother was the first district nurse in that area and his father was a tenant farmer.
He won a scholarship to King Henry VII Grammar school at Sudbury. He followed his brother into the Indian Army followed by National Service in the Middle East. At Oxford University Bill discovered his vocation and went from university to Cuddesdon Theological College.
Bill was ordained as an Anglican Deacon on Trinity Sunday 1954 at St George’s Cathedral Southwark and as an Anglican Priest on Trinity Sunday 1955. He served at All Saints, Dulwich, St Barnabas, Northolt Park and St Mary Magdalene, Munster Square as a curate before his own parish at St Clement, Notting Dale. After several years he was appointed Vicar at St Mary’s, Little Wratting before going to Walsingham as Assistant Administrator of the Anglican Shrine.
He married Christine in 1972 and went to the Parish of Ss Peter & Paul at Keddington as Rector for 15 years during which time his children, Lucy, Ben and Joe were born. In 1987, Bill took the decision to be received into Full Communion with the Catholic Church, giving up the Rectory at Keddington and his income as an Anglican clergyman. Owing to an administrative error, it took five years to gain permission from the Congregation for the Defence of the Faith in Rome for Bill, as a married man, to be ordained as a Catholic priest. In that time, Bill showed a remarkable faithfulness to his priestly vocation, and trust in God's providence and maintained the priestly discipline of the Divine Office whilst he worked as an assistant to a Funeral Director, and immersed himself in parish life in Bury St Edmunds, not the least enriching the choir with his fine singing voice.
[from East Anglia Yearbook 2018, page 56]
1992: providing ToRs as a resident Deacon at Dersingham
1987: writing to Walsingham re Youth Project
20 June 1919, born at Rosyth, Fife. He studied at Blairs College, Aberdeen, then Scots College, Rome, in 1939 awarded a Bachelor of Philosophy. Ordained in December 1943. 1 February 1944, a curate to St John’s Cathedral, Norwich, before going to High Wycombe. 1951 Parish priest at Sacred Heart, Southwold for seven years and built a new church at Halesworth. 1958, priest-in-charge at St Peter’s RC Church, Gorleston - parish hall built and in 1964 the church was consecrated on the 25th anniversary of its opening. 1967, Dean of Ipswich and was responsible for opening St Mark’s Primary School and completing St Alban’s Secondary School. 1976, Canon McBride became administrator when St John’s was made a cathedral and became Vicar General. October 1980 he became Parish priest in Dereham for 2 years before going to St Mary Magdalane Parish in Ipswich. Before retirement he spent 12 years at St Joseph’s, Sheringham.
24 April 2011: died
1956: ordained
1959-1975: Northampton Travelling Mission
1975: Parish Priest in Diss
2003: retired from Diss
2015: died
1975: Ordained
1935: Writing to the Bishop re Fr Flanagan
1993-2007: PP St Felix, Felixstowe
2007: died
1912: ordained
1921: Costessey, Norfolk
1953: letters re March Church
1941-1950: PP at St Mary's, Thetford
1950: died
1990: Writing to bishop about her brother
pre 1990: Welsh Office, Aberystwyth
1990-2012: National Secretary of the Walsingham Association
1983: Ordained
1978-1984: Member of Council for the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
1949: Invoiced for Magazine on 2 October 1949
1946-1951: PP at Southwold
1965: mentioned in letters re Hemsby & Caister
[?]-1983: PP at Hunstanton
1983: retired
1995: died
1937: November 1939 taking over as parish priest at Aldeburgh
1955, Apr 16: died
1913-1924: priest at Lynford
1924: died
2000: 2 sets of photographs of events at Walsingham Shrine
1991: letter re Youth Officer