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P740 · Person · 1927-2012

Known as "Fr Peter" as his parishioners could not pronounce his Dutch name.

1927: 15 November, born, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
1969: ordained
1971/72: Our Lady Help of Christians, Luton
1972/74: St Gregory the Great, Northampton
1974-1978: Assistant priest at Leighton Buzzard
-1982: PP at Whittlesey
1982-: PP at Cambridge
1991: 30 September, appt. KON (Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau) (Dutch: "Ridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau")
1987-2001: PP at Woodbridge
2012: died (buried at sea)

P729 · Person · 1851-1900

1851: born
1883?: ordained
1885-1887: PP in Bedford
1887-[?] PP at King’s Lynn
1900: died

"George Wrigglesworth was born in Hull on St George's Day 1851, the son of John and Jane Wrigglesworth, both of whom had been received into the Church shortly before his birth. Thought to be in some danger, George was baptised on the day of his birth in the Church of St Charles, Hull. After his primary education, he was apprenticed to a Catholic chemist at Barton on Humber, where for many years he served in the sanctuary of the little chapel there. At the age of sixteen he wrote a pamphlet entitled "Proofs of the Real Presence drawn from the Protestant Bible" for the instruction of his non-Catholic friends. After completing his apprenticeship and passing the examinations of the Pharmaceutical Society he started to study for the medical profession. At the age of 23, however, he decided to abandon his medical studies and to study for the priesthood. In 1874 he went to St Edmund's College, Douay and then, in 1877, to the English College in Rome. Ordained priest at the Basilica of St John Lateran by Cardinal Monaco on 19 May 1883 he returned to England. His first appointment was the Church of the Holy Apostles in Norwich as assistant to a Father Fitzgerald. From, there he went to his first independent Mission at Wolverton, Bucks in 1884. He was moved again in 1885 to Bedford and, finally, in November 1887 he was appointed to King's Lynn in succession to Father Macdonald." text from PA28-07-04-18.

Wiseman, Teresa Mrs
P698 · Person · 2021

2021: deposited 2 boxes CWL East Anglian Branch documentation

Wiseman, Peter Mr
P236 · Person · 1997-present (2019)

1997: 2 explanatory booklets relating to Wymondham RC Church

Wilson, Alfred Rev (-1936)
P232 · Person · 1908-1936

1908/9: PP at St Ives
1910-?: PP at Huntingdon
1936 Jan 15: died

P657 · Person · 1868-1948

Father Benedict (born William Edward Williamson) in Hackney on June 6th 1868. He studied law and then trained as an architect in the office of Newman & Jacques in Stratford. He was received into the Catholic Church in 1896 at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, Mayfair where he took the name Benedict Williamson. For ten years he practised as an architect, working on Farnborough Abbey and St Ignatius Church at Tottenham.
In 1906 he entered Beda College in Rome where he studied for the priesthood, being ordained in 1909. He tried and failed to establish a male branch of the Brigettine Order.
In the First World War he became an RC chaplain on the Western Front with 47th Division from May 1917 and arrived in France in time for the Battle of Messines, posted to a Casualty Clearing Station. He was known, in the 47th Division, by the nickname of “Happy Days” on account of his unquenchable optimism. He was transferred to the 49th Division , 1/5th Duke of Wellington's Regiment, with which he served until after the Armistice. He returned to Southwark diocese, still designing churches. He moved to Rome and continued his association with the Brigettines; wrote a number of books with a religious and spiritual theme. He was an early admirer of Mussolini, remaining in Rome during the war and was involved in Monsignor O'Flaherty's Vatican based help line for allied PoWs and the hiding of the Jews.
He died in Rome in 1948.

William Comer Reade
CB100 · Corporate body · 1923-1955

1924: Builder associated with sale of land in Aldeburgh
1954: Associated with proposals for repair/removal of Aldeburgh RC church tower

Wiffen, Sheila M Miss
P395 · Person · 1987-1988

1987-1988: Secretary of the Walsingham Association, Norwich Branch

Webb, Geoffrey Fuller
P523 · Person · 1879-1954

1948: correspondence re Slipper Chapel
Stained glass artist and brother to Christopher Webb. Geoffrey Fuller Webb trained at Westminster School of Art before working for C.E. Kempe and in partnership with Herbert Bryans for a short time. In 1914 he established his own studio in East Grinstead, Sussex. He often incorporated a spider–web “signature” with initials and the date.

P743 · Person · 1948-2016

1948: born, Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire
1983: Ordained; Canons Regular of the Lateran
1990-1995: Assistant priest at King's Lynn
1997: incardinated into Diocese of East Anglia
1995-2000: PP at St Felix ,Haverhill
2000-2008: PP at St Joseph' Sheringham
2008-2016: PP at St Anthony of Padua, Fakenham
20016: retired
2016: died

Wearing & Hastings
CB088 · Corporate body · 1910-2006

Established in 1910 by Stanley J. Wearing (1881-1960), his first commission being the YMCA in Thetford. His other buildings included St Mary's Baptist Church, the Howlett and White Shoe factory (both in Norwich) and many council houses, the earliest being in 1912 at Thetford. During the Second World War, he was appointed by the National Buildings Record to sketch old buildings in Norwich and Norfolk. He was author of 'Georgian Norwich: Its Builders' and three volumes of 'Beautiful Norfolk Buildings'.
In 1953 Barry Hastings (d 1999), who had worked with Wearing before the war, was taken into partnership. He was joined by Anthony Rossi from 1968 to 1972 and Michael Brooks (d 1983), who became a partner in 1975. In 1984 Terry Norton became a partner, he retired in 2006 and the practice was taken over by Reynolds Jury Architecture as a going concern.
The practice's clients include area health authorities and local authorities in Norfolk; charities including the Great Hospital, Norwich, the Great Yarmouth Municipal Charities and the Norwich Consolidated Charities; ecclesiastical work included work for the Baptist Union, the Roman Catholic dioceses of Northampton and East Anglia and the Anglican diocese of Norwich (including quinquennial inspections); and it also undertook work for housing associations, the Ministry of Defence and many private clients.
The practice initially operated from 3 Upper King Street, than 3 Redwell Street, Norwich until 1957, moving to 5 Cathedral Street, Norwich, until 1965, when it moved to 14 Princes Street: it remained there until 2006.

P675 · Person · 1918-1997

1918: born
1936: novice at Downside Abbey
1937: clothed
1943: ordained
1943: Christ's College, Cambridge, to read History - gaining a double First
1946: Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
1948-1962: Housemaster at Downside
1962-1975: Headmaster of Downside
1975-1989: Beccles, parish priest
1975: Mayor of Beccles
1989: Downside as Abbot of Glastonbury
1997: died

Warwick, Bernard C
P439 · Person · 1982

1982: Manager of Walsingham Shrine from 1 December

P421 · Person · 1930-1995

1930, 19 October: born
1970: School Manager (St Martha's, King's Lynn)
-1973: Chair of King's Lynn Council of Churches
1978: Member of the Council of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
1995, 6 January: Death