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Minh, John Rev
P040 · Person · 2019

2018: PP Sawston

P031 · Person · 10-5-1833 (born) - 7-7-1910 (deceased)

1856 Ordained at English College Lisbon - was Vice president for many years; 1859 - Pope Pius IX conferred Degree of Doctor of Divinity on him; 1876 - Priest at Chapel of St John the Baptist, Norwich; 1878 Encouraged 15th Duke of Norfolk to build a new church; 1881 Duke told Bishop Riddell & George Gilbert Scott Jnr. to plan church and demolish goal; 1883 - Dr Duckett appointed Rector; 1894 - moved to new Rectory, blessed nave and aisles of new Church of St John the Baptist; 1910 Died

P032 · Person · Born 9-1872; Died 7-5-1962

Born in Norwich and brought up as a Unitarian attending the Octagon Chapel. He studied art and literature in Leipzig. 1889 was received into the Catholic Church at the Holy Apostles Church in Norwich. 1896 a candidate for the priesthood and was ordained in St John the Baptist’s Church, Norwich in 1901. 1903 appointed priest in charge of Marlow, but when his health began to fail he was transferred to Cromer. Father Squirrel was a member of the Guild of the Pope’s Peace which sought via Pope Benedict XV’s call to bring the warring parties together in peace talks during the First World War. 1934 Rector of St. John the Baptist in Norwich. At this time he became involved in the restoration on the Slipper Chapel at Walsingham. On 14 August 1934 Canon Squirrel privately blessed and celebrated the first Mass in the Chapel since the Reformation, prior to Bishop Youens offering the first public Mass on the following day: the Feast of the Assumption.
1962, May 7: Died, Cambridge

Hulme, Gerard Rev (-1978)
P436 · Person · 1951-1978

Canon Gerard Hulme lies in the same plot with his twin brother Mgr. Anthony Hulme. They were born in Salford, Lancashire. Their brother, Len, also became a priest. All six Catholic priests lying in Bedford Cemetery were born in England. Canon Gerard Hulme tragically was killed in a car crash aged 69. He was a priest of Walsingham (1951-1968). When Canon Hulme died he was priest of Our Lady’s church at Kempston.

Burditt, Noel Rev (-2000)
P132 · Person · 1944-1978

1944: Bishop's Secretary and writing from Bishops House, Northampton
1978: member of the Council of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
1990: retired from Winslow
2000: died

Smith, Wilfrid Rev
P417 · Person · 1978

1978: Member of Council of the Shrine of Our lady of Walsingham

Wainwright, W Rev
P473 · Person · 1953

1943-1955: PP at All Souls, Peterborough

Higham, Joe Rev
P541 · Person · 1962

1962: Moving to Blakeney

Haggerty, Kevin Rev
P601 · Person · 1995-2002(?)

Haggerty came to the priesthood late. A former army officer, he took a degree in politics and history at King's College London, then a masters in war studies, then became a housing officer on a North Peckham estate.

Stewart, Richard L Rev
P634 · Person · 1977

1977: correspondence about him [?]
1977: commenting on a paper by Bishop Mahon
1979: participant at the Anglican Consultative Council - ACC-4 as "The Very Revd Canon Richard Stewart (Secretariatus ad Christianorum Unitatem Fovendem, Rome" ,8th - 18th May 1979

P118 · Person · 1919-2011

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

Diamond, Frank Rev (-1992)
P310 · Person · 1962-1992

1962: Mentioned as taking over as Parish Priest at St Mary's Yarmouth
1990: retired from Great Billing
1992: died

P322 · Person · 1949-1995

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

P087 · Person · 1863-1943

1863: born
1889: ordained
1889-1895: Northampton
1894-1924: Parish Priest, St Edwards, Kettering
Northampton Diocese Treasurer
1943, Jan 18: died

P108 · Person · 1872-1948

1872: born
1898: ordained
1903-1919: PP at Hunstanton Mission
1919-1925[+?]: PP at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Wellingborough
1929-1943: PP at St Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds
1943: PP at Felixstowe
1943-1945: PP at St Felix, Felixstowe
1945: retired
1948: died

McShee, J E Rev (1912-)
P144 · Person · 1912-

1912: ordained
1921: Costessey, Norfolk
1953: letters re March Church