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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)

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

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

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

P258 · Person · 1926-2002

1926, November: born
1953: ordained
1965-1968: PP at St Mary's, King's Lynn
1968-1977: PP at All Souls, Peterborough
1978-1982: PP at St Edmund's, Bury St Edmunds
2001: retired from Dereham
2002: Died

Vermuelen, C Rev CRP
P670 · Person · 1926

1924/26 - writing to Bishop Cary-Elwes

Tyson, M F Mr
P386 · Person · 1963

1963: architect writes to him re building of new church in Leiston

P303 · Person · 1925-2001

1925: Year 4 at seminary
c1945: PP at Huntingdon
1982: retired from Lowesoft
2001: died

P671 · Person · 1882 -1929

1926: writing to Bishop Carey-Elwes
Born in 1882, Stapleton-Bretherton at Fareham, Hampshire; the ninth child of Frederick Annesley and Hon. Isabella Stapleton-Bretherton.
July 1912, she married Lt. Cdr. Herbert Throckmorton at Brompton Oratory, London. They had five children

Thomson, David C Rev (-1998)
P361 · Person · 1976-1998

-1976: at Huntingdon
1976-1984: PP at Aldeburgh
1985: retired
1998: died

CB197 · Corporate body · 1977-

In 1977, the Guild of Our Lady of Ipswich (later renamed Meryemana) was founded with two aims – to pray for Christian Unity and to plan and achieve the re-establishment of the shrine of Our Lady of Grace at Ipswich.

On 10th September 2002, the Statue of Our Lady of Grace was blessed and installed by the Bishop of Richborough in the church of St Mary at the Elms, Ipswich. The statue, a replica of the statue at Nettuno, was carved by local artist Robert Mellamphy. The ceremony took place in the presence of the Bishop of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich, the Roman Catholic Dean of Ipswich (Monsignor Peter Leeming), Father Andrew Philips of the Orthodox Church and the Reverend Elizabeth Bellamy of the Methodist Church.

Tenorio, Michael Rev (1966-)
P015 · Person · 1966

"Born on January 21, 1966 on Guam, Fr. Mike grew up in Chalan Pago, the son of Margarito and Lillian Cruz Tenorio. He joined the Capuchin Friars in 1990 and was ordained on April 10, 1999. He assisted in Talofofo parish and then was assigned pastor of Sinajana in 2000. In 2003 he went to Agana Heights as pastor and then became a chaplain in the US Air Force in 2005 where he is currently serving"

P066 · Person · 1939-2020

1939: born
1996: Deacon
2001: Ordained
2019: retired

Obituary: RCDEA Yearbook 2021 Pg 74-75
2020: died

Sutch, Antony Rev OSB
P685 · Person · 2002-2011

?-2002: Headmaster, Downside
2003-2010: PP at St Benet's, Beccles
2010: returned to Downside