1961: born
1989: ordained
~1994: PP at St Michael the Archangel, Huntingdon
~1997-2019: Chaplain in RAF
~2014-2019: Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain (RAF)
2019-: PP at Priest Our Lady and St Charles Borromeo, Wisbech
1982-1985 - St Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds
1986-? - St George's, Norwich
1988-1989 - Our Lady and English Martyrs, Cambridge
1990-1993 - (Our Lady of Lourdes), Dogsthorpe, Peterborough
1895: born
1918: ordained
1922 - 1936: PP at March
1963: died
Wallace George Clare was born in Ipswich and brought up in Suffolk. Educated at Lowestoft College, St Wilfred’s College, and Paris. At seven, he decided to become a clergyman; by nine the curly headed schoolboy nicknamed “Bubbles” had begun his life-long interest in books and genealogy which led to his founding the Irish Genealogical Research Society in1936. At eleven, a visit to an RC church brought him to Roman Catholicism. Father Clare was sent to Paris for training and appointed a Curate at Northampton Cathedral until 1922 when he became the Parish Priest at March, Cambridgeshire.
There, he was a continual surprise to his Bishop. In 1923 Fr Clare wrote of the good work on the presbytery; “1st I heard about a Presbytery being started!” replied the Bishop. Fr Clare’s artistic and theatrical friendships enabled him to convince London artistes to perform concerts in rural March for church funds. The Bishop curtailed these since, whilst well received, they turned very little profit. In 1924 he asks the Bishop if he may erect shrine in Church in honour of St Wendreda. His supporting historical research includes a photograph of an Indulgence granted to parish church by Cardinal Wolsey in 1526; could the Bishop renew it in favour of March church of Our Lady & St Peter?
Soon after, Fr Clare’s presbytery became a small school for “difficult boys”. However, someone sent the Bishop the school’s prospectus, which he queried. Fr Clare replied that it was not truly a prospectus since it was not a school, in the strictest sense; taking only abnormal boys for supervision and treatment. The prospectus was a “camouflage to save the feelings of parents of mental boys whose friends might find out that they are in March”. Pupils were medically examined and once a cure is effected the boys can be taught by qualified teacher. Fr Clare apologised for his thoughtlessness and was “always anxious to make right any wrong”. A contemporary of [Dame] Nellie Melba wrote to say his son was much improved, indeed unrecognisable, following Fr Clare’s schooling.
Fr Clare maintained his interest in theological and ecclesiastical affairs and did much research and writing; he amassed a large collection of books on every aspect of religion and the Church. He published books and articles which included “The Historic Dress of the English Schoolboy”, “A Young Irishman’s Diary”, the diary of his grandfather, John Keegan of Moate, “A Simple Guide to Irish Genealogy”. His life work was the Convert Rolls (uncompleted) making biographical and genealogical notes to the lists of Converts to the Protestant Faith.
Fr Clare dreaded the March winters, which in 1962 exacerbated his bronchitis and he retired, going to the Franciscan Sisters at Maryland, Milford on Sea, and died in April 1963.
"The Wallace Clare Award is named in honour of Rev. Wallace Clare (1895-1963), a Catholic priest and keen academic who founded the IGRS [Irish Geneological Research Society] in 1936. This was as a response to the great conflagration of 1922, which consumed almost the entire contents of Ireland’s Public Record Office. Fr. Clare initiated the Society's core policy of maintaining a library which 87 years later holds an invaluable collection of transcripts and abstracts compiled from documents subsequently destroyed in the fire. He was the author of the first ever book on Irish ancestral research, A Simple Guide to Irish Genealogy, published in 1937. Unsurprisingly, Fr. Clare was the first individual to be elected a Fellow of the IGRS in 1937." From IRGS website "https://www.irishancestors.ie/20004-10 (accessed 20-5-2023)
The Right Reverend Alan Charles Clark was born of convert parents in Bickley, Kent on 9th August 1919. When young he contracted polio and was taken to Lourdes. He made a recovery and set his sights on the priesthood. He studied at the Venerable English College in Rome and was ordained to the Priesthood for the Archdiocese of Southwark on 11 February 1945 (The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes). He was involved in the Second Vatican Council as a peritus and was later to become the Vice-Rector of his old seminary in Rome. From there he would return to his Diocese of Southwark where he became Parish Priest of Our Lady Help of Christian, Blackheath, Kent before being selected as the new Auxiliary Bishop of Northampton with the Titular See of Elmham.
Bishop Clark was named the Co-chairman of ARCIC (Anglican/Roman Catholic International Commission). As the first bishop of the new diocese, he had to set up all the necessary instruments and commissions for the diocese. The diocesan offices and diocesan tribunal were at The White House in Poringland near Norwich. This estate had been given to the Diocese of Northampton by the Birkbeck Family. It was the residence of the retired Bishop of Northampton, The Rt Revd Leo Parker.
Bishop Clark continued in office until his seventy-fifth birthday made it mandatory for him to tender his resignation to the Holy See in 1994. This was accepted on 21st March, 1995 and at that point he became Bishop Emeritus. He retired to a house built in the grounds and died in the 16th July, 2002 at the age of eighty-two. He was buried near the Slipper Chapel in Walsingham, Norfolk.
1919: Born
1974: Proposal about wall at Halesworth
2003: Died
"... he was blown up in a tank during the war, I think in North Africa, and thereafter lived and worked in a wheelchair." "Russell went on to qualify and practise as an architect and, among his many assignments was the conversion of a number of Adnams pubs, including the Anchor at Walberswick" webpage Southwold Art Circle
1958: born Tredegar, Wales
1978-1984: Studied at the Royal English College, Valladolid, Spain, the Pontifical University of Comillas in Madrid and at the Pontifical University of Salamanca.
1984: ordained for the Archdiocese of Cardiff.
1984-1986: Assistant Priest in the Metropolitan Cathedral of St David, Cardiff
1986-1988: Assistant Priest in Bridgend
1989: Post-graduate study in Spain
1989-94: Vice Rector at the Royal English College
1994-2001: Parish Priest of Chepstow and Caldicot
2001- 2019: Dean of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Cardiff
2004: Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
2019-2022 Parish priest in the parishes of St Mary of the Angels, Canton and Holy Family, Fairwater.
2022: Ordained 5th Bishop of East Anglia
From Vatican announcement: "Msgr. Peter Gwilym Collins was born on 13 May 1958 in Tredegar, in the archdiocese of Cardiff. He was ordained a priest on 14 July 1984 for the same archdiocese. He attended the English College of Valladolid, Spain, and was awarded a licentiate in dogmatic theology from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid.
He has held the following offices: parish vicar of Saint David’s Cathedral in Cardiff (1984-1989); vice rector of the English College of Valladolid (1989-1994); parish priest of Chepstow, Caldicot and Magor (1995-2001); dean and administrator of Saint David’s Cathedral in Cardiff (2001-2019).
Since 2019 he has served as parish priest of Saint Mary of the Angels and Holy Family in Cardiff, diocesan representative for Safeguarding, president of the diocesan Commission for Education and chair of the Presbyteral Council. In addition, he is a member of the Cathedral Chapter of the archdiocese of Cardiff."
1912-1916: resident priest at Aldeburgh
1913: writing to Bishop[?] about congregation numbers
1945: Born
1981-86: Administrator for Anglican Shrine, Walsingham
1985-2001: Guardian
1993-9: Master of the Guardians
2020: Fr Christopher Colven, a former Anglican priest and sometime Master of the Society of the Holy Cross, is the Rector of St James, Spanish Place, London.
1927: writing to Bishop on the health of Fr C Banham
1899-1918 PP St Felix, Felixstowe
1913-1923: PP at St Benet's Beccles
Coulton (JJ) and Son (Richard C), was acquired by Kenneth F.M. Bush in 1938
1928: born. Italy
1954: Ordained
1955-1958: Northern Ireland
1958: came to England
~1983: (16 months) curate at St John the Baptist, Norwich
1984-2004: PP in Southwold at 56yrs
2004: Retired
2010: Boss acquired for SJB Narthex Bar
2020: Boss passed to RCDEA Archive
James Crimmen was born in Marylebone, London c. 1840. At least from 1897, he lived at 65 High Street (The Manor House) Southwold, with his Southwold-born wife, Sarah. He was a Wine and Spirit Dealer, and an employer. He extended his home to provide a Chapel. He named the Chapel St Peter’s Oratory and provided all the furniture, fittings, vestments, and sacred vessels. Fr Alexander Scott, from Lowestoft, celebrated the first Mass in the Oratory in June 1897. Mr Crimmen was anxious to establish a regular Mass, to which end he and his brother William promised £25 a year in support of a Priest.
1899: writing to request a permanent priest at Southwold
1922: died
1974: Writing to Bishop's Office
The firm claims to one of the oldest in the country. Its name is derived from the partnership of Frederick Cross and Willett Ram at the end of the 19th Century – but the records of the Mary Warner Charity (which continues to this day) show that its legal precursor was established in Halesworth before 1738. The firm is believed to have existed on the same site throughout although the handsome purpose-built building at 18 The Thoroughfare was constructed in 1810 by Peter Jermyn.
1928: born
1965: ordained
?-?: United States & West Indies
1974- ~1977: Assistant Priest, St Michael, Huntingdon [served at The Good Shepherd, Huntingdon]
1988-1989: PP at Sheringham
1991: incardinated into Diocese of East Anglia
1991-2003 [2006?]: PP at St Dominic's Downham Market
2003 [2006?]: retired from Downham Market to Ireland
2019: died
Born in Ballinadee, Bandon, in County Cork; ordained priest by the Bishop of Clogher in June 1965 for the Sacred Heart Community. Served in the parish of Rochester, New York; seven years in the Missions in the Bahamas, on Abaco Island. Returning to England he served as an Assistant in West Acton in Westminster; Assistant in the parish of St Michael Huntingdon. As Parish Priest he served at St Felix, Haverhill, St Jude’s Whittlesey, and St Joseph’s, Sheringham.
Obituary RCDEA Diocesan yearbook 2022, Pg76
1984-1998: Treasurer of the Walsingham Association, Norwich Branch
2019 July 19: ordained