Register of Baptisms from 9 August 1802 (officiated by William le Goff) to 29 December 1837 (officiated by Rev Pierre Lewis Dacheux). Completed in manuscript. 2 baptisms performed in January 1816 by Peter James de la Biffachere, pastor.
Front cover annotation in manuscript: "Baptisms at Lynn from the year of our Lord 1802 [rest illegible]"
Pg2 annotation: "Wm Le Goff appointed to Lynn Jannuary [sic] 1802 by the Right Revd Dr Stapleton Vicar Apostolic of the Middland [sic] District"
The last 9 sides are unused. Pg1 to 15 plain paper (115x180mm) Pg16 to end (95x168mm) red ruled account pages.
On first page/cover: [ink]"1820 / Catholic / Marriage at Lynn Regis"; [pencil] "St. Mary's Lynn"
Pg1: First entry 20 December 1820, officiated by Rev Pierre Louis Dacheux
Pg9: Last entry 19[?] February 1839, officiated by Charles Bugham
Register of Baptisms from 25 March 1838 (officiated by Rev Pierre Lewis Dacheux) to 18 April 1849 (officiated by Rev George Rigby).
UnknownBook is an accounts book with each page ruled with red feint lines
First 6 pages: accounts 20 October 1841 to April 1846
Remainder: Register of Baptisms from 1 April 1849 (officiated by Rev George Rigby) to 18 April 1849 (officiated by Rev E Walshe).
Register of Confirmations:
25 April 1852; Bp Wareing; Fr George Rigby; 16 female and 9 male candidates
25 April 1855; Bp Wareing; Canon George Rigby ("Canon and Rector Missionarius of Lynn erected for the first time on 8th day of May 1855"); 10 female and 13 male candidates
30 September 1860 - 4 sides blank
30 September 1860 [new format]; Bp F K Amherst; 17 candidates; [page signed by] J McDonald M.A.
26 July 1863; Bp F K Amherst; 23 Candidates; [page signed by] William Poole Miss. Apos. [this page ruled lightly through and annotated "Copied"]
Rest of book blank
Register of Marriages from 21 June 1852 (officiated by George Rigby) to 18 October 1870 (officiated by Andrew Walshe). Completed in manuscript.
Pages 1-19 tabular format. Page 20 notes "new Rite begun.. 1856" from then fuller entry.
Book is 75% empty pages.
Furniture, etc. listed for:
No 1 - Kitchen
No 2 - Sitting Room
No 3 - Lobby & Staircase
No 4 - Landing
No 5 - Front bedroom
No 6 - Bedroom - left hand
No 7 - Front attick
No 8 - Back attick
No 9 - Bed linen
No 10 - 1 box of books stowed away for 20 years
side1: title: "expenses incurred on the Lynn Mission in erecting Presbytery etc. in North Everard Street and other expenses necessary to put house in Union St. in a saleable condition"
side2: Expenditure from 1847 to 1849
side 3: Income from 1848 to 1853 [includes £177/10/- for sale of house in Union St.]
side 4: Expenditure for 1850 to 1857
side 5: Income from 1953 to 1954
side 8: "Statement of Lynn Mission"
Baptismal register
UnknownConfirmation register
UnknownRegister of the deceased.
UnknownRecord of Marriages
Pg1, entry 1: 24 December 1863; Rev William Poole Mis. Apos.
Pg38, entry 152: 23 September 1939; Rev Edmund Stokes
inside back cover - typescript index
Latin Document in response to a series of questions arising from the Apostolic Letter of 11 April 1869.
First section is from Congregation Indulgentiarum [Congregation for Indulgences and Sacred Relics] - signed by Cardinal Bizzarri on 10 July 1869
Second section is from Poenitentiariae [Apostolic Penitentiary] - signed by Cardinal Panebianco on 1 June 1869
Text from cutting:
DEATH OF THE REV. A. F. WALSH (R. C.).- The Diamond Fields Advertiser, published at Kimberley, South Africa, of September 19th, contains the following obituary notice of the late Father Walsh, who was for some years Mission priest at Lynn, and, going out to the Cape in 1875, fulfilled his duty in various places there, and amongst others, with the British troops in the South African wars, in the zealous and self-denying manner described by the biographer:-
Weeping women and men bowed down with grief clustered round the doors of the Roman Catholic Church and priests' residences on Saturday evening. Good cause had they for sorrow. At five o'clock the spirit of a brave and good man had passed away from earth, leaving a void in all that is noble and pure in Kimberley, which it will be hard to fill up. Andrew Francis Walsh had not only gone through the form of setting apart his life for the service of others, but up to the last had performed the vows of that high servitude to the letter. Born in County Tipperary in 1839, he evinced at an early age strong aspirations after spiritual life, and his determination to enter the priesthood was but the outcome of an inward conviction that therein lay his path of duty. His collegiate studies began at Carlow, and subsequently he passed some time at Bruges, Belgium. Having completed his training for the sacred calling, he was stationed for a period in England, chiefly at Nottingham. He allied himself with one of the religious brotherhoods of his Church, and he was despatched to South Africa in March, 1875. Several Sisters, amongst whom was the Rev. Mother now in Kimberley, accompanied him to the Cape. Father Walsh was located in various parts of South Africa. He was the first Roman Catholic minister at Pretoria. Afterwards he opened up a mission at Lydenburg, which for a time proved a busy field for religious work, and only declined when the place fell away as a gold bearing region. He was the pioneer priest of Jagersfontein, where he laboured with great acceptance for three years. He was transferred to Kimberley about two years ago. This is a brief and imperfect sketch of the various spheres of ministerial service in which Father Walsh worked earnestly and lovingly. But it is in another field of duty that he earned name and fame. Wherever in South Africa British soldier or volunteer has been called upon during the last seven years to fight the battles of his Queen, there Father Walsh considered it was his place to be. In the Zulu war and the Transvaal war he attached himself to the British troops as chaplain, and invariably contrived to gain the love and respect of the soldiers no matter what creed they professed. He was fearless in administering rebuke, and unflinching in giving caution and advice; the tenderest of nurses, the most unselfish of comrades. Often and often has he been known to break through the lines and go foraging around in the enemy's country in quest of fruits and vegetables or other succulent herbs for the fever-stricken or wounded patients, with whom he felt all a brother's sympathy. Laden with these spoils of a dangerous expedition - conducted all alone - he would return to camp, doff his coat, chop up sufficient wood for a fire, and then cook the delicacies he had gathered with solicitous hand, serving them to the sick with a touching tenderness that proved in many a case more than half the cure. When reminded of the danger to which he had exposed himself he would simply say: "Others must not do it, but I must. I cannot see these poor men suffering without doing something for them." In the hour of battle he presented an example of calm cool courage almost heroic. Ever watchful that the wounded were not left to be trampled down or ruthlessly done to death, he has been known time after time to have rushed from the shelter of a laager towards some fallen soldier pierced by bullet or assegai, and borne him swiftly and safely away beyond the reach of further danger. He was one of the numerous subjects of Her Majesty who in many an engagement has won the right to the Victoria Cross, if ever true valour won it; but the innate modesty of this truly brave, and thoroughly unselfish man, made him shrink from anything like a trumpeting of his deeds. "My duty" was his motto, and never did priest militant or loving pastor do that duty more loyally. In the Bechuanaland expedition, to which he was attached as chaplain, he was simply idolised by the soldiers. No duty was too arduous, no service too menial for him, when called upon amid the exigencies of camp life. In Kimberley the record of his pure and useful career will be long so remembered. His faith went beyond the boundaries of his own Church, his charity recognised no creed, the poor and sick knew him only as a ministrant of good. Stricken down last Sunday - just after he had been assisting in public worship - with inflammation of the lungs, he gradually sank, notwithstanding the constant attentions of Dr. Jameson, combined latterly with those of Dr. Matthews, until, as we have said, he breathed his last about five o'clock on Saturday evening. Let those who mourn his departure remember, with Petrarch, that
"Death betimes is comfort, not dismay;
And who can rightly die needs no delay."
Unused book. Front cover embossed with "Sunday School Attendance / Register"
Pages to record names, residence, age, attendance (am/pm), final page quarterly summary figures for 188-
Metal box with carrying handles, hinged lid; lock (no key present)
Gold lettering: “Re Cambridge Mission 1880”
[label attached to side: "Deeds etc / Provenance Cambridge"]
Conveyance of land (Plot 2, East Street, St Ives, being one of 33 other plots sold at auction in the Corn Exchange in St Ives on 6th April 1886. Sold for £62 by John Piggott (6 Cheapside London. Outfitter) to John King (St Ives. Builder). The plot is coloured pink in the plan bounded by East St to the South and Crown Walk to the East. The 33 plots were originally bought by John Piggott from Robert William King on 1 June 1885 being a garden and pasture.
Signed in presence of Mr Pope, Solicitor of Bucklesbury, London.
Unused book. Front cover embossed with "Register / of Sacraments / No. 1"
Pages to record names, date of birth, date of receipt of sacrament. Preprinted for 189-.
- Shrine of Our Lady Walsingham - Document holdings - 1890 - 1968
- Shrine of Our Lady Walsingham - Photographs - 1934 - 1972
Inside front cover: strips of paper - typed index of names in alphabetic order.
Baptism #1 12 March 1893
Baptism #503 25 September 1939
The final three pages used were originally blank (no pre-printed form entries).