Item 00-2 - Bishop to Fr Courtney: Petition for separation - interrogatory

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GB ARCHON 2913 PA19-04-00-2

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Bishop to Fr Courtney: Petition for separation - interrogatory

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  • 30 May 1922 (Creation)

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1 page; embossed paper seal; side 1: headed; manuscript; side 2: manuscript

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(1868-1932)

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Born: Nice, France on 5 February 1868
Parents: Valentine Dudley Henry Cary Elwes & (second) wife Alice Geraldine née Ward
Ordained: 30 May 1896
Bishop: Diocese of Northampton from 21 November 1921 to 1 May 1932; consecration 15 December 1921 [principal consecrator was Cardinal Francis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop Arthur Doubleday of Brentwood and Bishop Thomas Dunn of Nottingham]
Died: 1 May 1932, aged 64,
Buried: Great Billing, Northamptonshire

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(1919-1925)

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1919-1925: Assistant priest at St Mary's Yarmouth

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RCDEAA holding XNP10 GY12

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Repeats the content of the original letter from Rev Dr Franz Fellinger and encloses the interrogatory (not available) to be put to Mr B Boulos. The Bishop delegates Fr Courtney to do this in the presence of a responsible person to act as a notary.
Side 2, Notary's handwritten record of answers to the questions put:
"1. Yes I have been disarrayed.

  1. The accusation is false.
  2. Indignantly denies having been to house of prostitution
  3. Denies walking out with a dancing woman or any woman.
  4. It is not true denies both points of accusation
    [undecipherable 5 words] by me (signed) Bishara Boulos"

Witness to the signature of B Boulos J Courtney SJ [word?] Delegate of [Bishop of Northampton]
(signed) Edward Julius Cox Notary

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      201mm x 253mm

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      Draft

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