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CAHALAN WILFRED
Born 1874
Ordained 1899
Died 31.12.1959
Fr Cahalan was ordained in Lisbon in 1899. He served as a Curate
from 1894 to 1900 at St John's Rochdale and similarly from 1904 to 1914
at St Albans Blackburn. In 1914 he became the first Rector at SS
Peter and Paul Barrowford where he served until he died.
CAHILL MICHAEL
Born 28 September 1863
Ordained 1889
Died 22 June 1922
Born in Manchester, Fr Cahill was trained at St Alban's College, Valladolid
and was ordained by Bishop Vaughan in Salford Cathedral in 1889. He served
as assistant at St Patrick, Livesey Street, Manchester; at St Chad, Cheetham
Hill, Manchester; at St Mary, Blackburn and at St Mary, Swinton. He was
rector at St Mary, Littleborough, 1897; at St Vincent, Openshaw and at
St Mary, Radcliffe. He then served as administrator at St Mary, Osbaldeston,
before returning to Littleborough. He then helped at both the Holy Family
and at St Augustine, Manchester. In 1910 he went as chaplain the orphanage
and Industrial School at Buckley Hall near Rochdale. He died in June 1922
after a short illness and was buried at Moston Cemetery.
Sources: Obituary 1923 Almanac
CALABRESE VITO LUIGI
Born 8 April 1841
Ordained September 1863
Died date unknown
Born Piedimonte, Italy, Fr Calabrese was educated in Piedimonte,
at Naples University, and was ordained at Piedimonte on his own patrimony.
He entered the diocese on 15 July 1876 and was sent as assistant priest
to St Augustine, Manchester. He seems to have left within the year, as
he is not mentioned in the first Diocesan Almanac of 1877, nor in the
Catholic Directory of 1878. His initials are given as "V. A."
in the 1877 Catholic Directory.
Sources: PV1 148
CALLAWAY JAMES
Born 1868
Ordained December 1892
Died 12 June 1933
One of fifteen children of James Norman Callaway and his wife, of whom
four sons became priests of the diocese, Fr Callaway was born at Bath
in 1862 and was educated at Prior Park. He came to this diocese because
of ill health. He served as chaplain to the Good Shepherd Convent, Blackley,
1896-1897; as assistant at St Joseph, Darwen, 1897-1904; as chaplain to
Hope Hospital in Salford, 1904-1912 and as rector at St Mary, Oswaldtwistle,
1912-1933. He was renowned for fostering vocations and died in 1933
after many years of illness.
Sources: Obituary 1935 Almanac
CALLAWAY JOSEPH
Born 1873
Ordained 6 August 1899
Died 4 July 1944
Parents - James Norman Callaway.
Born Bath
Educated at Ushaw
1899-1913 St Mary Bolton
1913-1916 Hope Hospital Salford Chaplain
1916-1926 St James Rawtenstall Parish Priest.
1926-1940 St Chad Manchester Parish Priest.
1940-1944 St Joseph Halliwell, Bolton Parish priest.
NOTES - One of four brother priests QV George Callaway. Canon
1940.
CALLAWAY THOMAS GEORGE
Born 1871
Ordained 12 July 1896
Died 4 July 1940
Parents - James Norman Callaway
Born - Bath
Educated at Ushaw
1896-1899 St Hubert Great Harwood
1899-1900 St Mary Blackburn
1900-1906 St Mary Eccles
1906-1913 Immaculate Conception Aspull Rector.
1913-1940 St Mary Chipping Parish priest.
NOTES - One of four brother priests QV George Callaway.
CAMPION RICHARD
Born 1869
Ordained 17 June 1894
Died 8 December 1928
Fr Campion was born at Ossory Co Kilkenny, Ireland, and educated at St
John's College, Waterford, where he was ordained in June 1984. he served
as assistant at St Ann, Blackburn, 1894-1895; at St Peter, Greengate,
Salford, 1895-1896; at St Ann, Blackburn, 1896-1900 and at Salford Cathedral,
1900-1903. He then became rector at St Patrick, Rochdale 1903-1928. He
completed the schools begun by Fr Cusack and built the presbytery. He
died in February 1928, and was buried in Rochdale Municipal Cemetery.
Sources: Obituary 1929 Almanac
CANAVAN JOHN
Born 1841
Ordained 1863
Died
Born in Belfast, Ireland, Fr Canavan was educated at Maynooth and
ordained in 1863 in Belfast. He was loaned to the diocese and served at
St Patrick, Bolton, but was recalled 20 September 1877.
CANNING JOHN
Born 23 April 1835
Ordained 2 October 1858
Died date unknown
Born in Gartsherry, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Fr Canning was the son of John
and Mary Canning (Kearney). His initial education started at Blairs College
in 1851, from which he ran away. By October 1853 he was attending a cramming
institution in Boulogne, France, and was accepted at the Scots College,
Rome in 1854, returning home for ordination in Glasgow, probably by Bishop
Alexander Smith, Vicar Apostolic for the Western District. He served as
priest at Dumbarton, 1858-1859; at Alexandria 1859-1868, and was chaplain
to the Little Sisters of the Poor in Glasgow 1868-1869. He then went to
Stranraer 1869-1879. He then came to the Salford diocese. It may be that
his departure was connected with the restoration of the Scottish Hierarchy
in 1878, when he found himself in the new diocese of Galloway. He soon
left Salford however, and no further details of his life or death are
known.
Sources - PV1200 - entered Diocese 19 August 1879 but soon departed.
No details of pastoral post. See also letter from James Darragh.
CANTWELL EDMOND
Born 1820
Ordained 21 June 1845
Died 25 January 1881
Edmond Canon Cantwell was born at Clowalsh, Waterford, Ireland
and received his education at St John's College, Waterford, and was ordained
in Waterford Cathedral. His first appointment was as assistant to Fr Formby
at St Mary, Mulberry St. Manchester. On 1 November 1845 he moved to St
Patrick, Livesey St, Manchester under Fr Roskell. In 1851 he succeeded
Roskell as rector when Roskell became Vicar General and moved to Salford
Cathedral. Fr Cantwell became a Canon when the Cathedral Chapter was erected
in 1852. He later became both a Missionary Rector and Dean. In 1877 be
retired to Clonmel where he died in January 1881.
Sources: Obituary 1882 Almanac p. 47
CANTWELL JOHN
Born 184?
Ordained 1870
Died 1928
1870-1871 St Wilfrid Hulme.
He may have served at Livesey Street in the following year although the
Directory does not so list him. Downside include him under Nottingham
Diocese.
CAPRON PHILIP J
Born 1831
Ordained 1856
Died 17 November 1902
Educated in France.
The Livesey St posting is not in the Directory. Mossley was served from
Manchester from February 1860 and Bolton claims Fr Capron served there
before Fr Grymonprey went in November 1861.
LD lists a priest of this name at Chesterfield in 1871.
23 April 1870 writes to The Tablet from Caithness, Orkney where
he for several years had been the first missionary since the days of John
Knox. The Tablet 20 July 1872 reports attack on him and riot.
"Before coming to the Diocese of Nottingham, Philip Capron served
in Wales. He spent two periods in the diocese of Nottingham, first as
parish priest of Barrow and Sileby 1886-1887 and Hathersage 1887-1888.
During the second period he was assistant priest at Skegness. In between
these two periods he was the first chaplain to the Home of the Little
Sisters of the poor in Sheffield 1889-1891. While in Hathersage he had
become friendly with the Rev,. Samuel Walshaw at St Marie's who invited
him to become the first chaplain to the Little Sisters. On leaving the
Little Sisters he returned to the Nottingham Diocese and was appointed
to Melton Mowbray. He lived in retirement until his death
17 November 1902" Some people of the Hathersage Mission 1780-1900
Barbara M Smith, Doncaster 1992.
Downside Listing: NPT List 13 Wales Co GL Ed fr Notes b* 1831 1856 1902
In Salford 1861-62 Went to SC (Wick) Tablet 23 April 1870 p.527; 20 July
1972 p.85. Served NTT 1886-87, 1896-97 (Dolan) Date of ordination uncertain
1856-1857 Spetisbury, Blandford (Marnhull?) Dorsetshire Assistant (Plymouth)
1857-1858 Camborne, Cornwall Assistant (Plymouth)
1859 No entry in LD
1860 LD has a "J. A. Capron" at Our Lady of the Rosary,
Winchester Row, London (Westminster)
1860-1861 St Patrick's, Livesey St
1861 LD gives address as 1 Green St, Oak St, Manchester (St Joseph's)
1861-1862 St Joseph's, Goulden St Assistant
1862 LD Mount St Mary's, Richmond Hill, Leeds in clergy list; no
parish entry
1862-1872 No entries in LD
1870-1872 Caithness, Orkney
1871 Chesterfield?
1872 LD Wick N.B.
1873-1874 LD no entries
1874-1878 Ebbw Vale (Newport & Menevia)
1878-1884 Maesteg (Newport & Menevia)
1884-1886 Coedangred, Skenfrith, Monmouth (Newport & Menevia)
1886-1887 Barrow on Soar, Loughborough & Sileby (Nottingham)
1887-1888 Hathersage (Nottingham)
1888-1889 Allison House, Walton, Chesterfield (Nottingham)
1889-1890 Little Sisters, Sheffield (195 St Mary's Rd) Chaplain
1890-1891 Little Sisters, Sheffield (161 Leadmill Rd)
1892-1893 LD No entries
1893-1894 LD "S.J. Capron Ross (Hereford) Newport & Menevia
1894-1896 LD No entries
1896-1897 Skegness Assistant (Nottingham)
1897-1898 Melton Mowbray (Clergy list: no parish entry) NB MM served from
Seminary
1899 LD No entry
1900 LD 46 Forest Rd Leicester (no parish entry)
1890-1902 LD No entry Retirement?
LD 1904 Obit 17 November 1902
CARBERRY F or Edward
Born
Ordained
Died
1834 Livesey Street Assistant
1838-1861 Chester.
CARDINAEL PETER JOHN
Born 21 February 1826
Ordained 19 December 1851
Died 14 February 1900
Born Bruges
Seminary Education - Bruges
1855-1856 St Mary Oldham
1861 Droylsden
1861-1862 St Mary Oldham, possibly as base from which to start new
parish.
1862-1868 St Patrick Oldham.
1868-1869 St Anne Fairfield
1869-1878 St Joseph Mossley
Notes - PV1-39 Came to Diocese December 1855. He was the first
diocesan priest at Droylsden (known better as St Anne, Fairfield) after
the OMI's left, but ceded place to the Franciscans when they arrived before
their eventual move to Gorton. He is not listed in the 1879 Almanac
LD1889 lists a priest of this name at St Mary, Canton, Cardiff.
Sources: Curley
CARR JAMES A
Born 4 June 1795
Ordained 4 September 1820
Died 14 February 1858
Son of John and Hannah Carr (Clayton), Fr Carr was born at Holme Slack
near Preston. His mother was descended from the Westby family of Mowbreck,
and he was indirectly related to the Clifton's of Lytham and to Bishop
Gradwell. He was the uncle of Mgr James Carr (1826-1913), the Liverpool
diocesan Vicar General. Studied at Stonyhurst. Became a Jesuit,
temporarily quitting the Society in 1827, then rejoining but finally left
in 1829. Abbott gives the date of death as 1 February 1858
1821-1822 Stonyhurst
1822-1826 Norwich
1826-1827 Worcester
1827-1829 Stonyhurst (but left Society for a short while, then rejoined)
1833 Chaplain at Wardour
1838-1841 Sunnyside, Burnley (Rawtenstall)
1836-1847 Singleton, rector.
1847-1850 In retirement at Alton Abbey, Staffs (Fr Dennison, B'ham Dioc.
Archives)
1850-1858 St Edward's, Runcorn, rector
Sources: Abbott, CRS 16 p.579, Gillow 1, p.402-3
CARR JOHN A
Born
Ordained
Died
CARROLL HUGH
Born 18 October 1847
Ordained 19 September 1874
Died 19 August 1900
Born in Manchester, Fr Carroll was educated at the Catholic Collegiate
Institute, Salford Catholic Grammar School, where he was one of
the very first pupils, and the English College, Valladolid, being ordained
there by the Cardinal Archbishop of Valladolid. After serving as assistant
at Salford Cathedral for one year, 1874-1875, Bishop Vaughan sent him
back to Valladolid as a Professor, 1875-1878. Returning to Manchester,
he was appointed as assistant in his home parish of St Chad, Cheetham
Hill, Manchester under Canon Sheehan, 1878-1885. He then went as rector
to St Mary, Radcliffe, 1885-1890 before going to his final post as rector
at St Mary, Blackburn 1890-1900. While there he served on the School Board.
He fell seriously ill in 1893, and although he rallied, he lost his former
vigour and suffered recurring ill health until his death. He was deeply
involved in matters of ecclesiastical education. He was buried in the
family vault at Moston Cemetery on 22 August 1900.
Sources: Obituary 1901 Almanac; PV1-114
CARROLL J
Born
Ordained
Died
CARRUCCIO SALVATORE
Born 25 December 1846
Ordained 26 December 1876
Died 27 December 1903
Fr Carruccio was born in Naples, Italy, on Christmas Day. After being
conscripted into the army, he deserted, was befriended by brigands, and
eventually sought refuge in the then Papal States. Thus began a slow,
unusual preparation for the priesthood. He acted as Master of Ceremonies
at a Rome Basilica, and studied at a Papal University. Bishop Herbert
Vaughan met him, used him as Procurator for the Mill Hill Missionaries,
brought him to the Diocese and eventually ordained him at Salford Cathedral
on his own patrimony. He was sent as assistant to Fr Stephan, and later
Canon Byrne at St Joseph, Goulden Street, Manchester 1877-1885. He then
went successively as rector to St Joseph, Todmorden, 1885-1890; St Gabriel,
Castleton, 1890-1897 and All Souls, Weaste, Salford, 1897-1903 where he
died. He was buried in Weaste Cemetery on 30 December 1903.
Sources: - PV1; Obituary Harvest 1903; Obituary 1904 Almanac.
CARTER EDMUND Canon
Born 8 August 1816
Ordained 6 January 1841
Died 10 February 1875
Native of Salmesbury.
Son of Richard and Margery (Banks).
Educated at Valladolid 1830-1839, and Ushaw.
1841-1842 Livesey Street and elsewhere. He offered his services
in Liverpool
during the plague and being stricken by the fever though he slowly
recovered.
1845 SS Peter and Paul, Bolton where he died after serving as Parish
Priest
for many years.
Whilst there he helped found several daughter parishes including Aspulk
(1854) and Westhoughton (1873). He became Canon in 1852.
Visited Valladolid in 1856, 1869 (including a trip to Rome) and 1872,
escorting pupils out to the College. He was buried at Brindle where
he had in fact been baptised on the day of his birth by Fr James Pope
O.S.B.
CARTER WILLIAM
Born 1807
Ordained 1826
Died 13 July 1853
Born in Lancashire.
Educated at Ushaw.
1828 - 1847 Succeeded Fr John Bell at Salmesbury.
1847 St Joseph's Liverpool.
CASARTELLI LOUIS CHARLES
Fourth Bishop of Salford
Born 14 November 1852
Ordained 10 September 1876
Consecrated 21 September 1903
Died 18 January 1925
Louis Charles Casartelli, son of Joseph Louis and Jane Henrietta
Casartelli (Nee Ronchetti) was born in Manchester, educated at the
Salford Catholic Grammar School, Ushaw, and Louvain University. He was
ordained by Bishop Vaughan. He was placed on the staff of St Bede's College,
as Prefect of Studies, and then as rector 1877-1903, and then became Bishop
of Salford 1903-1925. He was a brilliant academic and linguist, especially
in oriental languages, a diary keeper, and lecturer at Louvain and Manchester
Universities.
Sources: PV1-157; Plumb; Obituary 1926 Almanac.
Brian Plumb wrote of Casartelli:
Son of Joseph Louis and Jane Henrietta Casartelli (Ronchetti), born on
14 November 1852, at 2 Clarence Street, Manchester, where his father was
an optician. He was a most intelligent child, and it was said that his
brain was as wax to receive and marble to retain. He forgot nothing, and
it was also said that the piety he learned at his mother's knee led him
to the sanctuary.
As a boy at Salford Catholic Grammar School, having nothing else to do
one afternoon, he reputedly learned Flemish. Be that as it may, he was
fluent in that language as he was in French, German, Italian and Spanish.
As a student at Ushaw he won the gold medal for Classics, and gained an
MA degree externally from London University, though in later life
he condemned the system of external degree taking, describing it as a
tyrannous fetish destructive of true culture.
He completed his theological studies in the University of Louvain where
he specialised in Eastern languages, an interest first acquired - so he
said - through a chance encounter with a book in the Manchester Free Library.
He was an avid diary keeper, often writing in several languages on the
one page, and frequently using the prayer (in Latin) "0 God be merciful
to me a sinner".
He was ordained priest by Bishop (later Cardinal) Vaughan on 10 September
1876, and appointed to the teaching staff of St Bede's College, Manchester,
where he saw the new buildings rise brick by brick. In 1884 he returned
to Louvain and obtained a Doctorate in Oriental Literature. After further
teaching at St Bede's, he was appointed rector there in 1891. From 1898
he lectured five times each Lent term at Louvain, Sanskrit, Zend and Pehievi
becoming his speciality. He was lecturer in Iranian languages in the University
of Manchester, and offered a similar post at Oxford but was unable to
accept it.
In 1903 he was nominated bishop of Salford but wrote to Rome begging to
decline. His appeal was rejected and he wrote to Abbot Gasquet "if
the wish did not sound rather an impiety 1 could almost desire that Cardinal
Gotti might have held me suspect of Liberalism and other dreadful things"
(1 September 1903). He was consecrated in St John's Cathedral, on 21 September
1903 by Archbishop-elect Bourne, with Bishops Whiteside and Alien as co-consecrators.
The poor Catholics of Manchester and Salford took great pride in the appointment,
and when charged that nobody with any intelligence could possibly be a
Catholic, would reply "Well just look at our Bishop". Bishop
Casartelli was one of the first bishops in England to attempt concerted
Catholic Action. He produced a monthly journal The Federationist and
never failed to make a contribution on contemporary issues. He was President
of the Manchester Dante Society and one of the few (at that time) British
members of the Royal Asiatic Society. Philip Hughes (Eng. Catholics p.38)
writes of him "a really Cosmopolitan mind -- and a variety of intellectual
sympathies that recalled Wiseman".
One incident had an unfortunate effect In a constituency where the Catholic
vote was decisive, Winston Churchill was defeated because of his Liberal
Governments policy on Catholic education. But because the Irish Catholics
approved of its policy on Ireland, considerable bitterness was aroused.
Bishop Casartelli died at Bishops House, Chapel Street, Salford on 18
January 1925, and is buried in Moston Cemetery, Manchester.
Almanac for Salford Diocese 1926; S.Leslie,Cardinal Gasguet 88;
Manchester Registry Office; Birth Certificate: Tablet 24 January
1925 108,109, 140.
The obituary in the 1926 Almanac is as follows:
Louis Charles Casartelli, fourth Bishop of Salford, was born of
Italian parents, long resident in Manchester at Cheetham, on Nov. 14th,
1852. Those were stirring times and the Catholic body was aglow
with endeavour. The great Church of St. John's, Salford, begun
in '44 and opened in '48, bore striking witness to the great revival.
The re-establishment of the Hierarchy in '50 and the erection of the Diocese
of Salford, the era. of Catholic activity inaugurated by Bishop Turner;
the building of nearly a score of noble Churches within a space of 20
years; the growth of Catholic Elementary and Higher Education ; the advent
of the Teaching Orders of Notre Dame, Loreto, and the Faithful Companions
of Jesus and the Xaverian Brothers, with the fruitful work for the education
of Catholic youth, embodied in the Catholic Collegiate Institute and the
Salford Catholic Grammar School : such was the story poured into the responsive
cars of little Louis at the table of his good and pious parents. For his
earliest days were spent in association with this remarkable development
of Catholic life and his young soul was undoubtedly kindled by the fires
of stern endeavour arid generous sacrifice on the part of the Catholic
community, amongst whom his devoted parents were proud to range themselves.
He never lost this ardour of soul till the close of his eventful life,
when the schoolboy of the Spartan Grammar School of Salford had achieved
a European reputation as a scholar, a Bishop, and a publicist. He warmed
both hands at the fires of Catholic life of his early days and he gave
of his best in the ardour of achievement for the cause of the awakening
Catholic forces. To understand the life's of Bishop Casartelli, in its
early growth, in its adolescent development, in its achievement
in later life, the vivid tradition to which he had succeeded, and to which
he faithfully adhered all his life, must never be lost sight of.
At the age of nine the future Bishop was sent to the Salford Grammar School
and came under the influence of those two fine masters of the Science
of the Saints, the saintly de Clerc and de Splenter. "Wax to receive,
marble to retain," the piety he had received at his mother's knee
found a ready home in this sanctuary of Apostolic fervour.
From the Grammar School he proceeded to the ancient Seminary of Ushaw,
where his keen intellectual powers, aided by his wonderful memory and
deep sense of concentration, received their wider development, with the
result that he graduated M.A. in 1873 at the University of London, with
the added distinction of the gold medal for classics. The following year
he went to the revived University of Louvain for his further studies in
theology and Eastern languages, a taste for which he had suddenly fancied,
we are told, by the chance perusal of a book in the Manchester Free Library.
This sudden fancy is a key to his life decisions hereafter: the rapid
and sound judgments dominated by an intellectual prudence which was almost
uncanny, and performed with an ease which appeared effortless.
He was ordained priest at the Cathedral, on September 10th, 1876, and
was immediately appointed to the teaching staff of St. Bede's College,
the famous school founded by Bishop Herbert Vaughan, the then Bishop of
Salford. Here he became associated with this great Churchman and shared
with him the fruitful development of this great College. Literally, it
may be said that he saw it in process of construction, brick by brick.
No wonder he loved it.
In 1884 he went to Louvain to take his degree as Doctor of Oriental Literature
and in 1891 he became Rector of St. Bede's College, when he became the
chief instrument in the fusion of the old Grammar School, with its Spartan
democratic tradition, with the existing St. Bede's College, an act of
great significance and importance to the Catholic body, anticipating as
it did and preparing for the educational developments of the Education
Acts of 1902 and 1918.
When Professor de Harles died in 1898, he succeeded him at Louvain and
lectured for five terms in the Lent term. The Semitic languages, Sanskrit,
Zend and Pehlevi became his speciality. In 1903 he was appointed lecturer
in Iranian languages at the Manchester University. In 1024 he received
and accepted an invitation from the University of Oxford to become the
Katrak lecturer in Iranian subjects. He was, however, unable to
fulfil the task as the following October found him sickening unto death.
He was a fluent speaker ill many European languages, among them being
French, Italian, Spanish, German and Flemish.
And now we come to the severance from the life he held so dear and which
he had adorned with such conspicuous eminence: he was elected Bishop of
Salford in the September of 1903, and was consecrated on Sept. 21st by
Archbishop, now Cardinal, Bourne. The Benedictine Cardinal (then Abbot)
Gasquet preached by his request: it was an earliest of the cordial relations
which ever existed between him as Bishop and the Regular Orders of his
Diocese.
After his fruitless appeal to Rome to be released from the heavy burden
of the Episcopate, he flung himself with characteristic ardour into his
newly appointed task, fully conscious of the splendid heritage to which
he had succeeded. It was presaged by an influential member of the Chapter
on the occasion of the great gathering of the clergy and laity to welcome
their new prelate, in the then St. James' Hall, that the policy of the
new Shepherd of the Diocese would be in the direction of education. Bishop
Turner had consolidated the new See: Bishop Vaughan had thrown over it
the mantle of his prestige and inspiring leadership: Bishop Bilsborrow
had centralised his efforts on the education of the future clergy of the
Diocese and achieved the temporary safety of our Catholic Schools,
preparing his flock for defence: it remained for Bishop Casartelli to
take the reins of government and to bring his people nearer to himself
for the cause of God and the salvation of souls. For this purpose many
cherished associations of the deepest interest had to be abandoned.
For many years he had edited the Illustrated Foreign Missions and
while his zeal for the conversion of the heathen remained unabated to
the end, his activity in editing the journal had to be abandoned.
His ideal of citizenship was illustrated by the full part he played in
the community life of Manchester and Salford: he became the founder and
president of the Manchester Dante Society from 1906 and of the Manchester
Egyptian Association in 1908-10, the president of the Manchester Statistical
Society from 1898-1900 and a supporter of the Oriental, Geographical,
Antiquarian and other Societies. On December 18th, 1918, he was elected
an Honorary Member of the Royal Asiatic Society which he declares in his
diary of the day as "a most astonishing and unexpected honour."
An honour, indeed, which he shared with few Englishmen.
His zeal for the advancement of Catholics in public life was gratified
by the election of Alderman, afterwards Sir Daniel, McCabe and Alderman
Fox to the office of Lord Mayor, respectively, of the City of Manchester
and he sustained them, successively, by his encouragement in the discharge
of their civic responsibilities and duties. Twice Alderman Carus and later
his son were Mayors of Darwen, and Alderman Thompson Mayor of Eccles,
during his episcopate.
His diaries, kept with meticulous care from the age of eleven to his death,
indicate that from the second year of his episcopate his health was unequal
to the strain of public life. The evening meetings and addresses were
followed by the recurring trouble of chest and lungs. Still he kept to
his task with unfailing patience and Christian fortitude. Day after day,
he interviewed the many callers: none suspecting the endurance of the
sufferer. Engagement after engagement, especially in the winter months,
had to be cancelled at the last moment when he hoped against hope to discharge
his undertaking. No one suspected -not even those near and dear to him-
the pain it cost him to fail in an appointment. "O God ! be merciful
to me, a sinner," is the frequent prayer of the sufferer, as written,
not once but many a time, in his diaries. Still he persevered, husbanding
his resources to the best of his power, but the struggle is poignantly
manifest in his narrative. To aid him in his work, at his own request
the Rt. Rev. Monsignor John Vaughan was appointed by the Holy See as his
Auxiliary.
He had described the present age as the age of the laity and round him
he gathered the many Catholic Societies which had sprung up during his
period of office. At one period of his episcopate he could count only
4 Diocesan Societies in operation; in the last year of his occupancy of
the See he could marshal 23. His interest in Church Music found expression
in the creation of the Guild of St. Cecilia and St. Gregory which did
such remarkable work in the spread of ecclesiastical music. In the autumn
of 1906 he was asked to sanction the formation of a Diocesan Branch of
the Catholic Women's League. Front the outset he gave to this fine Society
the utmost encouragement in their many activities for Girls' Clubs, Poor
Churches, Mothers and Babies' Welcomes, Belgium Refugees, Army Huts, etc.
In Sept., 1908, he was approached with regard the establishment of "
Chums," afterwards called The Catenians and by his careful guidance
gave the Catholic Professional and business men a lead in the direction
of mutual co-operation. His interest in the Catholic Truth Society - that
admirable organisation which deals so zealously and successfully with
the spread of Catholic truth in all its departments - needs only to be
mentioned in order to recall that his last public appearance was in connection
with the Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of the late James Britten,
K.S.G., at St. Mary's, Manchester. He loved to attend the Meetings of
the Brothers of St. Vincent de Paul and all will recall the pleasure he
evinced in their proceedings, particularly the celebration of the Centenary
of Frederick Ozanan. The lads and girls of his Diocese were the subject
of his constant careful thought, as witness his numerous efforts in connection
with the Boy' Brigades, Scouts, Girl Guides, etc. Space will not allow
us to follow the work of the good Bishop in fostering the endeavours of
the many other excellent Societies of the Diocese.
To describe accurately the relationship between Bishop Casartelli and
the Salford Diocesan Catholic Federation would involve writing the history
of that Federation. He was its Founder and its President - not a founder
in the sense of founding something and leaving it to others to carry on,
not a President in the sense of presiding over something in a more or
less ornamental fashion. His was the hand which sustained it and without
which it could not live. By its very nature, as the instrument of the
Bishop by which he declared his will to the community, it followed that
its every act was a responsible one because it represented him and was
responsible to him. "If any one asks you" he said on notable
occasion, "whom do you represent ? Your reply will be that you represent
me."
Obviously such a relationship might easily mean that he was taking over
am impossible burden. He was embarking upon an experiment which was unique
in the history of the Church in this country. That experiment meant that
he would give the fullest outlet to the energies and abilities of his
laymen and lay women in association with their parish priest: that he
would erect democratic machinery: that he would permit them to deal with
all things Catholic on their public side and with nothing that was not
Catholic: and that when this machine was working at full pressure its
wheels would always and everywhere turn in absolute obedience to him.
He was told that he was preparing a rod for his own back but twenty years
experience sufficed to belie the prophets and to prove that he had prepared
not a rod but a democracy that never chafed under his instructions but
always bent with eagerness and loyalty to his will. He managed it by inspiring
and trusting his people, by leaving to them all details and all questions
already governed by his previous decisions and by providing that all new
questions should be submitted to him day by day as they arose
.
When the Federation's resolution against Socialism was drafted, he, in
approving it, suggested that commodities might be nationalised as all
act of police - a pregnant phrase which effectively safeguards
the principle. He insisted that t should be represented at the Christian
International at the Hague. When Catholic Trade Unionists in 1906 found
their consciences disturbed by the menace of Secular Education he listened
to their case and presented them with their solution. During the long
seven years which followed before victory was finally secured, he was
always supporting and encouraging them. He acted in the same manner towards
Catholic Co-operators, during their three year fight against divorce in
the Co-operative movement and his was the telegram of congratulation
which they received when victory was announcer at Leicester Congress.
It was also in 1906 that the general educational menace presented itself
to the Catholic body and it was in that year that he founded his Catholic
Federation - a Federation which, as he said in a pastoral, should be regarded
as the chief characteristic of his episcopate. From that day onwards
he engineered his Federation's activities against the Birrell Bill, the
McKenna Bill, the Runciman Bill, the single schools areas Bill and other
measures. Perhaps it was the two Fisher Bills that illustrated more than
any other his effective method of working in and through his Federation.
A Federation which had been primarily established to fight for Catholic
schools soon tuned its attention to all public questions which affected
the Catholic body. Bishop Casartelli continually placed question
after question before his Federation: Catholics and the Press; Catholics
and Public Representation; Catholics on the Magisterial Bench; Catholics
and the Theatre; Catholics and the Cinema; Catholics and Public Morality;
Catholics and Picture Postcards; Catholics and Religious facilities; none
of these questions did he allow to escape him.
Having launched his Federation ship, upon what was bound to be from the
nature of things, to be a more or less stormy passage, he never allowed
the ship to face the storm alone. Had he done so, it would have
foundered. Whether or no it was a premonition of his approaching end,
he proceeded in 1923 to secure At Francis de Sales as the peculiar patron
of his Federation, and to secure those indulgences which the Holy Father
so richly lavished upon the Federation. Looking back, it would seem that
he completed his work for Federation in every sense.
During his episcopate he created over 20 new parishes and over 12 new
secondary schools were brought into being.
The frequent attacks of illness had left their effect upon his vitality
until it became evident that the forces which governed his life had nearly
run their course. He prayed that he might be able to live till Xmas to
make his Jubilee and God granted his prayer. In his last days when
scarcely able to hold a book, taking advantage of the momentary occupation
of his nurse, he was detected with Cox's Life of Cardinal Vaughan in his
bandaged hands, reading once again how that prelate ended his days. Imitating
his great model, he, with all ceremony, made his profession of faith,
before his Chapter and sent out a last message to his clergy asking for
forgiveness for any act of disedification as priest and Bishop. He died,
fortified with the rites of Mother Church, January 18th 1925.
On the same day, and continuing to the following Thursday, a continuous
and unceasing stream of mourners filed past the body as it lay in state
in his Cathedral; while the British, Continental, South American and Indian
Press chronicled the proceedings and supplied obituary columns, with remarkable
attention. Each evening witnessed the long queue of people, marshalled
by the constabulary and waiting outside the Cathedral, and the Dirge saw
the same crowd of mourners, culminating in an estimated number of 40,000
people who witnessed the funeral on the Thursday. That funeral was attended
by His Eminence Cardinal Bourne and eight bishops; heads of religious
Orders, both men and women; representatives from the Chapters of Liverpool,
Leeds and Nottingham; the clergy from dioceses other than Salford; the
Members of Parliament for the Borough of Salford; the Lord Mayor, the
Sheriffs, the Recorder and Town Clerk of the City of Manchester, the Mayor,
Town Clerk and Stipendiary of Salford; the Chief Constable of Manchester;
the Italian, Belgium, United States, Venezuelan and Spanish Consuls; the
Civic Bodies of Manchester and Salford, and all the Catholic organisations
of the diocese. Thus were prayers for his souls and regrets for his death
coupled with admiration for his memory and gratification with the feelings
that memory had evoked.
CASEY WILLIAM JOSEPH
Born 1853
Ordained 17 February 1884
Died 13 May 1889
Fr Casey was born at Balroe, in the diocese of Meath, Ireland. and was
educated at St Mary's, Mullingar, at Navan Seminary, at Carlow College
and at Ushaw. Ordained in Salford, he was appointed assistant to Canon
Sheehan at St Chad, Manchester, where he died in 1889.
Sources: - PV1 - 247 - Obituary 1890 Almanac p. 44. One source says ordained
at Cenacle Convent, Manchester.
CASSIDY LAWRENCE
Born 1851
Ordained September 1873
Died 2 March 1922
Born in Ireland, Fr Cassidy was educated at Fishertown, Skerries College,
and having joined the Franciscan Order at 16, the Franciscan College of
St Isodore, Rome. He was ordained at the St John Lateran Basilica, Rome.
For 25 years he was attached to the "Adam and Eve" Church in
Dublin where he became Guardian. In 1899 the regulations of the Leonine
Union permitted Fr Cassidy to come to the Salford diocese. He served as
assistant at St Chad, Manchester, 1899-1907, before becoming rector at
St Edward, Lees, 1907-1909; then at St Mary, Ashton under Lyne, 1909-1911
and finally at St Patrick, Livesey Street, Manchester, 1911-1922.
Sources: Obituary 1923 Almanac
Query Obituary Almanac 1923 lists him as having been at St Anne,
Ashton but Almanacs for 1910-1911 list him at St Mary Ashton under Lyne.
CATON THOMAS
Born 16 September 1756
Ordained 11 March 1780
Died 14 September 1826
Born at Broughton Preston.
Son of John and Ann (Gregson).
Educated at Lisbon where he was ordained.
1782-1785 Alston Lane, Towneley Hall, Cucheth Hall Winwick.
1791-1792 Formby
1777 Towneley Hall
1820 Woodplumpton, and Cotam.
CHANDLER CHARLES H
Born 1849
Ordained 1882
Died 1924
1890-1891 St Michael Ancoats
1891-1892 Chaplain - Crumpsall Workhouse
Notes - Downside list him under Clifton Diocese - not in 1893 Almanac.
CHEASTY MAURICE
Born 1 June 1865
Ordained 15 June 1889
Died
Born Dunmore East, Waterford, Ireland.
Seminary Education - St John's College, Waterford
Place of Ordination - St John's College, Waterford.
1889-1894 St Ann Blackburn.
Notes - PV1 295 - On loan and recalled 1895. Not in 1895 Almanac.
Downside spell his name "Chasty".
CHIPP HENRY
Born 10 December 1864
Ordained 24 August 1891
Died 11 April 1937
Henry Canon Chipp was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1864 but came
to England in his infancy. He was educated at St Bede's College, Manchester,
and at Ushaw. He returned from Ushaw to be a professor at St Bede's College
and then completed his studies at Bonn University before being ordained
at Salford Cathedral in 1891. He joined the Cathedral staff 1892-1897
and was then sent as rector to St John, Rochdale 1897-1937. He became
a Canon in 1915. He built and decorated the new church, and worked hard
for Catholic Education, building new schools, and winning the admiration
of the Board of Education officials. He died in April 1937 and was buried
at Wardley Cemetery.
Sources: Obituary 1938 Almanac which gives dob as 11 December 1864; PV1
308
CHRONNELL THOMAS
Born 1 September 1859
Ordained 1 November 1886
Died 27 June 1906
Born in Manchester, Fr Chronnell studied at the Salford Catholic Grammar
School and St Alban's College, Valladolid (1874-1880), returning to England
as Prefect of Studies at Salford Catholic Grammar School for two years.
He then continued his priestly studies at St Sulpice in Paris 1882-1886,
being ordained by Bishop Vaughan. He was initially sent as assistant to
St Joseph, Blackburn 1886-1890. He was then appointed rector of the combined
missions of St Mary, Littleborough and St Joseph, Todmorden. In 1891 he
was appointed founder rector of the new mission of St Boniface, Lower
Broughton, Salford 1891-1893, when he also was made rector of St Peter,
Greengate, Salford. In 1894 he resigned these missions and went as assistant
to St Wilfrid, Hulme, and then to St Joseph, Nelson 1894-1896. He then
became founder rector of another new mission, Holy Trinity, Brierfield,
1896-1902, where he built the school-chapel. His final mission as rector
was St Anne, Greenacres, Oldham 1902-1906 where he died in his 47th year
after fourteen years of ill health
Sources: PV1 269; Obituary 1907 Almanac
Query Brother of Cuthbert (QV)
CLAASE RUDOLPH HERMAN
Born 8 June 1851
Ordained 15 August 1877
Died 11 December 1929
Born Terborg, Holland, in 1851 Fr Claase was trained at Rysenburg Seminary
and was ordained in Utrecht by its Archbishop in 1877. He was one
of that band of Dutch priests who responded to Bishop Vaughan's appeal.
Coming to the diocese, he spent a short spell at the Seminary of Pastoral
Theology in Salford and was sent as assistant to St Mary, Mulberry Street,
Manchester, 1877-1882 and at St Ann, Blackburn, 1882-1886. In June
1886 he succeeded Fr Lathouers at the Sacred Heart, Darwen and remained
there as rector until his retirement forty two years later. To the existing
church he added a presbytery, schools, a girls' hostel and a convent.
He also served on the Board of Guardians, and on the School Board. Having
celebrated his Golden Jubilee in 1927, and feeling he could no longer
provide fully for the needs of his flock, he retired in July 1928 to St
Anne's on Sea. Sixteen months later, in December 1929, he died and
was buried at Pleasington Cemetery.
Sources: Obituary 1931 Almanac; PV1 192
CLAMPETT JOSEPH
Born
Ordained 1852
Died
1860-1861 St Patrick Livesey Street Manchester.
Notes - Received £5 from Mission Fund in 1860-1861.
CLARKE FRANCIS
Born 1861
Ordained 1887
Died 21 October 1938
Born at Horwich in Lancashire in 1861, Fr Clarke studied at Ushaw
and Oscott and was ordained a priest of the Southwark diocese at Portsmouth
Cathedral in 1887. After twelve years work there as a diocesan priest,
he returned to his home diocese and served as assistant at the English
Martyrs, Urmston, 1899-1900; at Salford Cathedral, 1900-1901; at St Edmund,
Miles Platting, Manchester, 1901-1905; and at All Saints, Barton, 1905-1907.
He was appointed rector at St Joseph, Shaw, 1907-1927 and parish priest
at St James the Less, Rawtenstall, 1927-1937. He celebrated his Golden
Jubilee in 1937, and decided to retire. Some months later, he suddenly
of heart failure in October 1938.
Sources: Obituary 1939 Almanac
Query: Southwark diocese Portsmouth cathedral??? Croft records a
Francis Clark admitted to Lisbon 1883. Left 1884. Ordained
Olton Seminary 25 February 1888 who went to Miles Platting. No priest
of this name is listed in our Almanacs as being there in the X1Xth century.
CLARKSON SETH HENRY
Born 25 August 1831
Ordained 19 December 1857
Died 11 April 1880
Born in Biggleswade, in the diocese of Northampton, Fr Clarkson was educated
at Ushaw and the Venerable English College, Rome. He was ordained by Bishop
Turner in Salford Cathedral. His first appointment was as assistant at
St Chad, Manchester 1857-1868. He then went to St Wilfrid, Longridge but
returned to Manchester in 1869 as Chaplain to Salford Gaol and Strangeways
Prison. When Canon Benoit was appointed as Rector of Mill Hill College
by Bishop Vaughan, Fr Clarkson succeeded him as Cathedral Administrator
1872-1874. His health began to cause concern, and he was moved to the
new mission of St Cuthbert, Withington on Whit Sunday 1874 as founder
rector. Taken ill while returning home from a sick call at Withington
Hospital, he died and was buried in Moston Cemetery.
Sources - PV1.46 - Turner refers to him in correspondence to Mgt Newsham
at Ushaw. PA/LA3 of 17 August 1856. Barre omits his appointment to Longridge.
Obituary 1881 Almanac p. 47-48.
CLASSE RUDOLPH HERMANMA
Born 1851
Ordained 1877
Died 1929
COBB GEORGE
Born 1874
Ordained 1899
Died 1951
189-1900 St Anne, Ancoats
1900-1901 St Bede's College, Manchester Professor.
1903-1908 St Mary Burnley.
1908-1913 St Joseph, Blackburn.
1913-1917 St Vincent, Openshaw Rector.
1929-1951 St Gregory Farnworth Parish priest.
Notes - Pioneer of pilgrimages from Lancashire to Lourdes and Honorary
Canon of Lourdes. In 1931, daughter parish of Our Lady of Lourdes
was cut off from Farnworth. Buried at Wardley.
COELENBIER ADOLPHUS L
Born 1 September 1853
Ordained 28 September 1879
Died 17 June 1912
Born in Bruges, Belgium, Fr Coelenbier trained at St Louis College,
Bruges, and Ushaw, and was ordained in Salford Cathedral by Bishop Herbert
Vaughan. He was first appointed to St Joseph Industrial School, Longsight
Manchester, 1879-1880 before being sent as assistant to St Mary, Ashton
under Lyne, 1880-1881, and then to St Marie, Bury 1881-1882, and finally
to St Gregory, Farnworth, 1882-1887. He returned to Ashton under Lyne
as rector to St Mary, 1887-1898, before going as rector to Sacred Heart,
Westhoughton, 1898-1912. He defended the Belgium Congo administration
against attacks by Mr D Moral, receiving a letter of thanks from King
Leopold. At Westhoughton, he had to attend victims and their families
of the Hulton colliery disaster. He served as a representative of the
Education Authority, the District Council, and the Board of Guardians
of the Poor. He retired in 1912 to Bruges where he died, attended by his
priest brother, Canon L Coelenbier of Taunton.
Sources: Obituary 1913 Almanac; PV1 205; NWCH Vol 12 1985.
Query: At Ushaw twice? Obit is confusing. Rector at AuL@ St Mary (Obit)
or St Anne?
CONEFRY JOHN
Born 25 March 1852
Ordained 28 December 1879
Died
Born - Carmina, Ardagh, Ireland.
Seminary Education - St Mel's College, Longford.
Ordained - St Mel's College
1880 Good Shepherd Convent, Manchester - January - March.
1880-1882 St Michael, Ancoats, Manchester.
1882-1888 St Joseph Heywood.
Notes - PV1 207 - Not affiliated. Presume recalled.
Canning - "Bishops of Ireland" p 71 - states he was\s on loan
from Diocese of Ardagh Clonmacnois. In his "relative"
for both 1880-1885 he lists one priest on loan to Salford - lists John
Conefry 1879.
CONNELL FRANCIS
Born 25 May 1872
Ordained 1894
Died 11 March 1904
Born at Agra in India, the son of Major Connell (from Southport)
Fr Connell returned to Ireland and was ordained for the Diocese
of Waterford. He was loaned to the Salford Diocese in 1894
and was sent as assistant to Salford cathedral 1894-1898. Ill health required
a spell of sick leave, and he was then sent to assist Canon Tynan at St
Gregory, Farnworth, 1898-1904. Taken seriously ill on 3 March, he was
transferred to Manchester Royal Infirmary where he died on 11 March and
was buried at Moston on 15 March.
Sources: Obituary Harvest April 1904; Obituary 1905 Almanac
1905.
CONNELL J
Born
Ordained
Died
CONNOR JOHN
Born 25 February 1867
Ordained 12 July 1896
Died 13 February 1929
Born in Mossley, Fr Connor was educated at Salford Catholic Grammar
School and St Alban's College, Valladolid. He was ordained in 1896 at
St Edmund, Miles Platting, Manchester. He was sent as assistant to Fr
Smith at St Joseph, Nelson 1896-1901 before being appointed as founder
rector of the Holy Saviour, Nelson, 1901-1913, where he built the church
and presbytery. He then moved as rector to St John the Baptist, Burnley
1913-1922, and served for several years as a member of the Board of Guardians.
His final posting was as parish priest at St Patrick Livesey Street Manchester,
1922-1929. He replaced both the condemned Boys' School and Senior
Girls' School with new buildings, with room for 500 boys and 1000 girls
at a cost of £18,500. His health began to fail two years before his death.
He took ill on Shove Tuesday, and died on Ash Wednesday, 1929, and was
buried at Moston Cemetery.
Sources: Obituary 1930 Almanac
CONWAY FRANCIS
Born 9 February 1842
Ordained December 1867
Died 12 April 1869
Born Manchester
Seminary Education - Ushaw Rome
1868 Salford Cathedral.
Notes - Recently ordained (c1866/67) Died of typhus caught whilst attending
the sick. B40 lists obituary booklet - funds to Mount Carmel School
Salford. Brother of Fr James Conway.
CONWAY JAMES
Born 1828
Ordained 1851
Died 1868
Born Kilmore, Ireland.
Initial Education - Manchester.
Seminary Education - All Hallows
Place of Ordination - All Hallows. - by Bishop O'Connor.
1851-1853 St Peter and Paul, Bolton.
1853-1861 St Mary Oldham as rector
1861 St Edmund, Bolton
1861-1863 St Patrick Livesey Street Manchester
Darlinhurst Australia, (Sydney Diocese).
Brisbane, Australia (4 years
Sydney Australia to death 1868.
Notes - Curley - Condon 151 - in Oldham. Endured three incidents
- clash of religious processions, being fined for "assaulting"
a school-teacher, local riots. Resigned from Oldham in August 1861
- see letter in "Oldham Standard".
Brother of Francis (B40)
COOKE JOHN BROMLEY
Born 25 June 1859
Ordained 28 July 1889
Died 7 August 1913
Monsignor Cooke was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, and was educated
at Salford Catholic Grammar School and Ushaw, where he served as a minor
professor as Ushaw for three years before ordination, being ordained
in 1889 at Salford Cathedral by Bishop Vaughan. He was placed on the staff
of the Salford Catholic Grammar School 1889-1891 initially as a classics
teacher, and then as rector in place of Monsignor de Clerc. With the amalgamation
of St Bede's College and the Grammar School, he was appointed Vice
Rector and Prefect of Studies 1891-1894. In poor health and after two
operations, he took sick leave and went to Devonshire. On his return he
was appointed assistant to Canon Morrissey at St Mary, Burnley 1896-1897,
before going as rector to St Mary, Oldham, 1897-1902. He was then made
Administrator of the Cathedral 1903-1905, and was deputed by the Chapter
to go to Torquay to attend Bishop Bilsborrow, who was in his final illness.
Returning to the Cathedral post, Fr Cooke was sent to succeed Canon Corbishley
at St Mary, Burnley, 1905-1913. He was made a Monsignor by Pope Pius X
in 1904. Increasing ill health led to his retirement from Burnley, and
after some time in Harrogate, he went to his sister's house in Victoria
Park, where he died. After his Requiem he was buried on 9 August. He served
as Dean at both the Cathedral and at Burnley. He was also the uncle of
Monsignor John Cooke, M.A.
Sources: Obituary 1914 Almanac; PV1 297; Durkin, Curley.
COOP PETER M.A.
Born 1809
Ordained 23 September 1837
Died 27 December 1868
Educated at Rome. Ordained Sub-deacon at Ware 24 September 1836,
and deacon 25 December 1836, before receiving priesthood 23 September
1837. While professor at Ware, he served Shefford Bedfordshire until appointed
there 1 July 1839. He left Great Marlow when the Redemptorists took over
that mission and was granted an Exeat. He wrote "Reply of Rev. P.
Coop, M.A., Catholic priest of Shefford, Beds, to the Sermon and Appendix
of Rev. G. McClean, M.A., of Bedford entitled 'Christian Freedom and Popish
Bondage'" London 1841.
1839 St Edmund's Collage, Ware March Professor
1839 Shefford, Bedfordshire
1844-1848 Great Marlow, Bucks. (New mission).
1850 St Mary's, Oldham, assisting Fr Hogan.
1850 Burton Park, Sussex (?)
1868 Ormskirk (died)
CORBISHLEY JOSEPH
Born
Ordained
Died 1905
CORBISHLEY ROBERT
Born 25 August 1844
Ordained 24 October 1869
Died 5 March 1914
Fr Corbishley was born in London in 1844, and was eldest of three brother
priests: Canon Thomas Corbishley who died in Burnley in 1905, and Monsignor
Joseph Corbishley, President of Ushaw College, who died in Weymouth in
1910. Fr Corbishley was educated at Ushaw and the English College,
Bruges, in which town he was ordained in 1869. After a spell at Salford
Cathedral, he was sent as assistant to canon Toole at St Wilfrid, Hulme,
1869-1874, when he was appointed chaplain to Salford Goal and Strangeways
Prison, 1874-1908. He had served on the Ecclesiastical Education Council
and on the Cemetery Board. After 34 years as prison chaplain, he retired
to Southport where he died after a long illness. He was buried at Moston
Cemetery 9 March 1914. Two nephews became priests; Fr Ernest Corbishley
of Southwark diocese, and Fr Charles Corbishley of the Salford diocese.
Sources: Obituary 1915 Almanac; PV1.84. His PV claims he began serving
as prison chaplain in 1870 when the Almanac listed Fr Seth Clarkson in
that post. It is possible he served as assistant before taking over
the post fully.
CORBISHLEY THOMAS
Born 8 March 1846
Ordained 15 August 1874
Died 1 January 1905
Thomas Canon Corbishley came of an old Catholic family from the
Fylde, but was himself born London. When aged twelve, he went to Ushaw.
On the conclusion of his College course, which included several years
of teaching, he was ordained by Bishop Vaughan, one of three brother priests,
and appointed to Salford Cathedral 1874-1882. In March 1882 he was placed
on the staff at St Bede's College, Manchester 1882-1884. He then moved
to the Seminary of Pastoral Theology at Salford and taught Pastoral Theology.
In April 1892 he was appointed Administrator of the Cathedral 1892-1902
and in 1893 became Canon Penitentiary in succession to Canon Liptrott.
When the Old Provost died, he moved to St Mary, Levenshulme 1902-1903.
His final posting was as Missionary rector to St Mary, Burnley, where
he died of a weak heart after pneumonia.
Sources: Obituary 1906 Almanac; PV1.113 - Some sources give DOB
as 5 March 1846; Durkin M History of St Mary's, Burnley
CORKERY JAMES
Born 1871
Ordained 1896
Died 1930
Fr Corkery came from the diocese of Cloyne in Ireland and was educated
at Carlow College. He was ordained by Bishop Bilsborrow in 1896 at the
Bishop's House, Salford. He served initially as assistant at St Edmund,
Miles Platting, Manchester, 1896-1901. After a spell of sick leave, he
returned as assistant to St Chad, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, 1902-1905.
He then went as rector to the English Martyrs, Urmston, 1905-1910 and
to Our Lady of Grace, Prestwich, 1910-1926, where he devoted to the hospital,
Nazareth House orphanage and Sedley Park Training College. His final years
were spent as rector at Mount Carmel, Blackley, 1926-1930, where he restored
the fabric of the church, and improved the schools at a cost of £10,000.
He died at Colwyn Bay from haemorrhage of the lungs.
Sources: Obituary 1931 Almanac
Query: Obit omits Chad's & disagrees with almanac dates & postings.
His name is sometimes spelt as Corkerry.
CORLESS G J A
Born 1794
Ordained
Died 1865
Born in the Fylde
Educated at Ushaw
St Mary's Osbaldeston. First resident priest
Served parfois at Crathorne, Yorks, Thropton and Cottom where he died.
COTTON CHARLES
Born 185?
Ordained 1878
Died
Listed in clergy list in 1880 Almanac but no posting given.
COULSTON JOHN
Born 7 January 1822
Ordained 9 May 1847
Died 4 June 1889
Son of John and Margaret Coulston (Walmsley), Fr Coulston was born in
Lancaster and was educated at Ushaw 1836-1847, where Bishop Riddell ordained
him. Of old Catholic stock, he was buried in Lancaster Cathedral cemetery.
There is a Coulston chapel in Lancaster Cathedral. He served as assistant
at St Augustine, Granby Row, Manchester 1847-1848 and then at St Chad,
Cheetham Hill, Manchester 1848-1849. His last post in the diocese was
at St Marie, Bury 1849-1850. He then moved to the Shrewsbury diocese,
serving as assistant at St Werburgh, Birkenhead 1850-1851, and as rector
at Wrexham 1851-1853 and at St Michael, Stockport 1853-1857. After a spell
as chaplain to the FCJ Sisters at Lingdale House 1857-1863, he was made
rector at Upton 1863-1866, at Welshpool 1866-1868, at Oswestry 1868-1871
and at Wilmslow 1871-1889, where he died. He was buried in the St Peter's
Cemetery, Lancaster.
Sources: Abbott (who says he was rector at Bury: not assistant to Fr Peacock),
CRS 20 p.126.
Query: recheck Bury
COURTNEY TIMOTHY
Born 6 January 1857
Ordained 25 June 1882
Died 1927
Born Waterville, Kerry, Ireland.
Seminary Education - Maynooth
Ordained Maynooth.
1884-1888 St Patrick, Livesey Street Manchester.
No affiliated. May have become S.J.
CRANE EDWARD
Born
Ordained 183
Died
1834-1835 Livesey Street. Assistant
CRILLY JOSEPH
Born 21 January 1844
Ordained 30 May 1878
Died 8 November 1930
Dean Joseph Crilly was born at Crievagh, Co Tyrone, in the Archdiocese
of Armagh, Ireland, in 1844 and was educated at St Patrick's College,
Armagh, being ordained at Salford Cathedral by Bishop Herbert Vaughan
in 1878 when he was 34 years old He spent one year at the Seminary of
Pastoral Theology in Salford, and another year as Prefect of Discipline
at St Bede's College, Manchester before going as assistant to St James,
Pendleton 1880-1881 He then went as rector to Our Lady, Aspull, 1881-1888.
He first help create a new mission at New Springs, and then went as founder
rector to another new mission cut off from Aspull: St Mary, Horwich, 1888-1889.
He next returned to St James, Pendleton, as rector, 1899-1930 and remained
there until his death in 1930, aged 86. There he enlarged and renovated
the schools and built in 1911 the new Boys' School. He saw the creation
of yet more new missions: St Luke, Irlams o'th' Height, and All Souls
at Weaste Hall, whose site he purchased as well as that of the De la Salle
College. He served as Rural Dean, and celebrated his Golden Jubilee in
1928
Sources: Obituary 1932 Almanac; Golden Jubilee notes Harvest 1928 p 193.
CROMBLEHOLME JOHN WILLIAM
Born 4 August 1862
Ordained 1 November 1886
Died 18 August or September 1953
Fr Crombleholme was born at Preston in Lancashire in 1862 and studied
at Ushaw and Bruges, being ordained at Salford Cathedral in 1886. He joined
the staff at St Bede's College, Manchester, 1886-1889 before serving as
assistant at St Augustine, Granby Row, Manchester, 1889-1892. He was then
made rector at St Mary, Clayton le Moors, 1892-1905. He then went as rector
to St Chad, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, 1905-1908, but returned to St Mary,
Clayton le Moor, 1923-1953. He then retired to Wilmslow and spent the
last years of his life in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he died in
September 1953. He was considered an expert on orchids.
Sources: Obituary 1954 Almanac
Query: month of death.
CROMBLEHOLME WILLIAM J
Born 28 January 1825
Ordained 27 September 1857
Died 18 January 1884
Born in Chipping, Lancashire, Fr Crombleholme was trained at Roulers and
Bruges and was ordained -at Salford Cathedral by Bishop William Turner.
After a short spell at Salford Cathedral, on 8 December 1857 he was appointed
to St Ann, Ashton under Lyne, where he had to endure the effects of both
the Cotton Famine and the Murphy Riots. Much of his work was connected
with education, for he founded schools in the mission, and at Denton,
as well as establishing an Industrial School for Boys. Twice he went to
the United States on a begging mission, the first time between 29 April
1874 and 19 November 1877. Late in 1883 he returned to the States on a
similar mission, and died at Lawrence, in Massachusetts in January 1884.
Sources: Obituary 1885 Almanac p. 48; Frondes Silvulae March 1884 Vol
1, No 20, pp. 313 seq "Life of Rev. W. Crombleholme"
CROOK EDMUND
Born 8 April 1846
Ordained 1 April 1872
Died
Born Brindle, Lancashire England.
Educated Sedgley Park
Seminary Education - Ushaw.
1872-1880 St Peter and Paul Bolton.
1880-1881 Our Lady Aspull Rector
1881-1882 St James Pendleton, Salford.
PV1.92. Bears note "died". Not in 1883 Almanac.
CROOK JAMES
Born 23 April 1792
Ordained 1818
Died 17 June 1856
Son of James and Jane (Cottam)
General Prefect 1820-1824
1824 Rochdale
1825-1842 St Chad's Manchester.
1842 St Wilfrid's Hulme.
1843-1845 St Albans Blackburn
1847 St Patrick's Liverpool
1851 St Nicholas Liverpool
Vicar General and Provost.
CROOK WILLIAM
Born 29 November 1855
Ordained 23 December 1882
Died 17 June 1886
Born in Rishton, Lancashire, Fr Crook studied at the English College,
Lisbon, and was ordained in Salford Cathedral. Appointed to All Saints,
Barton 1882-1886, he took ill and died of consumption at his mother's
home, Brindle.
Sources: Obituary 1887 Almanac p. 45; PV1.234; Croft; Croft notes
his admission to Lisbon in 1872 but gives date of death as 21 June 1886
which was in fact date of burial.
CROSKELL ROBERT
Born 1808
Ordained 1835
Died 12 December 1902
Monsignor Robert Provost Croskell was born in Liverpool and educated
at Ushaw, being ordained in 1835. He was sent as assistant priest to St
Mary, Oldham 1836-1837 and then to St Augustine, Granby Row, Manchester
1837-1842. He then became rector of the Rook Street Catholic Chapel in
Manchester, and organised the transfer of the mission to the splendid
and new church of St Chad in Cheetham Hill. He worked tirelessly among
the fever victim in 1847 in the aftermath of the potato Famine in
Ireland, and again in 1849 with the cholera victims. Manchester Corporation
officially thanked him in 1847 for his work amongst the sick. The Passionist,
Fr Gaudentius, and Provost Croskell were instrumental in helping Elizabeth
Prout establish the Holy Family Sisters, whose name was soon changed to
the Sisters of the Cross and Passion. In 1852 he returned as rector to
St Augustine, Granby Row, and remained there until 1859 when he fell dangerously
ill. On recover, he went to the new Mission formed at Stretford from Barton
but did not stay there long, moving quickly to be rector at Mount Carmel,
Blackley 1860-1867. His last mission was that of St Mary, Levenshulme
where he spent the last 35 years of his life, though for the last ten
years he lived in practical retirement. He died at Levenshulme. He had
been made a Canon when the Chapter was erected in 1852, and became Provost
but retired from the latter in 1897, two years after his Diamond Jubilee.
He contributed a series of articles in "The Harvest" on Catholicity
in Manchester, reprinted in 1998 by the NWCHS. Ordained a priest for the
Northern District in the early part of the nineteenth century, he saw
duty in the Lancashire District, and served the Salford Diocese till the
early years of the twentieth century, a truly remarkable life span.
Sources: Brief obit mention in 1903 Almanac; full obituary in 1904 Almanac;
See also Sr Dominic Savio Elizabeth Prout passim.
CROSKELL THOMAS
Born 21 December 1845
Ordained 1 November 1872
Died 24 December 1913
Monsignor Croskell was born in Lancaster in 1845 and studied at
Sedgley Park and Ushaw, where he took the London B.A. degree. He was ordained
in 1872 at Salford by Bishop Vaughan. He served on the Cathedral staff
1872-1875, before being sent as assistant to St Augustine, Granby Row,
Manchester, 1875-1876, and St Wilfrid, Hulme, 1876-1880. He was then made
rector at St Edward, Rusholme, where he remained until his death on
Christmas Eve, 1913. For 19 years he was Secretary to the Lancashire Infirm
Clergy Fund. A scholar, he contributed articles to the Dublin Review and
other periodicals. After Requiem Mass he was buried at Moston Cemetery
28 December 1913. He was not the brother of Provost Croskell.
Sources: Obituary 1915 Almanac; PV1 100; Records and Recollections of
Ushaw p271.
CURR JOSEPH
Born
Ordained
Died 29 June 1847
Born in Sheffield
Educated at Douai and Ushaw.
1816 Mulberry Street. Assistant
1820 St Augustine's Manchester.
Ashton in the Willows.
La Trappe Monastery in France.
Boarded at Ushaw.
Callaby Castle. Chaplain
1839 St Albans and succeeded Fr Sharples Assistant & Parish
Priest
1843 Became a Bishop and moved to Whitby.
1846 Sheffield
1847 Volunteered to replace typhus priests in Leeds.
CURTIS F
Born
Ordained
Died
-
Founded mission of St Mary, Osbaldeston as offshoot from Salmesbury. Church
opened 25 October 1836. Fr Curtis was not resident.
CUSACK TIMOTHY
Born 31 March 1868
Ordained 1893
Died 6 January 1932
Fr Cusack was born at Ballindesart in Ireland and was educated at St John's College,
Waterford and was ordained at Waterford Cathedral in 1893. He served on the Cathedral
staff 1893-1895; was assistant at St Patrick, Livesey Street, Manchester 1895-1898. He
then went as rector to St Aidan and Oswald, Royton, where he remained until his death in
1932.
Sources: Obituary 1933 Almanac
CUSACK THOMAS
Born 1857
Ordained 1881
Died 13 June 1904
Fr Cusack was born in Ballyjamesduff, Co Cavan, Ireland, the eldest of thirteen children,
of whom four became priests and one a nun. He was educated at Carlow College and Ushaw,
being ordained for the Salford diocese by the Bishop of Liverpool at Salford cathedral in
1881. He was sent as assistant to St James, Pendleton 1881-1883. Ill health
necessitated a year's sick leave. He returned to serve as chaplain to the Little Sisters
of the Poor at Plymouth Grove, Manchester and was then sent as rector to St Alban,
Ancoats, Manchester. He moved to St Joseph, Shaw, where he built the presbytery, and then
to St Anne, Greenacres, Oldham. He was an active member of the Oldham School Board. His
next posting was as rector at St Patrick, Rochdale. Ill health again intervened and he
retired on sick leave for some eighteen months. After recuperation, he was sent to St
Mary, Levenshulme but fell ill again after a few months, and died the day after an
operation.
Sources: Obituary 1905 Almanac; Obituary Harvest July 1904.
CUSACK TIMOTHY
Born 31 March 1868
Ordained 1893
Died 6 January 1932
Born Ballindesart, Ireland.
Seminary Education - St John's College, Waterford
Ordained - Waterford Cathedral.
1893-1895 Salford Cathedral.
1895-1898 St Patrick Livesey Street Manchester.
1898-1932 St Aidan and Oswald Royton.
Not ordained for Salford Diocese. Initially on loan but affiliated to Diocese 8 July
1901. Obituary Almanac 1933.
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