WADE PATRICK

Born
Ordained	1877
Died

WAGSTAFF JAMES

Born	1762
Ordained	20.12.1788
Died	3.5.1847

Son of Charles and Sarah (Denton) of Manchester. Born in Manchester and baptised on 18.7.1762. Educated at Sedgley Park, Douai and Lisbon where he was ordained. Believed that he was the first entry in the second baptism register of St Chad’s (Fr Broomhead) which register has disappeared (Jim Lancaster 11/1997)

1790	Left for the Missions.
1792-1805	Chaplain to the De Trafford family at Croston Hall.
1805-1844	Stydd Lodge, Ribchester.
	Retired to Lytham where he died.

WAINWRIGHT GEORGE

Born	23.1.1883
Ordained	24.12.1916
Died	17.9.1959

Born in Manchester. Educated at St Bede’s Manchester and then at the old seminary of St Joseph’s Leeds. Ordained in the English Martyrs Church Manchester.

1916	Assistant St Mary’s Bolton.
1922	Procurator St Bede’s College.
1926	Assistant Sacred Heart Darwen.
1932	Parish Priest SS Aidan and Oswald Royton.
1948	Retired.

WALKER JAMES

Born
Ordained
Died

Jesuit of this name at Stonyhurst 1851-1860.

WALKER THOMAS

Born
Ordained
Died

WALLS FRANCIS

Born
Ordained	1941
Died

WALMSLEY HENRY

Born
Ordained
Died	1847

Fr Walmsley died in Leeds epidemic.

1832 - 1835	St John’s Rochdale and St Marie’s Bury and assisted Fr Turpin in Oldham.

WALMSLEY JOHN ( Canon)

Born
Ordained
Died	17.11.1868

WALMSLEY JOSEPH

Born
Ordained	1
Died

WALMSLEY ROBERT

Born	10.3.1871
Ordained	7.3.1903
Died	7.4.1931

Born in Preston. Educated Christian Brothers . Left Leeds Seminary 21.3.1903 to St Mary’s Oldham. He spent himself for his parish and left it a model one. Heart failure developed during his last years at Billington no doubt accentuated by his zealous over anxiety and he found it necessary to retire to Fairhavan. After a short time his retirement resolved itself into a long and weary bedridden struggle with heart failure. Those who had the privilege of knowing him intimately appreciated his retiring disposition and rejoiced in the staunchness of his friendship. Such men are rare because they are often unknown. Such was Fr Walmsley.

1903-1917	Administrator St Patrick’s Bolton while Fr Woods was Forces Chaplain.
1917	Curate at Haslingden, moved to Billington as Administrator.
1917-1930	First resident Priest St Mary’s Billington. Previously the parish had been supplied by the S J from Stoneyhurst.
	Retired due to ill health.

WALSH HENRY

Born	1875
Ordained	1900
Died	1926

Born in Blackburn. Educated in St Ann’s Prefect of Discipline at Ushaw College. Taken ill at the wheel of his motor car and died within two hours. He was always cheerful, always good company, always ready with a joke. Every year, he organised a summer camp at Blackpool and led eighty or more lads to a pleasant holiday. The peculiarity of his work was its efficiency and quietness. For many years, he was one of the Diocesan School Inspectors.

1902-1910	Curate
1910-1926	Rector at Reddish.

WALSH JAMES

Born
Ordained
Died

1895	Assistant at St Joseph’s Salford
1897	Assistant St Annes Ancoats.
1898	Assistant Royton.

WALSH JOHN A

Born
Ordained	1969
Died

WALSH JOHN T

Born
Ordained	1960
Died

WALSH JOSEPH T

Born
Ordained	1931
Died	14.12.1945

Ordained at Upholland.

1943-1945	Assistant at St Chad’s

WALSH MARTIN

Born
Ordained
Died

1870-1871	Assistant St Albans Blackburn.

WALSH KILIAN

Born	7.7.1931
Ordained	12.6.1955
Died	14.5.1998?

Born in Tuam, County Galway, Killian was baptised at the Cathedral parish. He was educated at St Jarleth’s College, and in 1949, at All Hallows, Dublin, in whose chapel he was ordained. Ill health forced his retirement in 1993. He is buried in Droylsden cemetery.

1955-1964	St Mary, Denton Assistant
1964-1970	Our Lady, Moss Side Assistant
1970-1972	St Mary Horwich Assistant
1972-1993	St Anne, Fairfield Priest in charge, then Parish Priest
1993-1998
	Retirement

WALSH MORGAN

Born
Ordained
Died	21.4. 1976

1940	St Chad Assistant
1940-1944	Parish Priest

WALSH NORBERT

Born	1.12. 1907
Ordained	15.6.1935
Died	18.4.1996

Born in Miles Platting, Manchester. Baptised in the parish church of Corpus Christi on 8.12.1907. Educated at the elementary school of Corpus Christi and later at Freshfield College. Trained for the Priesthood at St Mary’s College, Oscott in 1929. Ordained by Bishop Thomas Henshaw in St John’s Cathedral Salford. Over many years, during his retirement in Bispham, Fr Walsh became very involved in the parish of St Bernadette’s Blackpool. Bishop Kelly concelebrated Mass at St Bernadette’s Church and Fr Walsh was buried at Moston Cemetery.

1935-1941	St Joseph, Darwen Assistant Priest
1941-1943	St Patrick, Bolton.
1943-1957	St Wilfrid, Longridge.
1957-1959	St Joseph’s Hospital, Whalley Range.
1959-1974	St Anne’s Crumpsall until his retirement in March 1974.

WALSH PATRICK FRANCIS

Born
Ordained
Died

1873-1876	St Ann, Blackburn Assistant

WALSH THOMAS

Born	7.7.1858
Ordained	1886
Died	1930

Born at Ballinaggart Tipperary, educated at the Monastery of Mt Mellary and Waterford, and ordained in Salford Cathedral 1886. He spent nearly one third of a century in the very centre of Manchester. He felt the position of his church provided an unique penitentiary - at morning noon and night he was at the disposal for the confessional and in Lent he made extra facilities in the way of a continuous mission with mid-day sermons. The Blessed Sacrament exposed or hidden was to be worshipped by tired business men and women. Never will one forget the spontaneous crowds who flocked to recite aloud the rosary of Our Blessed Lady in his church on Armistice Day. Facilities for visitors were arranged by a Sunday Mass at noon - a privilege which he deplored until he death was taken away on account of abuses. His crowning joy was the freedom from debt and solemn dedication of his historic church in May 1926. He loved his school and he was chosen by the Catholic School Managers to represent them on the Local Education Committee. In a way all his own he courted and not infrequently helped the civic authorities whom he regarded as within the purview of his parish. For many years he was the Chief Marshall of our great Whit Friday Procession. In 1917 he was made a Canon of the Cathedral Chapter. In some sense he was cosmopolitan - the resident population is comparatively small, the parish was augmented by business people callers of all classes, hotel visitors and at one time he counted the patients of the old Royal Infirmary in his flock.

1886-1891 St Edmund, Miles Platting Assistant 1891-1897	St John, Rochdale.
1898	St Mary, Manchester Parish Priest

WALSH WILLIAM MICHAEL J

Born	26.10.1931
Ordained	12.6.1955
Died	7.12.1995

Born in Duagh, County Kerry Baptised at St Brigid’s Church Duagh. Educated St Michael’s College Listowel and St Brendan’s Seminary Killarney. Trained for the Priesthood at All Hallows College, Dublin in 1949, and ordained in the College Chapel. Bishop Kelly offered the Funeral Mass and he was buried in Ireland.

1955-1956	Assistant Priest St Bernard’s Burnage.
1956-1960	Our Lady of the Assumption Langley.
1960	Transferred to the Catholic Missionary Society London.
1967	Assistant Priest St Edmund’s Little Hulton.
1968	Full time Chaplain to Blackburn Catholic Youth Centre.
1975	Parish Priest Holy Souls Wilpshire.

WALSHE DAVID JOHN

Born	26.2.1858
Ordained	16.7.1881
Died	11.11.1906

Born at Park in Waterford Ireland. Trained at the Waterford Seminary and at Salford before his ordination by Bishop Kelly of Liverpool. Had one sister a nun and three brothers priests, one being VG in the Diocese of Bathers Australia. He was Religious Inspector of the Diocese for 14 years.

1881-1885	Assistant at the Cathedral.
1885-1889	St Albans Blackburn.
1889-1898	Prestwich as Chaplain to the Hospital. Found a new mission in the town.
1898-1906	Rural Dean and Missionary Rector St Marie’s Bury.

WALSHE THOMAS

Born	3.10 1851
Ordained	10.9.1876
Died	1901

Born at Claremorris Co Mayo Ireland. Educated at the Diocesan Seminary, the Irish College Paris and Louvain University. Ordained at Salford Cathedral. His brother Martin lived with him - he was a Drapers assistant. Fr Walshe died at St Joseph’s Bury and buried in the local cemetery.

1876-1879	Assistant St Mary’s Ashton.
1879-1888	Rector to the mission at Hollinwood.
1888-1901	Assistant to Fr Fraser at St Joseph’s Bury.
1891	Administrator and then Rector when Fr Fraser retired at St Joseph’s Bury.

WALSHE THOMAS

Born
Ordained	1887
Died

1887-1888	Assistant Mulberry Street
1888-1892	Assistant at St Edmund’s Manchester.

WALSHE THOMAS J

Born	10.10.1856
Ordained	19.9.1880
Died	7.12.1892

Born at Bally Keoghan Limerick. Died of consumption.

1880-1883	St John’s Rochdale.
1883-1889	Mount Carmel Salford.
	St Michael’s Ancoats.

WARD GERALD

Born
Ordained	St Albans, Blackburn
Died

1840	Livesey Street
1841-1843	St Albans Blackburn.
1843-1850	Runcord.
1845	Tried to open Mass Centre in Darwen.

WARD JOHN

Born	1816
Ordained
Died	26.12.1884

1844	Assistant SS Peter and Paul Bolton.

WARD JOSEPH

Born
Ordained	1896
Died	17.4.1948

1897-1898	Assistant St Gregory’s Farnworth.
1899-1900	Assistant St Mary’s Burnley

WARD JOHN CANTWELL

Born	January 1840
Ordained	21.12.1867
Died	22.10.1889

Born in Waterford Ireland. Ordained in Waterford. Buried at Moston.

1867 - 1873	Livesey Street
1875-1889	St Patrick’s Oldham.

WARING JOHN

Born
Ordained
Died

1802-1816	Salmesbury - probably OSF (Franciscan).

WARING ROBERT

Born
Ordained	1935
Died	22.4.1974

1950	Curate Little Hulton.

WATSON MICHAEL

Born
Ordained	2.6.1972
Died	24.5.1981

Born in Padiham. Educated St John’s Padiham and St Bede’s. After several years at work, he was ordained as a late vocation. He was at one time appointed to Sacred Heart Gorton but ill health caused him to be moved almost immediately.

1972	SS Peter and Paul’s Pendleton.
1975	St Margaret Mary’s New Moston.
1977	Our Lady’s Langley.
1979	St Mary’s Denton
1980	St Teresa’s Irlam where he died.

WATERWORTH JOSEPH GERALD

Born	11 March 1936
Ordained	24 April 1976
Died	26 May 2000

Fr Waterworth was born in Bolton and baptised at St Mary’s, Bolton. He attended St William’s Primary School and St Peter & Paul’s Secondary Modern School. He was accepted as a late vocation by the Diocese of Brentwood and began his priestly training at Campion House, Osterley and at the Beda College in Rome. As a deacon he transferred to the Salford Diocese and was ordained at Salford Cathedral by Bishop Burke. He served as assistant priest at St Anne, Crumpsall August 1976 to 1900, at at St Anne, Fairfield, September 1990 to 1991. He was made parish priest at St Vincent, Openshaw September 1991-1995, and became parish priest at St Robert, Longsight, September 1995 to his death, at Manchester Royal Infirmary after a short illness. His body was received into St Robert’s Church on 1 June, and after a Requiem Mass, he was buried at Moston Cemetert 2 June 2000. He had an interest in railways, and in his spare time, he was a train guard on the East Lancashire Railway at Bury for several years

WATTERSON PATRICK; CANON

Born	10.1.1906
Ordained	14.6. 1930
Died	1993

Born in Bootle, Liverpool Baptised at St James Bootle on 14.1.1906. Confirmed at St Augustine’s Manchester by Bishop Casartelli on 1.10.1916. Educated at Chorlton Convent School and St Augustine’s Elementary School. Accepted as a student for the Salford Diocese on 24.7.1918. Entered St Bede’s College. Transferred to the English College, Valladolid in September 1923. Ordained at St Alban’s College, Valladolid by Rt Rev Thomas Dunn D.D. Bishop of Nottingham. Fr Watterston became Canon in June 1980. He spent his last years in the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Plymouth Grove, Manchester

1930-1938	Assistant St John the Baptist Rochdale.
1938	SS Aidan and Oswald Royton.
1938-1941	St Mary Magdalene Burnley.
1941-1946	Chaplain to the Forces. 1949-1960 Administrator at St Vincent’s Spotland.
1960-1961	St Edmund’s Little Hulton.
1961-1984	Parish Priest St Mary’s Oswaldtwistle.

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WATTS WILLIAM

Born	13.5.1876
Ordained	24.8.1902
Died	13.9.1956

Born in Bolton. Educated for the priesthood at the Old Salford Catholic Grammar School and St Bede’s College, Manchester. Completed his studies at the English College, Valladolid. Ordained priest in the College.

1902-1904	Assistant St Joseph’s Bolton.
1904	Assistant St Mary’s Blackburn.
1909	Assistant St Mary’s Eccles.
1916	Chaplain to the Old Salford Union Hospital.
1918	Parish Priest St Robert’s Longsight.
1928	Chaplain Buckley Hall Rochdale.
1933	Parish Priest Christ the King, Burnley.
1935	Parish Priest St Wilfrid’s Longridge where he remained until his death.

WEARDEN FRANCIS GERARD

Born	11.9.1933
Ordained	16.6.1957
Died	25.11.1998

Francis Gerard Wearden was born in Preston on 11 September 1933 and was baptised at St Anne’s, Blackburn. He was educated at St Mary’s School, Radcliffe and at Thornleigh College, Bolton before entering Upholland College in 1951. He was ordained by Bishop Beck at Radcliffe on 16 June 1957. He served as Rural Dean in St Cuthbert’s Deanery, Blackburn in 1980-1981. Deteriorating health led to his death on 25 November 1998. After Requiem Mass on Thursday 3 December 1998 he was buried in Ramsbottom Cemetery.

1957-1964	St Ambrose, West Didsbury Assistant priest
1964-1966	St Luke’s, Irlams o’th’ Height Assistant priest
1966-1968	St Alban, Blackburn Assistant priest
1968-1975	St Joseph, Ramsbottom Assistant priest
1975-1980	St George, Nelson Parish priest
1980-1981	St Peter, Mill Hill, Blackburn Parish priest and Rural Dean
1981-1988	Sacred Heart, Colne Parish priest
1988-1989	Sabatical year
1989-1998	St Joseph, Ramsbottom Parish priest

WEARDEN HERBERT J

Born
Ordained	1920
Died	22.11.1940

Sometime at Salmesbury.


WEARDEN ROGER

Born	22.8.1888
Ordained	2.8.1914
Died	15.6.1955

Born at Newton Alston in the Diocese of Liverpool. Studied first at St Bede’s College and then St Cuthbert’s Ushaw. Ordained at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Colne. He had for some years suffered from indifferent health and he died suddenly at Great Harwood.

1914	Assistant St Patrick’s Manchester.
1928	Second Parish Priest of the recently established parish of St Kentigern in Fallowfield.
1937	St Joseph’s Bury.
1947	Parish Priest St Hubert’s Great Harwood.

WEATHERALL ALFRED S

Born
Ordained
Died

A convert. Sometime at St Mary’s Swinton.


WEATHERS JOSEPH

Born
Ordained
Died

1840-1841	Barton.

WEBSTER GERARD

Born
Ordained	16.6.1940
Died	21.5.1946

1940	St John’s Padiham.
1941	Royton.

WELCH JOHN J

Born
Ordained
Died	29.9.1882

WELCH JOHN JAMES

Born	1859
Ordained	1.2.1885
Died

Educated at Ushaw between 1879-1884 Diaconate 26.10.1884 Eccles Catholic History records presentation to him on October 23rd before he left for Canada on sick leave. He wrote a series of articles for the Harvest in 1897. The Harvest claims he was at Douai, Ushaw Salford and Great Harwood.

1885	S.P.T
1886-1891	Cathedral.
1892-1895	All Saints Barton.
1895	Left the U.K. for Canada on medical advice.
1896-1897	Calgary N W T
1898-1899	East Kootenay B.C.
1900	Visited Ehy. Canadian Diocese is New Westminster.
1900-1903	Rossland Kootenay ..
1903	Left Mission of Rossland B.C for own Noviciate at New Westminster.

There is no entry for him in the 1904 Almanac nor does he figure in any Diocesan Obit List as far as 1924. Was he incardinated in Canada or died.


WELCH JOHN JOSEPH

Born	1864
Ordained	22.4.1889
Died	29.9.1943

1890-1892	Assistant St Mary’s Swinton
1903-1894	Assistant SS Peter and Paul Bolton.
1894-1897	Rector St Mary’s Denton.
1897-1907	Rector Our Lady’s Aspinall
1907 - 1909	Rector Guardian Angels, Elton.
1909-1943	Mount Carmel Salford.

WELLS J WM

Born
Ordained
Died	14.7.1986

Parish Priest Ribchester.
Retired late spring 1986.
Died suddenly on holiday in the Lake District.


WELSH T

Born
Ordained
Died

1876	Livesey Street

WESTHEAD JOSEPH

Born
Ordained
Died

1841-1843	Barton.

WESTON ANTHONY;CANON

Born	13.5.1897
Ordained	7.3.1925
Died	4.7.1977

Entered Oscott 20.3.1920.

1942-1977	St Osmund’s Breighmet Bolton.

WETHERELL ALFRED S

Born	15.10.1881
Ordained	25.7. 1910
Died	26.5.1941

Convert at Christmas 1903. 18 months at St Bede’s 20 months at Val. Entered LDS 6.10.1908 Left 25.7.1910 Sub 30.11.1909 Diaconate 19.6.1910 Born in London.

1910	Rawtenstall.

WHARRY THOMAS

Born
Ordained	1936
Died	30.12.1978

1949	Curate St Edmund’s Little Hulton.
1978	St Vincent’s Openshaw.

Died whilst driving on Mancunian Way of a heart attack.


WHELAN THOMAS VINCENT

Born
Ordained
Died	8.11.1987

Had a great passion for cricket and made sure an artificial wicket was provided in the village school yard so teams could play in all weathers. Before entering the priesthood he was a youth worker in Blackburn. Died at the Presbytery Chipping whilst preparing for Sunday Mass. Buried in the Parish Cemetery.

	Parish Priest Chipping
	Parish Priest Boniface
	Religious Adviser to Granada Television.

WHITE ALFRED; S.J.

Born
Ordained
Died

Jesuit, Stoneyhurst 1860.


WHITE JOHN JOSEPH

Born	1850
Ordained	14.6.1876
Died	1915

Born Newtown Shandman, Co Cork. Educated at Carlow. Lent to Diocese.

	To St Mary’s Oldham.
	First Rector at Greenacres.
1883	recalled to own Diocese and made Curate at Ballyhead, Diocese of Cloyne, then to Castleyons.

WHITE PATRICK J

Born
Ordained
Died	28.1.1971

1923	OLG Prestwich as Curate.
1924-1925	Assistant at St Chads.
1939	St Gabriels Castletown.
1924-1925

WHITTAKER J FIELDING

Born
Ordained
Died

1839-1842	St Augustines.
1843-1847	St Wilfrid’s Hulme.
	Resigned 1847 when debt could not be paid.
	To Liverpool where he died of fever. Memorial in St Wilfrid’s Cemetery to him.

WHITTAKER THOMAS

Born	1888
Ordained	26 July 1914
Died	6 December 1918

Born in Accrington, Fr Whittaker was educated at St Bedes Manchester and at Ushaw College. He was ordained at Stonyhurst on 26 July 1914 by Bishop Casartelli. He served as assistant priest at St Ann, Stretford and then at Mount Carmel, Blackley. He next served as Forces Chaplain, serving on the Italian front. Weakened in health, he returned as assistant priest at St Ann, Greenacres, Oldham, where within a few weeks, on 6 December 1918 he died of influenza caught attending victims of the epidemic.
Sources:

Obituary Harvest January 1919 p.9.


WHYTE EDWARD

Born
Ordained
Died

WEIRZ CHARLES

Born
Ordained
Died	19.7.1927

1897	Assistant at Aspall,
1898-1900	Assistant St James Pendleton
1910	Rector St Joseph’s Longsight.
	St Vincent’s Openshaw.

WIGMAN JOHN WM; CANON

Born	23.4. 1852
Ordained	9.9.1877
Died	30.7.1917

Dutch Born at Wehl, Utrecht, Holland. Educated Kuilenberg and Rysenburg Seminaries. Ordained in the Cathedral by Bishop Vaughan. Died of a heart attack as he prepared to say mass.

1877-1881	St Mary’s Bury
1881-1883	St Anns Ancoats
1882-1917	St Peters Middleton.

WIGMORE STEPHEN; DD

Born
Ordained
Died

WILCOCK CHARLES

Born
Ordained
Died

1893-1895	Blackburn
1896-1897	Notre Dame Convent Manchester.
1898	Unattached.

WILCOX ANTHONY

Born	2 August 1891
Ordained	26 June 1918
Died	26 November 1918

Born at Birkdale, Fr Wilcox lived as a boy in Chorlton cum Hardy, Manchester, and attended St Bede’s College 1902-1910. He was then sent to Ushaw 1910-1914, and then in September to the English College, Valladolid, 1912-1918. He was ordained on 26 June 1918 by Bishop John S. Vaughan at his own parish of St Augustine’ Chorlton cum Hardy. (The dedication of the parish was later changed to that of St John to avoid confusion with the older parish of St Augustine, Chorlton on Medlock.) He was sent as assistant priest to St Edmund, Miles Platting. Five months later he died at the age of 27 of pneumonia caught whilst attending the sick. His requiem was on 22 November. Sources: Obituary Harvest January 1919 p.8; Almanac 1920.


WILDING JAMES

Born	1820
Ordained	19.12.1846
Died	1.4 1883.

Born at Yealand, Lancashire. Ordained at St John’s Salford. He served as Diocesan Secretary for Peter’s Pence. Was a member of the Old English Chapter. District Supervisor for the Clergy Fund. Buried at Moston Cemetery.

1846-1854	Assistant at the Cathedral.
1852	Canon Penitentiary
1854	St Augustines becoming Missionary Rector and Dean, remaining there until his death.

WILKIN CHARLES A

Born	7.11.1889
Ordained	26.7.1914
Died	7.12.1957

Born in Sheffield. Educated at St Bede’s College, Manchester, and Ushaw. Ordained at the Church of the English Martyrs Urmston.

1914-1918	Assistant priest at the Sacred Heart Church, Darwen.
1918-1919	Army Chaplain.
1919-19	Sacred Heart Church, Darwen.
1926-1928	Procurator at St Bede’s
1928	Didsbury to start the new parish of St Catherine’s.

Here he built the temporary church, the school, the new church and presbytery but only the week before the opening of the new church he died.


WILKINSON RICHARD

Born	August 1918
Ordained	1.8. 1943
Died	1994

Born in Longridge near Preston. Educated at Preston Catholic College., St Bede’s College, Manchester and Ushaw College, Durham. Ordained at St Wilfrid’s Longridge by Bishop Marshall.

1943-1948	Curate at St Mary’s Radcliffe
1948-1949	Curate at St John Bosco, Blackley
1949- 1949	Curate St Mary’s Heaton Norris.
1949- 1961	Curate St Mary’s Blackburn.
1963	Parish Priest St Mary’s Samlesbury.
1965	Parish Priest Christ the King, Newton Heath.
1982	Parish Priest St Mary’s Osbaldeston where he remained until retirement in October 1988.
	Returned to Newton Heath.
September 1993	he moved to the Alexian Brothers Nursing Home where he died.

WILLEMSE JOHN M; W.C.

Born	1849
Ordained
Died	20.1.1933

At the age of 83. Fr Willemse died at the Convent of Our Lady, Bowdon. He was one of the last of that great body of Dutch priests whom Bishop Vaughan summoned to aid this Diocese in its earlier years. To the present generation he was little known in as much as he retired from active work more than 20 years ago.

1880	Haslingden.
1883-1892	Royton.
1893-1901	St Joseph’s Todmorden.

WILLIAMS JAMES CALVIN

Born	1832
Ordained
Died	11.3.1892

Soldier Priest in India. Half scalped in the Mutiny and thus his nerves affected. To Australian Mission where after 13 years, his health gave way.

1878-1891	Chaplain at Crumpsall Work House.
	He returned home to Tralee Co Kerry where he died.

WILLIAMS THOMAS

Born
Ordained
Died	22.4.1889

A priest of this name was assistant at St Wilfrid’s Hulme, Manchester from 1863-1864. This is not the Jesuit as both priests are listed in the 1864 L.D. No ordination, however, is recorded in the Lds. for 1862-1834.


WILSON ARTHUR

Born
Ordained	6.8.1905
Died	17.2.1922

Ordained at Ushaw.


WILSON ARTHUR JOSEPH

Born	28.11.1880
Ordained	1905
Died	1922

Born in Dublin. Educated at St Bede’s Manchester and at Douai France and pursued higher studies at Ushaw. Prefect of Discipline St Bedes College. Form Master Procurator Vice Rector. During his term of service he supervised many much needed improvements in the college - renewal of the whole draining system. Erection and equipment of the new science rooms, the installation of electric light. Died in St Anthony’s Hospital North Cheam. He spent 16 years of devoted service to the College.


WILSON JOSEPH G

Born	28.2. 1917
Ordained	22.6.1941
Died	15.6.1983

Born in Bolton. Brother of Fr Thomas Wilson (qv) Educated at Bolton, Blackburn and Sheffield. Educated for the Priesthood at St Bede’s College, Manchester and the English College Lisbon Portugal. Ordained at Irlam.

1941	St Mary’s Blackburn.
1942-1951	St Thomas Higher Broughton.
1951-1957	St Ambrose Didsbury.
	St John Bosco Blackley.
1958	St Stephen’s Droylsden.
	St Joseph Salford.
1962	PP St Mary’s Haigh
1967	PP Holy Family Limeside Oldham.

WILSON THOMAS

Born
Ordained	30.5.1863
Died

Ordained by Bishop Turner in Private Chapel.


WILSON THOMAS

Born	27.9.1919
Ordained	22.7.1956
Died	10.12.1997

Born in Bolton. Brother of Joseph (qv) Baptised a t St Patrick’s His father was a Preston man with Irish Parents. His mother Irish, the sister of Canon O’Dwyer. His elementary school education was received at St Marie’s, Sheffield and St William’s, Bolton. He then went to Thornleigh College and in 1933 to St Bede’s College. In 1939 he went to Ushaw and was ordained priest by Bishop Marshall at St Teresa’s, Irlam on 22 July 1945. He became Rural Dean in Oldham in 1985, and Canon in 1987. He retired from St Patrick’s, Oldham in September 1994 to the Little Sisters at Plymouth Grove, from where he supplied until 1997 when he suffered a heart attack, and died within days at the Manchester Royal Infirmary on 10 December 1997. After a Requiem Mass at St Patrick’s, Oldham, he was buried at Moston Cemetery on 18 December 1997. 1945-1951 Assistant St Patrick’s, Oldham

1951-1956	Assistant St William’s, Bolton
1956-1961	Assistant St Brigid’s, Bradford
1961-1965	Assistant St Bernard’s, Burnage
1965-1978 PP	St Matthew’s, Winton
1978-1994	PP St Patrick’s, Oldham

WISSINK JOHN A

Born	1851
Ordained
Died	13.3.1934

Dutch, - the last of the stalwart band of Dutch Missionaries.

1878-1882	Curate at Swinton.
	SS Peter and Paul Bolton.
1888-1894	Rector St Mary’s Ashton.
1894-1934	Parish Priest St Wilfrid’s Longridge.

Under his guidance, the parish became well appointed, the church and steeple were completed and the last of his works was the enlargement of the cemetery where he lies buried.


WOITYS L

Born
Ordained
Died

1898-1900	Lithuanian/Polish Service at St Chads
1899-1900	At Notre Dame convent.

WOOD CHARLES WALTER; CANON

Born	1838
Ordained	1866
Died	28.11.1905

Born in Manchester Convert when aged 13. 1854 to Ushaw, 1862 VEC .

1866-187-	St Wilfrid’s Hulme.
1870-1873	St Mary’s Blackburn.
	Rector at Whitworth.
1874	In charge at St Bede’s College.
1876	Rector St Marys Swinton.
1892	Rector SS Peter and Paul’s Bolton.
1901	Retired to North Wales and died at Tywyn Llandudno.

WOODS EDWARD, DEAN

Born	15.4.1838
Ordained	1869
Died	1913

Native of Westweath, Kilbaggan.

1870-1874	Assistant Parish Priest at St Anns Blackburn.
1874 - 1913	Parish Priest St Anns Blackburn.

Founded Congregation of the Divine Pastor; Temperance Fighters.


WOODS OSMUND

Born	1871
Ordained	1898
Died	12.7.1943

Educated for the Priesthood at Ushaw.

1901	Assistant St Mary’s Eccles.
1913	St Patrick’s Bolton where he founded the parish at Breightmet.
1918	Entered the First World War as Chaplain.
1925-1940	Parish Priest St Hubert’s Great Harwood.

He was sometime stationed at Barton, Salmesbury, Littleborough, and St Vincent’s Openshaw. He became Canon of the Diocese. LCC diaries 28.8.1917 Received Apostolic Bull appointing O Woods Canon Theologian vice Wigman.


WOODS WILLIAM EDWARD

Born	1914
Ordained	1939
Died	1986

Born in the Deansgate area of Manchester. Educated at the elementary schools of St Mary’s Deansgate St Bede’s College Whalley Range. 1930 Accepted for the priesthood and studied at St Bede’s College, Senior Seminary in Innsbruck and the American College in Sion. Ordained by Rt Rev Victor Bialer, Bishop of Sion in Sion Cathedral, Switzerland.

1939	Curate St Brigid’s Huddersfield.
1941	St Edmund’s Bolton.
1943	St Cuthbert’s Withington.
1956	SS Peter and Paul Bolton.
1960	Asked to take charge of the new parish to be formed at Kearsley near Farnworth.
1965	Parish Priest SS Peter and Paul Bolton where he remained for 21 years until his death.

WOOKEY WILLIAM

Born	1865
Ordained	28.10.1891
Died	25.9. 1936

Born in Bristol Educated at Salford Catholic G S Valladolid and Ushaw. He was sometime Secretary to Bishop Bilsborrow, Rector at Valladolid. Administrator at the Cathedral. Diocesan M.C. Revived the Catholic Needlework Guild. Chairman of Manchester CTS.

1893-1897	Assistant St Joseph Blackburn.
1897-1901	Parish Priest St John’s Burnley.
1901-1903	St Mary’s Horwich.
1909-1912	St Augustine’s Manchester.
1912-1936	St Thomas of Canterbury Higher Broughton where he died.

Described as a man of charm and dignity. Charitable, hospitable and with a lively wit.


WOOLAGHAN JOSEPH E

Born
Ordained
Died

1875	Livesey Street
1875-1876	St Edwards Rusholme.

WORSWICK JOHN THOMAS

Born	28.9.1761
Ordained	1786.
Died	1809

Son of Thomas and Alice C Gillows of Leighton Hall. Educated at Sedgley Park and Douai. Taught Piety at Douai.

1787	Returned to England.
1789-1791	Manchester.
	Pantrop Hall Garstang.

Died at Leighton Hall aged 48. Buried in the Domestic Chapel.


WORTHY JOHN; CANON

Born	7.11.1815
Ordained	25.7.1840
Died

Born at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Son of Wm Henry and Eliz A C (Blundell) from Preston. Educated at Sedgley Park

1828 -	Ushaw.
1840-1843	Prefect General.
1843 - 45	Assistant at St Chads Manchester
1845-1849	Burnley = Townley Chaplain.
1849-1851	St Nicholas Liverpool - new church just after he moved.
1851	St Mary’s Euxton.
1856	LISCP
1860

Became a Canon in Liverpool Archdiocese.


WREN PATRICK

Born	26.8.1870
Ordained	6.8.1896
Died	1926

Born at Templeglantine in the diocese of Limerick. When he was 13 years of age, his family came over to England and settled in Blackburn. For a while he attended a Technical School with the object of becoming a Civil Engineer. At the age of twenty, he obeyed the call. Educated at Salford Catholic Grammar School where he took his place like St Ignatius before him, a grown man, amongst mere boys, to master the rudiments of Latin and Greek. At Ushaw he obtained his degree of B.A. Sent to Rome to pursue his philosophical and theological studies with high prospects of a distinguished scholastic career. Ill health compelled him to return home. Two years later, he went back to Ushaw and was ordained priest at Salford Cathedral. For a number of years, he served as Curate at St Hubert’s Great Harwood with an intermission of two years at Our Lady’s Prestwich. Returning to St Hubert’s he took a great part in the establishing and building of the new mission of St Wulstan’s. When St Wulstan’s was formally opened as a separate Mission in 1913 he became its first Rector. 1916 Rector St Boniface Lower Broughton where he built a new church and re-modelled the schools at a cost of over £6,000. 1925 Ill health forced him to the Nursing Sisters in Bristol where he died. He had a tremendous driving force of energy zeal and unfaltering will. His manner was grave and serious, stern almost, though he was blessed with a saving sense of humour and his serious air clothed him with a dignity that was wholly unconscious. His character had an inner core of such sweetness and humility that an occasional glimpse of it in movements of accidental self revelation made one feel ashamed. Children loved him and sinners leaned upon him but he was perhaps at his best in his assiduous care of the sick.


WREN PATRICK; B.A.

Born	1870
Ordained	1899
Died	23.2.1926

Ordained at Ushaw.

1899-1912	Curate at St Huberts Great Harwood.
1912-1917	First Rector of New Mission at St Wulstans.
1920-1921	St Boniface, Lower Broughton. New church opened 1921.

WRENNELL THOMAS; MGR CANON

Born	1828
Ordained	12.11.1854
Died	10.2.1904

Born in Woodampton on the Fylde. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Newsham). One of four brother priests. Mgr William Wrennell DD President of Ushaw. Canon Wrennell was at Stella Fr Joseph Wrennell was Prefect of Studies at Ushaw. Thomas studied at Ushaw. Ordained by Bishop Turner.

1854-1861	St Chads 1861-1869 Rector St Mary’s Oldham.
	Ill health caused him to retire and he became Chaplain at Blackley also Religious Inspector.
1877	Rector St Bede’s College, then newly founded and became a Canon on April 3rd 1878 and Mgr in 1880.
	Resigned as Rector when St Bede’s and the Salford Diocesan Grammar School merged in 1891 but acted as Procurator there for the next four years and spent his last nine years in retirement at St Bede’s Lodge where he Died.
1878-1891	Chaplain at Crumpsall Work House.

YATES ALFRED S

Born	1846
Ordained	12.1.1882
Died	16.1.1894

Son of John Yates, Educated at Stoneyhurst. Entered SJ 1870. Taught Maths at Stoneyhurst. Served at Bury St Edmunds Clitheroe and Accrington. Left Society in 1892 and joined the Diocese St Augustines, Withington Workhouse.


YARNITZKY HENRY; CANON

Born
Ordained	20.6. 1926
Died	31.12.1963

Ordained at St Edward’s Rusholme. Polish/Jewish background. Trained in Warsaw. There during the Polish/Russian War.

1926	Curate at Livesey Street
1937	Involved in clearing £36,000 debt at Livesey Street.
	Assistant St Joseph’s Salford. Church damaged in blitz.
1838-1842	Curate St Joseph’s
1942-1963	Parish Priest St Joseph’s

Made Canon in November 1963. Fell in Sacristy. Died in Salford Royal Infirmary of Pulmonary Embolism


YOULDEN JAMES RUBEN

Born	12.11.1869
Ordained	10.2.1893
Died	1922

Born at Camborne in Cornwall. Educated at the Seminary at Barcelona at Issendun and at the Seminaire Des Missions at Antwerp. Bishop Bilsborrow ordained him priest at the Cenacle Convent Manchester. Owing to the many years that he lived in retirement most of which were spent abroad, Fr Youlden is not so well known.

1893	Curate St Edmunds Miles Platting.
1894-1895	St Edwards Manchester.
1896-1897	Assistant St Aloysius Ardwick.
1898-1899	St Mary’s Swinton.
1899-1901	Curate Failsworth.
1910	Rector St Vincent’s Openshaw.
	Chaplain Buckley Hall Rochdale.
	Rector at Brierfield for three years.

He died at Marseilles


YOUNG JOHN

Born
Ordained
Died