A guide to Churches and Graveyards in Surrey for family historians
Historical notes on English Catholic missions, Kelly, Bernard W. (Rev), 1907:
This mission is famous as being one of the first to be started without the aid or patronage of any of the foreign ambassadors. In May 1773 Fr. Gerard Shaw gave Bishop Talbot, coadjutor of Bishop Challoner, £500—afterwards increased to £700—to found a mission at Bermondsey. He likewise presented a silver chalice for use in the chapel. In the Latin document concerning these bequests is a clause requiring one of the chaplains at Bermondsey to be able to speak both Irish and English. The church was destroyed by bombing in 1954 and rebuilt ca. 1958. There is no graveyard at Most Holy Trinity Church. We know of only three Roman Catholic cemeteries in the London area, St. Mary's in Kensal Green, St. Patrick's in Leytonstone, and St. Mary Magdalene in Mortlake. Many local cemeteries may have Roman Catholic sections see https://www.southwark.gov.uk/births-deaths-marriage-civil-partnership-and-citizenship/deaths-funerals-and-cremations/cemeteries-and-crematorium The Roman Catholic church of The Most Holy Trinity is located in the Anglican ecclesiastical parishan ecclesiastical parish is an administrative area within the Church of England or Roman Catholic church. It is distinct from the civil parish, a local government unit in England of Bermondsey St James with Christ Church and St. Crispin. Bermondsey The Most Holy Trinity WSFHS CD18 (Metropolitan Surrey Burials Index) has burial records for The Most Holy Trinity, Bermondsey from 1840 to 1854 See our sales page for more information (opens in a new page). Bermondsey St. James West Surrey Family History Society CD29(A 2nd Collection of Metropolitan Surrey Burials Index) has burial records for Bermondsey St. James from 1829 to 1854 and 1862 to 1879. See the Society's sales page for more information (opens in a new page). Bermondsey is in the London Borough of Southwark.
Unless otherwise stated the dates for the creation of parishes are taken from Youngs, Frederick. A. Guide to the Administrative Units of England; Royal Historical Society: London, 1979 volume 1 Southern England.
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