A guide to Churches and Graveyards in Surrey for family historians
Historical notes on English Catholic missions, Kelly, Bernard W. (Rev), 1907:
This mission originated in 1847, when Fr. Robert Hodgson hired an old coach-house and said Mass there for the benefit of the poor Catholics of the place. Such crowds flocked there on Sundays, that Fr. Hodgson had to rent from Guy's Hospital an old dissecting room in Webb Street, Borough. After clearing away "nearly two cartloads of human bones" and dislodging legions of rats, Fr. Hodgson turned the upper portion of the building into a chapel and the lower part into a school. There is no graveyard at the Church of Our Lady of La Sallette and St. Joseph. 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 area is variously known as "Borough" or "Bermondsey". The Roman Catholic church of Our Lady of La Sallette and St. Joseph 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 Southwark St. Saviour with All Hallows The Catholic church of Our Lady of La Sallette and St. Joseph 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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