The main meeting of each year is the Day Conference with AGM. The date this year is Saturday, 25 October 2008 and it is to be held at Our Lady of Victories, Kensington High Street, London, W8 6SA . The nearest Underground station is High Street Kensington on the Circle and District lines . A map of the area can be found  here.

This year we have two speakers:

Father Stewart Foster (Brentwood Diocesan Archivist), The Petre Archive in the Essex Records Office

Rebecca Probert (Associate Professor, University of Warwick), Anglican Registers and Catholic Research

Cost of attending the day conference: #20. (Includes buffet lunch and morning and afternoon refreshments)
Please send a cheque (made payable to Catholic FHS), together with an SAE, to

Mrs Barbara Murray
2 Winscombe Crescent
Ealing
London W5 1AZ

Meetings at two-monthly intervals, usually on Saturday.
All meetings start at 2.00pm. Tea and biscuits provided. Visitors welcome. Maps and travelling directions available from the Meetings Organiser. Please phone or write enclosing an sae to Maureen Fitzgibbon, Pinewood, Hawley Lane, Halebarns, Altrincham, Cheshire WA15 0DY. Tel: 0161 903 9567.

Meetings on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7.15pm at the Roman Catholic Church Hall, Snows Green Road, Shotley Bridge, Co. Durham.

Journal contents can be found here.

Back issues of journals and Occasional Publications are available from -

Mrs Skelton
22 Cawston Way,
Bilton,
Rugby,
Warwickshire,
CV22 7NR

Please enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope (A5 size).
Back numbers of the journal are priced at £2.00 each inc p+p.

Please make cheques payable to Catholic Family History Society.
Non-UK:  Please send equivalent sum in own currency if more convenient.

Catholic Missions and Registers to 1880

Bibliographies for Catholic Family History;

Kelly's English Catholic Missions

The above basic works are available from Michael Gandy, but please note that these are not CFHS publications.

Michael Gandy
140 Hampden Way
Southgate
London   N14 5AX

Please send s.a.e. for details.

This is a very good resource. The Catholic Familiy History Society has deposited many transcripts of Mission Registers there. Click here for a list of them. The Library is at St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough.

The Society has bought the microfiches for all counties in England and Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. We are happy to search for any member's ancestors, Catholic or not. Please send details such as full name, age in 1881, occupation and the counties you want searched. Write the details for each search at the top of a separate sheet of paper, which will be used for the reply, and send with sae and a cheque for £5.00 per surname, made payable to

Catholic FHS
Margaret Butler
6 Wynderoft Close
Enfield
Middlesex EN2 7BJ
England

This is an index of approximately 14,000 nuns who were in the English Province of their Order. It is arranged alphabetically by the surname of each nun and usually gives date of birth, names of parents, religious name, dates of profession, date and place of death and name of Order. Request as for the census index above; there is no charge for this.

The index so far contains the names of about 23,000 people mentioned in about 1800 wills of Lancashire Catholics. For an extract of the entries of any surname write to Margaret Butler as for the census index above; there is no charge for this.

It is hoped that these will again be on open access at the Catholic Central Library when it has re-opened at Farnborough. The library and our collection are free, but we would appreciate a donation to Catholic Central Library for giving us this help. The library has most of the other classic works for post-Reformation Catholic history in England, Scotland and Wales.

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The current subscription rate is £10.00 per year, with an extra £1.00 for each additional member at the same address (one copy of the Journal). The subscription for overseas members is £14.00 per year (please pay in Sterling cheque or International Money Order).

The subscription years starts on the 1st January. New members joining during one year receive all the issues of the Journal for that year, so should renew their subscription the following 1st January.

Membership of the Society entitles you to attend any of the meetings organised by the Catholic FHS (though a small entrance fee is usually charged), receive copies of 'Catholic Ancestor', have your research interests listed and generally join in the activities of the Society. Membership forms are available from the Membership Secretary or by using the link below:

Mrs KM Black
14 Sydney Road
Ilford
Essex
IG6 2ED

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