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Sedgley Park School The Roman Catholic School 1763 - 1873 |
Pupils of Sedgley Park |
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" Zeal , solid and manly piety , and filial affection." W.Warner , The Feast of St. Wilfrid , 12th October 1921 Extra names & information will be added as they becomes available Below are the names of 18 boys at Betley. Not all came to Sedgley Park , but at one time they did all attend the Park. Charles Flinn
Francis Halford
James Leigh
James Potier
Charles Potier
James Edwards
William Osborn
John Baptist Slate
James Edwards , Junior.
Bryan Gormond
Edward Jones
Joseph Olivier
Thomas Pickering
Thomas West alias Harrison
James Snowdon
Hamilton Canfield
John Pullen
James Tasker. ( later Rev. Tasker of Cresswell , died 1815)
Other pupils from the early days:
John Greenway - 1763
John Halford - 1763
Joseph Hanson - 1763
John Bew - 1763
James Crosby - 1763
Roland Broomhead in 1764 ( see below)
Stephen Tempest 1765.
All became priests the above seven became priests..
Others:
Charles Timings 1765 ( in the same year as John Milner.)
John Griffiths - 1765
Thomas & William Southworth. - 1765
Joseph Hodgson ( VP of Douay) in 1766
John Eustace in 1767
Thomas Smith in 1774
John Sumner in 1774.
Samuel Rock - 1769 - Extract from "The Catholic Community in Walsall, 1720-1784" (George Every) Pub. Catholic Record Society, Recusant History Series, Vol 19 No3 page 318:
"Samuel Rock in 1767 was a bucklemaker of 41 with two sons, four daughters and three apprentices. We know from his memorial in the church of St Mary on the Mount in Walsall that he was a convert and that his wife came from a Catholic family, the Thornhills who appear in the directories of Walsall but not in the presentments. His eldest son, Samuel, born and baptised in March 1762, went to Sedgley Park School in 1769 and thence to the English Colleges of Lisbon, Portugal and Douai, near Lille in France. He returned to be priest-in-charge at Kidlington in rural Oxfordshire for fifty years from 1788 but kept in touch with his brother, Joseph, who put up the memorial to their father" John Philip Kemble -Actor. See Interesting Snippets. James Brown (1812–1881), Roman Catholic bishop of Shrewsbury, the son of James and Winifred Brown, was born on 11 January 1812 in Wolverhampton. He was educated at Sedgley Park School (1821–6) and Oscott College (1826–37), and was ordained priest by Bishop Walsh on 18 February 1837.
1788 - Thomas Hurst ( Priest) Died in Lisbon on 31 March 1855. He was the nephew of Rev. John Hurst and Rev. William Hurst.
Charles Michael Baggs (1806–1845), college head and Vicar Apostolic of the Western District, was born at Belville, in Co. Meath, Ireland, on 21 May 1806. He was the eldest son of a protestant barrister of Dublin, Charles Baggs, afterwards judge of the court of vice-admiralty in Demerara, and his wife, Eleanor, fourth daughter of John Howard Kyan, of Mount Howard and Ballymurtagh in the county of Wicklow. John Milner - Bishop. See Sedgley Park Notabilities Page.John Hawksford - Replaced Canon J.H.Souter as President of Cotton College. See Cotton College Site. Edward Quillinan (1791–1851), poet, was born on 12 August 1791 at Oporto, Portugal, the son of John Quillinan, wine merchant, and his wife, Mary, née Ryan. Both his parents were Irish and his father, of good but impoverished family, had become a prosperous wine merchant in Portugal. Married Wordsworth's daughter. Thomas Flanagan -President of Sedgley Park. See Presidents Page. Charles Meynell (1828–1882), Roman Catholic priest, was probably born at Wolverhampton. Frederick Charles Husenbeth - Historian , wrote 'History of Sedgley Park' James Wagstaffe - Priest at Ribchester 1805-44 John Thomas Worswick - Priest at Garstang 1789-91 Francis Martyn (1782–1838), Roman Catholic priest, born in Norfolk in February 1782John Worthy Canon in Liverpool Archdiocese 1849 Henry Thomas Parkinson (1852–1924), Roman Catholic priest and social scientist, was born on 30 January 1852 at Cheadle, Staffordshire, the son of Henry Parkinson, a barber, and his wife, Isabella Millward. John Billington - Priest in Manchester 1831-44 Roland Broomhead : Came to Manchester in 1778. During Fr Broomhead's stay in Manchester the number of Catholics is said to have grown from 1000 to about 40,000. Henry Weedall (1794-1804) Famed in Oscott , a Chacery is named after him.Henry Weedall was born in London 1788 and began his early studies for the priesthood at Sedgley Park, and was ordained priest at Oscott College in 1814. Daniel Lee (1798-1877) Councillor 1844-8 , Liberal Politician . Home address given as The Crescent. Business was Wright and Lee, Calico Printers, York Street, Manchester. English-born son of Irish veterinary surgeon (Howe). Helped to fund (£1,000) building of Salford Cathedral where there is a Lee Chantry. Made Knight of the Order of St Gregory in 1852. Obituary, Salford Weekly News March 23rd, 1877 gives address as Springfield House, Pendleton. Educated at Sedgley Park School, became partner in Wright and Lee in 1826. On death of Wright in 1852, business became Daniel Lee & Co. Made magistrate in 1838. John Chetwode Eustace (1762-1815) http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05626b.htm John Dalton ( 1814-1874) Canon. Irish author and translator from Spanish and German, born in 1814; died at Maddermarket, Norwich, 15 February, 1874. John Furniss ( 1809-1865). Priest at Doncaster. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06324c.htm John Joseph Whitgreave (died in childhood of Scarlet Fever at Moseley 1790 ) Henry Francis Whitgreave (died in childhood of Scarlet Fever at Sedgley 1790 ) George Oliver Priest. Born at Newington in Surrey in 1781; died at Exeter in 1861. Thomas Louis Green -Priest and controversialist; born at Stourbridge, Worcestershire, 1799; died at Newport, Shropshire, 27 Feb., 1883 . Uncle of James Plunkett.James Leggett (1851-55) . Died in 1929. Said that the only time he had butter at the Park was the day the Bishop came. James Vinn - Master. Married Dr. Bowdon's niece Ann. Joseph Hodgson (1756–1821), Roman Catholic priest, son of George Hodgson and his wife, Mary Hurd, of London, was born on 14 August 1756. Mgr. William Barry. Edward Curr - (1798–1850), politician and entrepreneur in Australia, was born on 1 July 1798 at Sheffield, England, the son of John Curr, who managed the Duke of Norforks Coal Mines. Robert Richmond - known as Sanctebob - ordained 1809. Died 1844. On the 22nd of April, 1827, Mr. Thos. Turner died at the Park of consumption. He had been a long time there as a boy and a master. William Wareing (below)- 1st Bishop of Northampton. Born in London 16 February 1791. Ordained Priest 28 September 1815. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bware.html
John Briggs - 1st Bishop of Beverley : Born 1789 Ordained 9 July 1814 . Died 4 January 1861: John Briggs was born at Barton Moss. Ordained at Ushaw. After ordination he remained as Professor of Rhetoric until 1816. He then went to Chester 1816-1832 before returning to Ushaw as its 4th President and Coadjutor to Bishop Penswick. In 1836 he became Vicar Apostolic for the Northern District, 1836-1840, residing at York. He remained in York as Vicar Apostolic of the new Yorkshire District 1840-1850, and when the Hierarchy was restored, he became Bishop Of Beverley 1850-1862. (The diocese of Beverley was split after his death into the dioceses of Leeds and Middlesborough) William Foley (1789-1843) Duckett Family: James born at Claughton, Oct. 26, 1791 educated at Sedgley Park and Oscott ordained priest in 1820 and died at Wolverhampton May 30, 1864; and Thomas of Preston whose son James corn merchant of Preston was the father of the Rev. Canon Thomas Duckett, educated at Sedgley and Oscott, ordained priest in 1855 and died at Rugeley March 5, 1906. Richard, the eldest son, had sons, Richard, auctioneer of Preston who died April 20 1886; Rev. Canon George Duckett educated at Sedgely and Oscott, ordained 1851 and spent the whole of his missionary career at Wolverhampton till his death, May 5, 1898 aged 75 and Thomas of Preston, sculptor, father of the Rev. Canon Richard Duckett D.D. now of Norwich, who went to Lisbon in 1847 and was there ordained. Philip & John de Roure Joseph Gillow (1850–1921), biographical lexicographer and genealogist, was born on 5 October 1850 at Frenchwood House, Preston, Lancashire, the son of Joseph Gillow (1801–1872), a magistrate, and his wife, Jane Haydock, née Smith (1805–1872), of Lea.
Thomas Fox ( 1847-49) : He attended Sedgley Park School from August 1847 to February 1849. After studies at Oscott he was ordained Subdeacon at Northampton in September 1851 and deacon in December 1851, before being ordained priest by Bishop Wareing at Northampton on 27 March 1852. He was sent to Wisbech, Cambridge as the first resident priest there in 1852He was made a Canon of the Northampton diocese in 1855. In 1859 he was moved to King's Lynn in Norfolk but stayed only a short time. On 10 August 1859 he resigned the Canonry and was granted an Exeat to Salford. His first appointment was as assistant to St Augustine, Granby Row, Manchester. In January 1861 he was sent as rector to St Mary, Levenshulme, and in January 1862 was moved as founder rector to the new mission of St Edward, Rusholme, where he remained for some eleven years and built the church. On 3 December 1873 Bishop Vaughan sent him as rector to St Mary, Clayton le Moor. Failing health became apparent in August 1880. Some time later he resigned his mission and retired to the Alexian Brothers Home in Newton Heath where he died in January 1881. His Requiem was held at St Mary, Failsworth, and he was buried in the clergy vault at Moston Cemetery.
James Trackson (1857 - 1941.) James was at Sedgley Park School for two years from July 1871 until June 1873, the latter being the date of the move to Cotton. Thus he was one of the last group of boys at Sedgley Park but he did not go on to Cotton. His full name was James Trackson and his home address was Bedford St. off Unthank Rd., Norwich. His father's name was James Patrick Trackson. James migrated to Australia in 1883 at the age of 26 and then lived in Brisbane, Queensland until his death in 1941. He was an electrical engineer and trained at the London Polytechnic. In Brisbane he established a firm of electrical contractors called, after he was joined in business by his brother William, Trackson Brothers. The firm was responsible for many early electrical and telephone installations in southern Queensland and also retailed electrical goods. James Trackson was a pioneer motorist and was the first private motorist in Brisbane. He owned and drove a Locomobile which he purchased in 1901. His firm also bult, as an experiment, one of the first motorcars made in Australia. He retained fond memories of his school days at Sedgley Park and named his Brisbane house, built in 1900, Sedgley Grange in memory of the school. The house was demolished some years ago but the land, about 20 acres, became a public park which is now called Sedgley Park - an accidental reversion to the old school name. Thus the name of the school has, in a sense, survived in present day Australia. Brisbane's Sedgley Park is about three miles in a direct line north-west of the city centre.Samuel Webster Allen (1844-1908) - Born in Stockport. Bishop of Shrewsbury 1897-1908. Frederick Boulton - Priest Thomas Keates - Priest John Bew - President of Oscott Edward & Claudius Lawes -" My GG Grandfather and his elder brother were pupils at the school and are both in the 1861 census, they are Edward LAWES, age 15 born Norwich and his younger brother Claudius aged 13 born Norwich. Edward became a lay brother and was known as Brother Stephen OSB, he trained at Chipping Barnet I believe. He died in 1923 at Twyford Abbey, Willesden , Middlesex. Claudius (known as Claude) trained as a solicitor and became a Notary. He lived in Croydon with his large family (eleven out of thirteen children survived into adulthood) and died there in 1920." Thanks to Quentin Fontana for this info. Also here is some info on Claudius' wife - Catherine Elizabeth English Jakeman b. 20 March 1854 Southampton St, Pentonville: m. Claudius Lawes, lived 100 Wellsley Rd: buried 8 November 1919 Queen's Rd Croydon Joseph Ward :
Joseph Ward was born and baptised on 21 August 1817 at Tixall, Staffordshire, England, the son of Anne Redwood and her husband, Joseph Ward, an estate agent and tenant farmer on the Tixall estate. Ward's very broken education included being tutored by a Roman Catholic priest and attending Sedgley Park, a notable Roman Catholic school. Ward was for a period a surveyor and estate agent at Tixall, where he married Martha Redwood on 28 April 1842; they were to have 12 children. After their marriage Joseph and Martha Ward, and members of Martha's family, emigrated to Nelson, New Zealand, on the George Fyfe , arriving on 12 December 1842. The group settled at Waimea West, where Ward engaged in farming and surveying, did some tutoring for the Redwoods, and acted as an agent for some absent landowners. 1851: Charles Mordaunt: He was described in the 1861 census as a wine merchant, still living at his parents' house. He married Annie in Sheffield in 1862. He does not appear after the 1871 census but there is the curious mention of a Chas Mordaunt, born 1837, a commercial travellor staying on the night of the census at the Brighton Hotel in Halifax. Could this be Charles? Annie at the same time was visiting her daughter Florence in Peterborough, perhaps preparing for her first grandchild. The 1901 reference to Annie "living on her own means" suggets she was certainly a widow by this time. An otherwise, at the moment, unidentified Charles died in Prestwich, Lancs, in 1899. Ref: http://www.mordaunt.me.uk/britain.html |
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