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From: "Spencer Allen" <>
Subject: [BAN] Roman Catholic Registers
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:14:19 +0100

Hi list,
This is from one of the books Banbury Historical Society
published (volume 16)

In the eighteenth century Roman Catholics from Banbury
worshipped at Warkworth Castle, the home of the Recusant
Francis Eyre & his predecessors. On the demolition of the
Castle in 1806 a chapel was built in the hamlet of Overthorpe;
and eventually, in 1835/8, St. John's church in South Bar, Banbury
was erected.
No register as such survives, but the relevant entries in the journal
of the Priest, the Revd. P.J. Hersent, were extracted by the Revd.
C.I. Bowen in 1876. These cover the period 1771 - 1832.
(Father Hersent died in 1833)

The original journal & Father Bowen's transcript are now in the
Roman Catholic Birmingham Diocesan Record Office

In BHS volume 22 it also says that the journal has since been
retranscribed. Copies of this transcript can be found at
Oxfordshire Archives & the Society of Genealogists

Angela

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