Publications

 

Members will now have received Issue No.18 of our Journal - “The Old Faith - Yr Hen Ffydd”. Published below, for information, is a list of the major articles dealt with in the series
the journal
List of Published Articles
No.1. December 1999
 
A Carmelite Interlude at Merthyr. 1864-1879
 Peter O'Dwyer O.Carm 
Unrest in Cardiff 1863
   Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. 
Catholic Evidence Guild in Llandaff Fields.
Archdiocesan Year Book 1939. 
Focus on Parish History.
	Our Lady & St, Patrick's, Maesteg.

Gerald McCormack

 
 
No.2. March 2000
Uncertain Times in Cardiff - The Early Rosminian Experience. Sean Cleary
Catholic Records in the National Library of Wales. Daniel Huws 
Catholicism in Porthcawl a Century Ago
 St. Peter's Magazine 1925. 
 
No.3. June 2000
Inaugural Seminar - Remarks and Papers.Inaugural Address Archbishop John Ward
Reclaiming the Catholic History of Wales
Rt. Hon Paul Murphy MP
The Jesuit College of St. Francis Xavier
at The Cwm.		 Madge Cusack O'Keefe
 
No.4. September 2000
William Griffith of Llanvithyan.
a Glamorgan Recusant		 Frank H. Pugh
The Holywell Connection. Paddy Nash
An Oxford Lady in Pontypool Franciscan Missions Monmouthshire 1875
 
No.5. December 2000
Seeking a Bishop: Roman Catholic Episcopacy
in Wales from Reformation to Queen Victoria.		 Dom Aidan Bellenger.
A Picturesque Crowd...
Aelred Carlyle, the Anglican Benedictines on
Caldey and their journey to Rome.		 Gerry Lewis.
A Christmas At Llandaff Long Ago St. Peter's Magazine 1927
 
No.6. March 2001
Wales and the Reformation. Fr. Michael Lewis.
First of Many: St, Mary's Catholic Church,
Monmouth.		 David A. Powell.
Letters to Bishop Brown. John H. Newman.
The Death of Queen Victoria.
 
No.7. Autumn 2001
Cardiff Grey Friars Part 1. (1924)
Fr. J. M. Cronin I.C.
All Saints, Newtown and All Saints,
Castle Grounds.		 S. Cleary
Catholic Caerleon in the 18th Century. Fr. J. M. Cronin I.C.
The Legends of Friar John of Gwent St. Peter's Magazine 1925
The Mission of Barry Dock and its origins.
 
No.8. Winter 2002
Homilies of St. Gregory. Ancient manuscript
from Llantarnam Abbey.		 Sister Marie de Montfort
The Name of Cardiff. John Hobson Matthews.
Cardiff Greyfriars Part 2 Fr. J. M. Cronin
St. David’s Cardiff - Old Parish Registers Maura Bennett.
Llanarth School. Paddy Nash.
A Forgotten Welsh Hero -Fr.John Bennett. Francis Grayson 1926
John Kemble. Patrice King
 
No.9. Autumn 2002
Churchesand Worship in Middle Ages History Day Report.
“Images of Piety” by Madeleine Gray Review- Bishop D.Mullins.
St. Teilo’s Historical Society. Sean Cleary.
Father Henry Hughes (Donald Attwater). Celia Nash.
Cardiff Grey Friars: Conclusion. Fr. J. M.Cronin.
The Ghost of Llantarnam Abbey. J. H. Canning.
 
No.10. Spring 2003
Interesting Discovery at Abergavenny
Relics of Catholic Martyr.		 J. K. Fletcher 1908
Matthew Hopkins, Witch-Finder General  
The Church in the West- The Carmarthen Mission. Alan Randall.
Early History of the Church in Wales & Monmouthshire. Extracts from Lecture by
T. Canning 1885.
Be A “History Helper” -19th Century Periodicals.
St. Winifred The Wonder Worker		  
The 1520 Group. D. Chidgey
The Irish and Crime in Victorian Cardiff Part 1. Veronica Summers
All Roads Lead to County Cork. Jane Horton.
 
No.11. Autumn 2003
Catholic History Day 2003 - The Rosminians. Report
Whitson Court and Father Oliver Vassall-Phillips.
Lillie Fennell
Missions in South Wales - The 1860s Fr. A. P. Wilson OSB
The Irish and Crime in Victorian Cardiff Part 2.
Veronica Summers.
What’s In A Name ? D. Chidgey.
Early History of the Church in Wales (2)
How the Cymry People Lived
 Extracts from Lecture by T. Canning.
St, David’s R.C. Cardiff - Baptisms 1836-1915. 1885Maura Bennett
 
No. 12 Spring 2004.  
Bishop Brown’s Shopping List A. Welby Pugin
The Strange Case of William Parry:
Double Agent ? 		Report by Sarah Stanton
Letters from Ireland 1916-1923 (Pt.1) Archive Papers
The Irish and Crime in Victorian Cardiff (Pt.3) Veronica Summers
Some Memories of Two Sisters of
St. Joseph of Annecy.		 Lillie Fennel
 
No. 13 Autumn 2004  
News and Views from Home Part 2 Sean Cleary (Editor)
Some Memories of Two Sisters
Of St. Joseph of Annecy Pt.2		 Lillie Fennell.
John Lingard - A Reliable Historian Dan Chidgey.
The Chapel of Our Lady of the
Presentation at St. David’s		 Alan Randall.
The Catholic Revival in Swansea from the researches of
No.2 The Émigré Priest and Frs.Cronin I.C. (1929) and
Maria Fitzherbert. Spencer OSB (1947
 
No. 14 Spring 2005.  
Adam of Usk and the
Papal Election of 1404.		 The Chronicle of Adam of Usk
The Catholic Revival in Swansea;
Rev. Samuel Spooner.		 The Orthodox Journal 1839
Historic Parishes:
Abergavenny.		 Rev. Thomas Regan O.S.B.
The Bute Processional Cross. Illustration.
A Taste of Lingard. Dan Chidgey
Some Memories of Two Sisters
Of St. Joseph of Annecy (conclusion)		 Lillie Fennell.
 
No.15  Autumn 2005.
This edition was devoted to memories of World War 2 in Catholic communities.
Allies – Belgian and American troops in West Wales and the Vale of Glamorgan.

Alan Randall

Dan Chidgey

Education and Evacuation:
Evacuees in North East Wakes Kathryn Byrne
Catholic Evacuees in Carmarthen Alan Randall
Wartime School and Student Days Dan Chidgey.
St. Patrick’s School, Cardiff to the Rhondda

Eileen Driscoll
Extracts from History of St. Patrick’s School
Extracts from the Log Book of Heathfield House, Cardiff.
“Go West Young Man!” John Griffin.
   
Enemy Action.
The End of an Era A Chorister
Heavy Raids on Cardiff Dan Chidgey
A Family Tragedy

Mary Moore
The Faith and the Parishes.
Swansea and Southwest Wales Alan Randall
The Introduction of  Catholic Youth Clubs Bronwen Vizard
Bridgend, Whitchurch and The Heath John Griffin
The Home Front.  
Welsh Italians or Enemy Agents? Alan Randall
Buttons, Patches, Scraps and Ingenuity Lillie Fennel
 
No. 16 Spring 2006
 
Wales and the Avignon Pope
The Western Schism Various Documents
Wales Under Owain Glyndwr – The Pennal Letter
The Heitzman Clock Lillie Fennel
The Blackfriars in Cardiff Rev.L.Thomas
“Reformation in the Old
Diocese of Llandaff”
The Catholic Revival in Swansea No.4. Fr. Spencer O.S.B
Did Medieval Priests Preach in Latin ? Iestyn Daniel and Dan Chidgey
100 Years Ago Extracts from The Tablet 1906
A Taste of Lingard Dan Chidgey
 
No. 17 Autumn 2006
 
“Daniel you are a man specially chosen” – The Homily given at Dan Chidgey’s Requiem Mass
 
The Home Pages – from the Newport Catholic Magazine 1930
 
The Trip to Harvington Hall- Lillie Fennell
 
The Llandeilo Gospels by Bronwen Vizard
 
A House where owners risked religious persecution
 
A Poem on the Mass by Ieuan ap Rhydderch of Ceredigion
 
No. 18 Spring 2007
 
Hail Glorious St. Patrick- R.G
 
St. Patrick - A profile by Barry Tobin
 
Circular to School Managers 1898
 
A Scholarly Welsh Benedictine - Very Rev. Dom. Daniel Rees
 
From the Past – Catholic Directory & Annual Register 1842
 
A Scandalous Canard
 
 Extract from Eileen Driscoll’s Memoir
 
A Welsh Bishop in Penal Times - Bishop Matthew Prichard
 

 

With the approval and co-operation of the Archdiocese, the Glamorgan Family History Society has published a most useful four booklet series indexing the Baptisms contained in the registers of St. David's Church, Cardiff 1836 - 1915. (Remember that it did not become the Cathedral until 1916.)
 

This massive undertaking has been accomplished by Maura and Richard Bennett to whom we are most grateful. Maura is a very active member of WAMCHS and is the Archdiocesan contact with the Glamorgan Record Office.
 
Indexed by surname they also contain dates, mothers' maiden names, and addresses. 4 booklets £10.00 plus p&p £1.00, they are obtainable from
GFHS Publications, Ty'r Nant, 32 Waunbant Road, Kenfig Hill, Bridgend, CF33 6DE. Cheques for £11 made out to GlamFHS.
 
Future plans include indexes to St. Peter's baptism and St. David's marriage registers.
 

 
publications
Publications: The impetus for the formation of the history society was provided by the issue of history booklets undertaken to celebrate both the Millennium and the 150th Anniversary of the Restoration of the Catholic Hierarchy in England and Wales. The first books focused on how the Catholic body - not so long ago - emerged from being an "underground church" persecuted and discriminated against to become accepted, respected and looked to for moral leadership within the general community. They cover the period from the birth of Bishop Brown in 1798 to the death of Bishop Hedley in 1915.

 

No.1. The Life and Times of Bishop Thomas Joseph Brown 1798 - 1880.
  Born in Bath while Britain was at war with Napoleon's France in the reign of George lll, he would have heard of the Battle of Trafalgar while a seven year old schoolboy. A Benedictine novice at the time of Waterloo, he became first (and only) Vicar Apostolic for Wales (1840), first Bishop of Newport (1850). He died at the age of eighty two when Queen Victoria was on the throne.


No.2. A Short History of St. David's Cathedral, Cardiff.
  The growth of the Catholic community in Cardiff is reflected in the history of St. David's Church (later the Cathedral). The story of the "mother church" of Cardiff tells of mushroom-like growth when in 1800 there were but a few Catholic families in the town but in 1861 it was estimated that there were 10,000 - one third of the population.


No.3. The Catholic Church in Cardiff - First Annual Report 1879.
  A fascinating document that had not seen the light of day for a hundred years. It gives an insight into what it was like to be a Catholic in the parishes around Cardiff over 120 years ago. Research into the 1881 census returns reveals some intriguing references to personalities prominent in the Church at the time - notably the Marchioness of Bute.


No.4 The Old Catholic Families - The Vaughans of Courtfield. 
  A family saga. The line can be traced back to the estate where Henry V was raised, the Vaughan family kept the Faith through penal times "in spite of dungeon, fire and sword". Heavily fined for recusancy (not attending the Anglican Church) and often searched for by "bounty hunters" from Hereford they survived to become the leading Catholic family in England and Wales producing a cardinal, an archbishop, bishops, priors, a famous Jesuit preacher and superiors of religious foundations, priests and nuns. An amazing story of fidelity to the Old Faith.


No.5. John Cuthbert Hedley OSB - The Last Bishop of Newport.
  For seventy five years the Catholic Church in South Wales was in the charge of just two bishops. Both were Benedictines. Both were outstanding intellectually. Both were considered for the top post (Archbishop of Westminster). Hedley it was who saw that Cardiff was to be the administrative centre of Wales, moved his home there and prepared the way, for the Diocese of Newport to become the Archdiocese of Cardiff.


No.6 Religious Orders in Herefordshire - Before and After The Reformation.
  Researched and written by one of our members, it provides an interesting survey of the religious foundations in Herefordshire at the Reformation. In an area well-known for recusancy, it explores the revival of religious houses in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.


No.7 Catholic Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute.
  Published to coincide with the centenary of the death of John Patrick. the Third Marquess, whose conversion in 1868.was a "cause celebre". This is a story of the hate-love relationship between the very rich Bute family and the mainly Irish immigrant Catholic community in Cardiff.


No.8 The Catholic Church in Modern Wales.
  Written by Bishop Daniel Mullins, as the latest in the Millennium Series, it gives a scholarly overview of the development of the Catholic Church in Wales and Herefordshire since the restoration of the Hierarchy in 1850.



Reprints.

In response to requests for "something on St. David ", we have reprinted Saint David and the Early Welsh Saints originally published in 1969.

 
The Life and Legends of St. David - a reprint of a booklet first produced in 1891 by the St. Teilo's Catholic Historical Society.
 
The Life and Memorials of St Teilo (Patron of Llandaff and Cardiff) produced in 1893 by the St Teilo's Catholic Historical Society of South Wales
 
Catholicity A Hundred Years Ago in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire A paper written by Bishop Burton, Bishop of Clifton and read at the Catholic Congress at Cardiff, July 1914
 
Parish Histories
During the past year we have produced two very successful booklets in this series......
 
A History of St. Peter's Parish, Roath Cardiff 1854 - 2001 A comprehensive account of the second Catholic parish to be established in Cardiff after the Reformation..It contains many old pictures, a chronicle and a list of priests who served the parish.
 
The Catholic Revival in Newport (The First Hundred Years) written by Edward Curran, this booklet tells the fascinating story of the first Catholic Mission to be set up in Industrial South Wales in the 19th century. The second was St. David's Cardiff (Book No 2 in the millennium series) and the third St. Peter's, Cardiff (see above).
 
Thanks to the efforts of a volunteer work force all the above can be obtained for just £1.40 (post free) £1 for personal shoppers from:
 
C.T.S. Bookshop,
St. David's Cathedral Precinct,
38 Charles Street,
Cardiff CF10 2GE
Tel: 029-203-97174 Fax. 029-203-83062
e-mail: ctscardiff@netscapeonline.co.uk

 

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