338 No. IX
THE CATHOLIC REGISTERS OF
WOOTTON WAWEN
WARWICKSHIRE
A CHAPLAINCY must have existedlong prior to the commencement of these Registers, due to the residence of the Catholic family of Smythe and its predecessors ; and it must be borne in mind that the allied family of Throckmorton of Coughton, who have done so much for the preservation of the faith , owned property and had a burial place in the chapelry of Ullenhall in this parish. We find also
the Franciscanfriars doing service to people in places in the neighbourhood in the middle of the seventeenth century. (Phillimore's Birmingham Registers.) Mr Gillow kindlysupplies thefollowing notes of resident priests at Wootton-Wawen. Fr. Henry Kemp, S.J. , here many years , being met with in 1717 and 1724 seq., probably remaining here till his retirement to Watten some years before his death in 1737;-Dom Wm. Jos . Howard , O.S.B., died here Sept. 16, 1733 ; Fr. James Peter Frost, O.S.F. , lived many years with Peter Holford, Esq. , at Wootton Hall , beloved and respected , and died suddenlywhilst saying nightprayers for the family , " Oct. 3, 1785 , aged 54;-Fr. James Anthony Caley, O.S.F. , came 1785 , till death March 14, 1798 ;-Fr. Edward Andrew Weetman, O.S. F. , came in April, 1798 , and subsequently removed to Britwell ; -Fr. Henry Bishop, O.S.F., who before he became a Franciscan at Douai had served as an officer in the Irish Brigade at the battle of Fontenoy, is said to have acted for a considerabletime in his old age as chaplain to Sir Edward Smythe, Bart , at Wootton Hall . He had formerly been at Baddesley, and there his remains were interred June 19, 1811 , aged 86 ;-Fr. Jno . Augustine Harrison , O.S.B., 1803-7; Fr. Jas. Benedict Deday, O.S.B. , 1806 till death, Nov. 7, 1845 ;-Fr. Richard Peter Kendal, O.S.B., died here March 26, 1814 ;-Father Joseph BernardShort, O.S.B., 1840-51 ; Fr. Peter Jos. Hewitt , O.S.B., 1851 till death March 11, 1869 ; Fr. Hen. Gregory Lane, O.S.B., 1857-59 and 1867-9. The present new church, which replaced the chapel erected in 1814, was opened Nov. 29 , 1904 , and like its predecessor is dedicated to Our Lady and St Benedict . The mission has lately undergone some adverse vicissitudes, from which, we may hope, it may well emerge with fresh life and vigour. The Society is indepted to Mr Crisp, F.S.A., for the copy of this register. J. S. H.
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MARRIAGES AT WOOTTON. 1786
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February ye 20 John Perry of Birmingham to AnneDupont. February ye 27 John Spooner of Henley to Anne Lawrence. April ye 24 Thomas Crow of Wootton to Martha Kambel . June ye 8 John Southall of Worcesterto Eliza Richards . October ye 17th Richd Bradford of Henley to Cath : Stanbridge . November ye 5th Joseph May of Wootton to Susanna [ no surname entd. ] 1787
February ye 13th John Jakeman of Wootton to Eliza Bradford. August ye 23 Moses Bragg of Longford to Sara Sabin. 1788
June ye 24 Elias Darley of Birmingham to Mary Chapman. 1789
May ye 21st Wm Anderson of Wootton to Mary Woodbine . June ye 22 Jos Williams of Wootton to Ann Hobhead. 1791
March ye 12th Wm Chambers of Wootton to Ann Anderson. May ye 3rd Wm Howard of to Eliza Walsingham