Records Volume 78: An I.B.V.M. Biographical Dictionary of the English Members and Major Benefactors

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eighteenth century ; it re-fashioned and enlarged Croxdale Hall, laid out extensive gardens and planted exotic trees , and it was during this century that nine Salvin girls , seven of them from Croxdale , came to school at the Bar Convent . Three more followed in the early nineteenth century, so with Dorothy from Pridhoe , Ann from Easingwold and two daughters from Burn Hall, the Salvins make a brave show of fourteen past pupils of the convent . Only two became nuns , but the Institute had every opportunity of leaving its mark on the family.

THWING. Some members of the prolific Thwing family were Catholic in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I , but only in the early 17th century did the family definitely declare itself recusant. The Heworth branch , under Sir George Thwing, experienced many ups and downs of fortune, suffering fines for recusancy and sequestration for loyalty to the Royalist cause in the Civil War. Heworth Manor had to be sold, but was re- purchased by Sir Thomas Gascoigne, allegedly for his niece Ellen (Thwing), but more likely as a place of refuge for members of the Institute (who had previously lived there from 1645 to 1650). Sir George, with a large family to provide for, sometimes conformed and thereby earned from Aveling the epithet a shifty ' recusant, but his children remained true to their faith . Thomas '

became a priest and was martyred on the Knavesmire, York, in 1680. Catherine, Ann and Ellen were members of the Institute members of the Dolebank community and probably foundermembers of the Bar Convent . Jane Thwing (a member of the Hammersmith Community) belonged to the next generation. Her father was Albertus Thwing of the parish of St. Martin's, Coney Street, York, and she was almost certainly the niece of Thomas, Catherine, etc. , and therefore the great-niece of Sir Thomas Gascoigne.

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Records Volume 78: An I.B.V.M. Biographical Dictionary of the English Members and Major Benefactors

Published on Jan 1, 2001

The Catholic Record Society

This work spans nearly four centuries of apostolic endeavour. It is tempting to describe it succinctly as a biographical dictionary of the English Province, I.B.V.M., but the word Province would be anachronistic. For three hundred years there was no organisation in England that merited the term Province, and not until 1929 was the title bestowed on the English houses. The early history of the Institute in this country is played on a stage where transient actors come and go, some speaking significant lines, others - shadowy supernumeraries - making brief, silent appearances. This book records the individual history of those members whose religious -life was spent in England though some had made their noviceship on the continent, and some few died abroad. Taken together, the entries relate the fortunes of the Institute in England, but by their very nature only in a fragmentary way, so that a cohesive summary seems called for, and is therefore attempted in this introduction.