Hi Elaine, I am afraid I have not much info. on the actual church or register but I do know from the street directory for Penarth, Cardiff in 1910 that the Catholic Church was St. Joseph's Catholic Church and the priest was Re. Stephen L Rossetti, with a surname like this I am sure that there would have been quiet a few Italians going to this Church. Ruth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elaine Collins" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 8:58 PM Subject: [Anglo-Italian] Italian churches and places of worship > Hello listers, > > below is the beginning of the pages for the AI website that deal with the > churches and places of worship in the UK, both historically and present day. > Please please, see if you can add anything to this list. I'm particularly > keen to add details of what registers exist and where they are kept,and of > course if there are any transcriptions, or if they're included in the IGI, > so if you have any ideas, please let me know. > > In many towns and cities, there isn't a specific Italian church or mission, > and it would be good to add details of which Roman Catholic churches the > Italian communities tended to use, so if you've found more than a handful of > Italians in any register, please also let me know. > > I can't seem to find anything for Wales. Surely Cardiff, Swansea etc had > Italian communities? > > All help gratefully received. And if there's anyone out there who wants to > take this on as a little research project, I'd be very happy to hand it over > while I work on other things. > > Elaine > > > > > > ITALIAN CHURCHES IN THE UK > > BEDFORD > St. Francis Cabrini (Italian Church) > 10 Woburn Road, Bedford MK40 1EG > Established in 1965 > (Where did the Bedford Italian community worship before this?) > > Scalabrini Fathers (CS) Rev Giuseppe Bortolazzo (Superior), Rev Ettore > Zentile (01234) 359515 Fax: (01234) 340626 > > The community holds a Festa on the last Sunday of August. > > LONDON > > St Peter's Italian Church, Clerkenwell Road, ECI > St Peter's was built as an Italian Church in 1864, and is the only Italian > church to have national parish status. History of St Peter's can be found at > http://www.stpeters-italian-church.org.uk/history1.htm > > Also on the web but, somewhat hard to find, is a much longer and more > detailed article called St Peter's Italian Church In London by Luca Stanca > (English translation by Michael Coffey). If you search on Google for it, > they have a cached version of the PDF file that you can read. > > > Chiesa del Redentore, Brixton Road > 'In December 1993, the Italian Centro Scalabrini, in South London, > celebrated its 25th anniversary. The Centro Scalabrini, and Italian > religious-cum-social club, is part of the Scalabrini congregation, an > Italian missionary order founded in 1887 to minister mainly to Italian > emigrants and their descendants around the world. Aside from the > administration offices, the building houses the Italian Women's Club, a club > for retirees, a youth club, and the Church of the Redeemer (Chiesa del > Redentore). The Scalabrinian fathers in London also edit the most widely > read Italian newspaper in Britain: La Voce degli Italiani (LV hereafter).' > This extract comes from a paper by Anne-Marie Fortier and further details > and the full article can be read at: > http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/soc066af.html > > Royal Sardinian Chapel, Lincoln's Inn - used by the Italian community, and > many other London Catholics, before St Peter's was built. > > 'But before Westminster Cathedral was thought of (it was first used on St. > Joseph's Day in 1903) the Red Mass was celebrated at the Old Sardinian > Chapel, attended by the few Catholic judges and counsel attached to the > English courts, though most of these Catholic jurists were Irish and not > English. The Sardinian Chapel, which used to stand in Lincoln's Inn Fields, > was formerly the Embassy Chapel of the King of Sardinia. It was an important > link with history, since it was the only Chapel in London where Mass was > allowed to be celebrated in penal days.' > from Henry Watts: America (October 3, 1942). To read more about the Red > Mass, click here http://www.thomas-more-ottawa.org/history.html > > 'The Sardinian Chapel, Lincoln's Inn Fields, which has registers dating from > 1729, and which is said to have been founded in 1648, was doubled in size. > At one time in the eighteenth century seven priests were attached to it, > serving a Catholic population of nearly 14,000; in 1814 there was a Catholic > population of 7000 served by four or five priests. In 1799 Bishop Douglass > took over the lease of the chapel and converted the ambassador's house into > a presbytery, the mission being henceforward supported by the congregation. > The old church, built by Inigo Jones and enlarged by Sir Christopher Wren, > was standing until 1909, when it had to be abandoned to make room for the > London County Council improvements in connection with the new highway > Kingsway, and the present church was built a short distance off.' > > >From the New Advent online Catholic Encylopedia > http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15592c.htm > > 'Venetian and Neapolitan Governments also maintained chapels where public > worship was carried out more or less attractively during the eighteenth > century.' > http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15592c.htm > > Three small catholic chapels were opened in Clerkenwell to accommodate the > burgeoning immigrant Catholic population, which included Irish as well as > Italians, before St Peter's was built: > St Peter and Paul in Rosoman Street (now Amwell St) 1847 (chuch still > survives) > St Brigid's in Baldwin Gardens in 1850 > The Holy Family Chapel in Saffron Hill in 1854 > > > MANCHESTER > Although there is no specifically Italian church in the city, St Michael's > was traditionally used by the Italian community, and sponsored the annual > Whit Walk. > > NOTTINGHAM There is an Italian mission here. > > PETERBOROUGH > San Giuseppe, nr Gladstone Street. Established in 1962. (This information > comes from Terri Colpi's book, The Italian Factor 1991, but I have been > unable to find a current address for a church of this name.) > > Peterborough, Cambs 6 (+) St. Anthony's > Address: 3, Fairfield Road, Fletton, PE2 8BD Phone: (01733) 565527 > Clergy: Italian Mission Scalabrini Fathers (C.S) Rev. Giovanni Alessi > > SCOTLAND There was no special place of worship, and so you may need to > check the records of the nearest Roman Catholic church. > > GLASGOW Many Italians were concentrated in the Garnet Hill area and so > worshipped at St Aloysius. > > > > > ==== ANGLO-ITALIAN Mailing List ==== > Inaugural Meeting of the Anglo-Italian Family History > At the SOG Fair at 3pm For the venue address look at > http://www.dreamwater.net/anglersrest/Italian.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Whoops, sorry Ruth. I replied to your later email before I read this one, so please ignore my question and thanks for already answering it!. Elaine Hi Elaine, > I am afraid I have not much info. on the actual church or register but I do > know from the street directory for Penarth, Cardiff in 1910 that the > Catholic Church was St. Joseph's Catholic Church and the priest was Re. > Stephen L Rossetti, with a surname like this I am sure that there would have > been quiet a few Italians going to this Church. > Ruth > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Elaine Collins" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 8:58 PM > Subject: [Anglo-Italian] Italian churches and places of worship >