- >Hi! Listers, >Although it wasn't said, specifically, this message seemed to me to suggest >the Ampleforth College is in Lancs. WRONG! It is firmly in North Yorks, >about two miles southwest of Helmsley, which is halfway between Pickering >and Thirsk. >"Just keeping t'band in t' nick," >Gordon Moody. >>>Hi, Lynne, >>> >>>You asked about some Benedictine monks who were old boys of Ampleforth >>Abbey school. >>>I have managed to get the details (below) from "Obit Book of the English >>Benedictines >>>from 1600 to 1912" by Dom H.N. Birt, Edinburgh 1913. >>> >>>The initial date is the date of death. Ampleforth Abbey school is the >>Benedictine >>>equivalent of Stonyhurst and is only slightly younger. There were >>Lancashire missions >>>run by Benedictines and this may explain why John WORSLEY, Ralph COOPER, >>and Thomas >>>MARGISON went to school at Ampleforth. There are at least two places in >>Lancashire >>>called Claughton, one just north of Preston (Claughton on Brock) and the >>other near >>>Lancaster, in Lonsdale. Claughton on Brock is a very old Catholic mission, >>but I am >>>sure it was operated by secular clergy. >>> >>>1837. March 12. D. Robert Basil Bretherton >>> Born in Claughton, Lancashire, 1796. Educated at Ushaw. Clothed at >>Ampleforth, 22nd >>>December 1818; professed, 14th June 1820. Ordained in minor orders. 1820; >>subdeacon >>>10th June 1822; deacon, 1st August 1823; priest, 18th December 1824. At >>St >>Edmund's, >>>Douay, 1822. Sent on the Mission in South Province to Coventry, 1824-27. >>Returned to >>>St Lawrence's, 1827-28. Then in North Province at Knaresboro', 1828-30. >>Again at St >>>Lawrence's, 1830-32. In France, 1832, till death at Amiens. >>> >>>1886. May 2. D. John Clement Worsley >>>Born at Cuerdon Green, near Preston, 21st May 1812. Educated at Ampleforth. >>Clothed >>>at Ampleforth, 13th November 1831; professed, 15th October 1833. Ordained >>in minor >>>orders, 11th July 1834; subdeacon, 12th July 1834; deacon, 28th May 1836; >>priest, >>>20th May 1837. Sent on the Mission in North Province at St Peter's, >>Liverpool, >>>1839-40; Rain-hill, 1840-42. Transferred to South Province at Bath, >>1842-86, and died >>>there. Cathedral Prior of Bath, 1870-83. Built new church, school and >>priory at Bath. >>> >>>1877. Jan. 30. D. Ralph Wilfrid Cooper >>>Born at Brownedge, 15th August 1819. Educated at Ample-forth. Professed >>at >>>Ampleforth, 5th March 1836. Ordained in minor orders, 31st December 1837; >>subdeacon, >>>1st January 1838; deacon, 31st December 1839; priest, 1844. Sent on the >>Mission in >>>North Province, to St Mary's, Liver-pool, 1845-48; St Anne's, Liverpool, >>1848-50. >>>Prior of St Lawrence's, 1850-63, during which time he built and opened >the >>new >>>College. Again on the Mission in North Province, at St Peter's, Liverpool, >>1863-64; >>>St Augustine's, Liver-pool, 1864-75; Clayton Green, 1875-77, and died >>there. >>>Definitor of Province, 1870-77. Cathedral Prior of Worcester, 1870. >>> >>>1891. June 27. D. Thomas Maurus Margison >>>Born at Brownedge, 1814. Educated at Ampleforth. Clothed at Ampleforth, >>13th November >>>1831; professed, 15th October 1833.Ordained in minor orders, 11th July >>1834; >>>subdeacon, 12th July 1834; deacon, 28th May 1836; priest, 20th May 1837. >>Sent on the >>>Mission in North Province, to St Peter's, Liverpool, 1840-43; St Anne's, >>Liverpool, >>>1843-46; St Lawrence's, 1846-47; St Peter's, Liverpool, 1847-48; >>Wrightington Hall, >>>1848-91, and died there. Cathedral Prior of Peterborough, 1878. >>> >>>1869. Feb. 5. D. George Austin Lowe >>>Born at Stainton, Yorkshire, 1806. Educated at Ampleforth. Clothed at >>Ampleforth, >>>25th Sept. 1828; professed, 10th October 1831, having refused to leave >St >>Lawrence's, >>>in 1830 at Dr Baines' request, as did his fellow novices. Ordained in >minor >>orders, >>>17th September 1830; sub-deacon, 11th July 1834; deacon, 12th July 1834; >>priest, >>>December 1834. Sent on the Mission in North Province to St Mary's, >>Liverpool, >>>1835-36; Morpeth, 1836-69, and died there. >>> >>>Hope this helps >>> >>>Jim