Hello I am new to this list   My name is Eileen I was born in Liverpool England, now living in Connecticut USA, and I am researching the BUCKLEY surname, my line starts in SCAMMONDEN, YORKSHIRE and migrates to Lancashire,  " St.Helens, Liverpool, Newton Le Willows, Darwen."   The BUCKLEY ancestor I am currently following is ALFRED BUCKLEY born 1865 in , The 1891 census shows he attended Withington College in Lancashire and studied Theology when he was 25 , I have traced him all the way to North Vancouver, Canada.     Am interested in find out more about this college, and if it has any connection to The Victoria College he has also laid claim to attending. Can anyone help with this?     Thank you Eileen

You might want to consider St Bedes in the same area of Manchester as Withington. But I think it comes under Whalley Range. Its on Alexander road and east of Withington road. I was a catholic teaching college in the late 1800's. See www.stbedescollege.co.uk The following was taken from the above web site ............. When Cardinal Vaughan rented a house, 16 Devonshire Street, Grosvenor Square, off Oxford Road in December 1875 to be used as a school to educate the sons of Manchester Catholics, little did he realise that almost 125 years later nearly 1000 sons and daughters of Manchester Catholics would be on the roll of St Bede's - a far cry from the 14 boys who were divided into two forms when St Bede's Manchester College opened on 28th January 1876. It was the first school under the patronage of St Bede: possibly the name was chosen because the Cardinal's brother, a Benedictine and the Archbishop of Sidney, was Dom Bede Vaughan. In August 1877, the Manchester Aquarium on Alexandra Road and the plot of land around it was purchased by the then Bishop Vaughan for College purposes. On 10th September 1877, St Bede's College re-opened in the Manchester Aquarium with 45 pupils who were taught by 11 staff, 8 of them priests. In the late 1870s and early 1880s, the Vaughan building was constructed and in 1892, Salford Catholic Grammar School (the Diocesan Junior seminary) amalgamated with the College which duly became the place where over 500 priests, not to mention several Bishops and Archbishops, were educated. Mike Morris Toronto Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eileen" <dublinswift@yahoo.com> To: <ENG-MANCHESTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 3:53 PM Subject: [ENG-MAN] BUCKLEY, Alfred 1865-1947 Hello I am new to this list My name is Eileen I was born in Liverpool England, now living in Connecticut USA, and I am researching the BUCKLEY surname, my line starts in SCAMMONDEN, YORKSHIRE and migrates to Lancashire, " St.Helens, Liverpool, Newton Le Willows, Darwen." The BUCKLEY ancestor I am currently following is ALFRED BUCKLEY born 1865 in , The 1891 census shows he attended Withington College in Lancashire and studied Theology when he was 25 , I have traced him all the way to North Vancouver, Canada. Am interested in find out more about this college, and if it has any connection to The Victoria College he has also laid claim to attending. Can anyone help with this? Thank you Eileen ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. Other people can learn from them! ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Was it possible he attended Victoria University of Manchester? Did you look at the names for the surrounding streets and roads when you checked out the 1891 census? That would have helped narrow down the search. Mike Morris Toronto Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eileen" <dublinswift@yahoo.com> To: <ENG-MANCHESTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 3:53 PM The BUCKLEY ancestor I am currently following is ALFRED BUCKLEY born 1865 in , The 1891 census shows he attended Withington College in Lancashire and studied Theology when he was 25 , I have traced him all the way to North Vancouver, Canada. Am interested in find out more about this college, and if it has any connection to The Victoria College he has also laid claim to attending. <snip>