Catholic Record Society, Transactions of the

These are hard bound, printed volumes, published by the Catholic record Soc. They are a mixed bag of material - Priests records, registers, correspondence, government papers relating to catholics and records from Catholic facilities such as Seminaries, schools, convents. The early focus is on Lancashire but perhaps this is because the bulk of active recusants were in the north. The material is of immense value since they represent the only source of records of clandestine Catholic activity and in many cases the baptisms, marriages etc were not repeated in the established church.

Vol. Sce Ref Pub. Title
01 CRS 01 1904 Miscellanea I: Huddleston Obituaries
02 CRS 02 Miscellanea II: Registers of Towneley Hall
03 CRS 03 Miscellanea III
04 CRS 04 Miscellanea IV: Lord Burghleys Map of Lancs.; Registers of Robert Hall & Hornby
05 CRS 05 English Martyrs, 1584 – 1603
06 1909 Miscellanea V: Lanc. Recusants, Chas. II
07 Miscellanea VI: Bedingfeld Papers, etc
08 Diary of the "Blue Nuns"
09 1911 Miscellanea VII: Correspondence of Cardinal Allen
10 Douay Diaries I
11 Douay Diaries II
12 1913 Obituaries
13 1913 Miscellanea VIII: Registers of Fr. Thomas Worthington
14 1914 Miscellanea IX, Poor Clares, Gravelines &c
15 1913 Lancashire Registers I: The Fylde I
16 1914 Lancashire Registers II: The Fylde II
17 1915 Miscellanea X, Liege CRSS, Pontoise OSB, Registers
18 1916 Recusants, Exchequer Roll 1592-3
19 1917 Miscellanea XI,
20 1916 Lancashire Registers III: North Part
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23 1922 Lancashire Registers IV: Brindle, Samlesbury
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31 1932 Lancashire Registers V: Fernyhalgh, Goosnargh, Alston Lane
32 1932 Misc., Francis Tregian, York Recusants 1735, Reports of Martyrs
33 1933 Father Augustine Baker, English Benedictine Records
34 1934 London Session records 1605-1685
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"Recusant History, Vol. 16" Catholic Record Society

Originally a digest sized periodical, The State Library of NSW holds them in stack, hardbound, as N282.42/15. Photostats taken of pages listed in index from end of volume and analysed here.

CRR 16

"Visitation of Lancashire by Sir William Dugdale, 1664-5"
DUG

Sir William Dugdale was one of the College of Heralds and in 1664 he travelled to Lancashire to record the Pedigrees of the families who were claiming Coats of Arms. The four major houses of Anderton in Lancashire of the day recorded a pedigree at this visitation - Anderton, Lostock, Birchley and Clayton. Only the heraldic blazon and the details of the current holder of the arms is transcribed here. The pedigrees for each family will be treated seperately as Genealogical source reference later.

Dug 0.41 Source (background info), comments and references.
Dug 4.41 Transcription, comments, analysis of page 4 - Andertons of Anderton

"Armorial Families" Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles
FOX

Two hardbound volumes, 1929 ed. Basically a heraldic register that goes into great detail, with some illustrations, blazons and pedigrees.

"Grantees Of Arms, Part 1, A-J, 1687-1898" Harleian Society
GOA

Hard bound volume that lists grants of arms and the reference to trace it in the Grant Books. No details or illustrations but good as a pointer to further study.

"Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica" Vol. VIII, Clarke, A.W.
MGH

Large hardbound volume, very old, a "scrapbook" of source material with references that could be followed up further.

"Heraldic material at Society Of Genealogists" Society of Genealogists, London
SGH

On a visit to the Society of Genealogists in London in 1984, I made copies of material from a "packet", or envelope of papers, archived on the top floor (possibly "The Holworthy Collection"). They are handwritten in ink in an archaic copperplate script (19th C?).