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The Mawhoods of Smithfield and Finchley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

E.E. Reynolds
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There is a notice of William Mawhood (1724–1797) in Gillow (IV. 543–4); this was included presumably because of his diary notebooks (1764–1790), which contain valuable information relating to the history of Catholicism in England during the period of the Gordon Riots. The Catholic Record Society has in preparation for issue to its members an edition of the diary covering all those matters of Catholic interest to which it refers. The editorial work on this has necessitated a study of the Mawhood family. The following pages summarise the results of that research as far as it has gone. There are a number of errors in Gillow’s account to be corrected.

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British Catholic History , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1951 , pp. 59 - 77
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1951

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Notes

(1) D.N.B. calls him “William Turner of York”, but in the Brooke MSS. (College of Arms) he is described as above.

(2) Information from the Clerk of the Fishmongers’ Company.

(3) No record traced.

(4) Marriage contract in family papers.

(5) Brooke MSS.

(6) Middlesex Memorials, 1750–1793. (Middlesex Records Office).

(7) Award Map, 1814, Finchley Public Library.

(8) There is need for a study of how far Catholics during the later Penal Times were able to take part in local affairs. Thus, William Mawhood, the diarist, was Surveyor of the Highway, Finchley, 1772–73; no oath of allegiance was required for this particularly thankless hit of public service.

(9) i.e. Blandike, modern Blendecques, used as a code word for St. Omers College. Blandike was their country house.

(10) As stated in a copy of the marriage settlement in the family papers.

(11) Canon Burton in his biography of Bishop Challoner (II.177n.) refers to a note-book, Tabula baptizatorum per me Ricardum Challoner, in the Westminster Archives. This might contain records of the baptisms of the other Mawhood children, but several searches for this valuable document have proved unsuccessful.

(12) The Librarian of the War Office has supplied extracts from the records of this Charles Mawhood and of William John Mawhood.

(13) See D.N.B.

(14) He went out to Gibraltar and took part in the siege. On 29 August 1780, he committed suicide, according to his cousin, by the peculiarly uncomfortable method of swallowing nails.

(15) See Burton's biography of Challoner, vol.II, pp.243–266. A full transcript of the relevant passages in Mawhood’s diary was published in the Westminster Cathedral Chronicle, Jan. 1948. See also Downside Review, July 1888. Dom Charles Austin Corney, O.S.B., has in his charge the chalice used by Bishop Challoner at Finchley.

(16) Probably Bishop Challoner's version which went through nine editions during the 18th century.

(17) When the floor of St. Bartholomew's was lowered in 1864, ‘an immense mass of bones” was removed and buried in a pit in the small churchyard to the left of the pathway leading from the gatehouse to the church.