Downside Abbey (Bath, England)

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The microfilms were obtained by Mother M. Shanahan, R.S.C.J., for her article on Henry Gregory, English Bendictine, published in the R.A.H.S. Journal, December 1966.

From the description of Selected papers relating to Australia [microform]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225845760

Downside Abbey was and is a Benedictine house founded in Somerset, England in the late 1700s. It supplied some priests for Australia, the first Benedictine appointee being William Ullathorne who arrived in 1833, the second being John Bede Polding, chosen as Australia's first Catholic bishop in 1834.

From the description of Records of Downside Abbey [microform], 1819-1969 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702690800

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associatedWith Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau. corporateBody
associatedWith Benedictines corporateBody
associatedWith Bishop Basil Christopher Butler; Venerable Cuthbert Hilary Butler person
associatedWith Downside Abbey (Bath, England) corporateBody
associatedWith Gregory, H. G. 1813-1877. person
associatedWith Makinson, Thomas Rev. person
associatedWith Polding, John Bede, 1794-1877 person
associatedWith Ullathorne, William Bernard, 1806-1889 person
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England
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Monasticism and religious orders
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Active 1819

Active 1969

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