Acknowledgements

The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance provided in ways great and small by the following people:

The Hon. Georgina Stonor, President of the Catholic Family History Society.

Mr Leslie Brooks, Founder President of the Catholic Family History Society.

Mr Michael Walcot, Founder Vice-President of the Catholic Family History Society.

Miss Rosemary Rendel, Honorary Secretary of the Catholic Record Society.

Mr Michael Hodgetts, General Editor of the Catholic Record Society.

Mrs Christine Kelly, historian.

Mr J. C. H. Aveling, historian.

Dr Alan Davidson, historian.

Mrs Mary Howarth, local historian.

Mr Leslie North, local historian.

Mr John Chapman, local historian.

Mrs Mary McInally, family historian.

Mr Walter Pease, family historian.

Mr Ron Hildersley, family historian.

Lady Sara Grayson.

The late Mrs Marjorie Mockler of Milton Manor House.

Mr Anthony Mockler of Milton Manor House.

The Baroness von Twickell.

The Hon. Mrs Douglas Woodruff.

Mrs J. J. Dingwall of Lyford Grange.

Mrs Julia Skinner of Ipsden House.

Mrs Mary Newton of Fawley Manor.

Mrs Carolyn Saunders of Waterperry House.

Ms Ann Duncan of Tidmarsh Grange.

Mr John Joseph Eyston of Mapledurham House.

Mr Thomas More Eyston of Hendred House.

Mr Peter Ducker of Littlestoke Manor.

Mr Christopher Tucker of Bere Court.

Mr Lance Wright, formerly of Bere Court.

The Hon. William Benyon, MP, of Englefield House.

Mr Thomas Kressner of Britwell House.

Mr Joseph Robinson, Master of the Temple.

Mrs J. E. Edgell, Librarian & Keeper of Records, Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.

Mr Peter Keepax, Headteacher, Ufton Court Residential Centre.

Mr Howard Bush, formerly of Ufton Court.

Mr H. E. Wells-Furby, Second Master, Shiplake College.

Mr M. Dalton, Director of Bryant Homes Southern Limited, Popes Manor, Binfield.

Mr Brian S. Folley, Director of the Harleyford Estate Limited.

Mr A. J. Herbert, Manager, Finance and Administration, and Mr Chris Stammers, Photographer, Johnson Matthey Technology Centre, Blount's Court.

Sr Marguerite Kuhn-Régnier, Honorary Secretary, The Catholic Archives Society.

Sr Anne of the Visitation Convent, Caversham.

Dom Geoffrey Scott, Headmaster of Douai School, Upper Woolhampton.

Dom Aidan Bellenger of Downside Abbey.

Dom A. J. Stacpoole of Ampleforth Abbey.

Right Revd Maurice Wood, Resident Priest of Englefield.

Very Revd Anthony Griffiths, Parish Priest of Marlow.

Revd John Garvey, formerly Parish Priest of Dorchester-on-Thames.

Revd T. G. Holt, Archivist, Department of Historiography and Archives, English Province of the Society of Jesus.

Revd Ian Brayley, former Vice-Master, and

Revd Joseph T. Munitiz, Master, Campion Hall, Oxford.

Revd Francis Isherwood, Information Officer, Diocese of Portsmouth.

Revd Peter Dennison, Diocesan Archivist, Archdiocese of Birmingham.

Revd David Wood-Robinson, Rector of Holton, Albury, Waterperry and Waterstock.

Revd J. Donald Shepherd, Rector of Checkendon.

Revd A. J. H. Salmon, Vicar of Chobham.

Revd Jack Lewis, Rector of Compton.

Revd Richard B. Miller, Vicar of Aldermaston with Wasing and Brimpton.

Revd R. D. Ind, Vicar of Hurley and Stubbings.

Mr T. N. Rosser, Churchwarden, Shiplake Parish Church.

Mr C. Payne, Assistant Archivist of Berkshire County Council.

Mrs Margaret Smith, Senior Librarian, Local Studies Section of Reading Central Library.

Mr M. Bott, Keeper of Archives and Manuscripts, University of Reading.

Mr Paul Cannon, Assistant Curator, Newbury District Museum.

Mr Arthur MacGregor, Assistant Keeper, Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Mrs Georgina Strauss, Superintendent, Old Library Reading Rooms, Bodleian Library.

Miss S. J. Barnes, County Archivist, Oxfordshire County Council.

Mr L. White, County Librarian, Oxford Central Library.

Dr Malcolm Graham, Principal Librarian of the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies, Oxford Central Library.

Ms Sheila Weatherhead, Centre for Oxfordshire Studies, Oxford Central Library.

Ms Christine Nelson, Acting Records Assistant, Hampshire County Museums Service.

Mrs Avril Hart, Victoria & Albert Museum.

Mr Hugh Carter, Keeper of Natural History, Reading Museum.

Mr Leslie Cram, Principal Keeper, Reading Museum.

Mr Dorrien Belson.

Dr Francis Andrews.

Dr David Chappell of James R Knowles & Company.

Mr Andrew Cope, Economics Division, Bank of England.

Mr Ian Stewart of Savills plc.

Mr Les Bowerman.

Mrs Vivienne Beaumont.

Ms Liz Vincent, local historian.