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RCS - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark Diocesan Archives
- SJW - St. John's Seminary Archive
  - P - Personal papers
    - 1 - Joseph C McGrath

Repository	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark
Ref No	RCS/SJW/P/1/2
Title	Photograph album
Date	1874-1890
Level	Item
Description	Carte de visites album with apertures for four 2.5' x 4' photographs per page. Many of the spaces are empty and most are unlabelled. Some have been labelled in pencil, but this appears to have been at a later date. Labels include Pope Pius IX, Bishop Grant [photograph missing], Norfolk? [Possibly Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk]; Cure of Ars [Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, Curé d'Ars]; [?] Church, Weybridge?; Canon Roe [photograph missing]; Lyon; Tournely ?; Leo XIII; Canon Mc Grath & Fr. Van Doorne [Fr. Hendrick Van Doorne was a Flemish priest at Camberwell]; Cardinal Bourne [missing]; Fr. Boase. Jan 16 1887 [missing] On the first page is a photograph of Mrs Catherine McGrath, probably McGrath's mother. Loosely inserted is a prayer card which has the same photo. Mrs McGrath died 14th October 1875. There are quite a few photographs of nuns in the album. The Sisters Of The Holy Infant Jesus had set up a convent school in Camberwell. In 1898 McGrath invited them to move with him to Weybridge. Subjects of loose photographs include a priest taken by H H Baily of Hobart Town, Tasmania, labelled on the reverse 'An affectionate memento of the Philosophy Year to Rev. J McGrath of Deloraine, Tasmania, August 1874'; montage of mini photographs of Waterloo. Also includes a bill sent to McGrath for goods bought from John Marshall & Co, 42 Paternoster Row, London, 1890.
Physical Description	Embossed leather binding, fixings for brass clasps, gilt-edged pages, 230 x 290mm album. Leather very worn, spine loose, very dirty.

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