Our Lady & St George Walthamstow
From Our Lady & St George Walthamstow  "... the mission chapel of St George .. small building, made of Kentish ragstone was opened in 1849 by Dr. (later Cardinal) Nicholas Wiseman, who was then...
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Mary Overie
Traditions vary but one is that Mary was the daughter of John Overs, a very successful Thames ferryman in the tenth century. Â She gave her inherited wealth to fund a convent which became St Mary Ov...
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John Owen, DD
Church leader. Â Born Oxfordshire. Â Chaplain to Cromwell. Â Died Ealing. Â Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
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Thankful Owen
Non-conformist minister. Born in the City of London. President of St John's College, Oxford 1650-60. Chosen to succeed Thomas Goodwin, when he died in 1680, as pastor of the Independent congregatio...
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Patrick Packingham
Burnt at the stake in Uxbridge for his Protestant beliefs. Aged 23. He was charged with not doing deference to Romish ceremonies, and was condemned by Bishop Bonner, his cause not being heard. Â T...
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Mrs Palfreman
Methodist of South Hampstead, active 1886. Our colleague, Andrew Behan, believes he has identified the Mrs Palfreman whose name was carved on the foundation stone at Holly Park Methodist Church, H...
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Saint Vincent Pallotti
Priest.  Born Rome. Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, the Pallottine Fathers. Canonized in 1963.  He suggested that St Peter’s should be built but we ar...
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Reverend James Palmer
In 1656 he founded almshouses in Palmer’s Passage for six poor old men and six poor old women together with a school for the education of twenty boys. Old maps show these almshouses running most of...
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Laurence Parnam
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
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