John Halliday, in a hardback exercise book he titled Warminster Notes, in which he compiled various handwritten notes about Warminster and district for local history slide shows he was giving during the 1980s, penned the following:
The Convent at Vicarage Street [Warminster] sold in 1980. (Anglican nuns arrived St. Denys’ 1880).
Summer 1980
From “Parish Church of St. Denys’ Graveyard Survey”, Warminster: inscriptions recorded by students of Kingdown School, Warminster, Summer 1980:
In loving memory of Sister Agnes aged 60. Called to rest April 6 1906. Trote my pust be burremy?
Plot 61.
1979
Community of St. Denys, Warminster – Sisters in Life Profession:
(Date professed, followed by name, followed by Offices or Charges of Branch Houses)
1878 or 1879, Mary, Mother Superior 1877-1892.
1878 or 1879, Frances.
1879, Agnes.
1880, Annie, Warminster 1890-1891 (while the Mother was in India); India 1891-1893.
1881, Georgina, Salisbury Mission House 1881; St. Denys School 188-?-1893; Mother Superior 1893-1897; Poplar 1898-1911.
1883, Katherine.
1884, Harriet.
1885, Margaret, Salisbury Mission House 1885-1888; Orphanage 1890-1892.
1885, Sophia.
1885, Louisa.
1887, Isabel.
1887, Rose, Orphanage; Assistant Superior 1897-1902.
1887, Blanche.
1888, Ellen, Salisbury Mission House; Orphanage 1892-1897; Mother Superior 1897-1944.
1888, Eleanore.
1890, Helena.
1890, joined CSD, Laura.
1895, Lilian, Principal Missionary Training College 1897-1943; Novice Mistress; Assistant Superior.
1901, Louise, Poplar 1911-1916; Caistor 1916-1917; Orphanage.
1901, Ada, St, Monica’s School 1901-1945.
1901, Kathleen.
1902, Margaret, Orphanage; Landport 1922.
1902, Helen Mary.
1906, May, Baby House ?-1936.
1907, Annie, Poplar 1917-1941; Assistant Superior 1943-1945; Novice Mistress 1946-1948.
1910, Gertrude, Landport 1919-1921 and 1930-1940.
1911, Mary Kathleen.
1912, Enid.
1912, Rachel, Red Cross Hospital at Salisbury Matron 1st World War; Assistant Superior 1945-1951.
1914, Barbara, Assistant Superior 1952-1956.
1915, Margaret Emily.
1916, Maud, Orphanage; India 1920-1938; Mother Superior 1945-1957.
1916, Faith.
1916, Ida.
1917, Mabel.
1917, Tryphena.
1917, Alethe, Chiswick 1938-1945; India 1946; Assistant Superior 1956-1966.
1918, Cecilia, Orphanage 1922-1937.
1918, Mary Sophie.
1919, Beatrice.
1920, Monica.
1920, Ida Mary, St. Monica’s School 1945-1952.
1921, Alice.
1922, Miriam, Novice Mistress 1948-1951; Chiswick 1951-1959.
1922, Bertha, Poplar 1946-1962.
1922, Marjorie, Chiswick 1931-1934.
1923, Frances, Chiswick 1945-1951.
1924, Bridget.
1925, Maud Mary, Orphanage 1937-1942.
1926, Veronica, Orphanage 1944; Novice Mistress 1951-1956.
1926, Jessie.
1927, Constance, Assistant Superior, 1952. St. Monica’s School 1952-1959.
1927, Amy.
1928, Dorothy, Novice Mistress 1956-1958; Chiswick 1959-1963.
1928, Lucie, Westhaven 1947-1958.
1929, Jean.
1929, Mary Theresa, Chiswick 1934-1938.
1929, Elsie.
1930, Agnes Ara, Novice Mistress 1970.
1930, Louisa Mary.
1931, Jeanetta, Ivy House 1957-1972.
1932, Edith.
1932, Ruth, South Africa 1949-1957; Mother Superior 1957-1969; Assistant Superior 1972; Deputy Assistant 1972-1978; Ivy House.
1932, Dorothea.
1932, Theodora.
1933, Doreen, South Africa 1962-1971.
1934, Winifred, Chiswick 1962-1974; South Africa 1957-1958.
1936, Elisabeth, Novice Mistress 1958-1967; Assistant Superior 1966-1972; Mother Superior 1972- .
1937, Sybil, Deputy Assistant 1970-1972.
1938, Agnes Mary, Novice Mistress 1967-1969; Mother Superior 1969-1972.
1939, Florence Mary.
1940, Una.
1943, Doris, South Africa 1958-1962.
1943, Stephanie, St. Monica’s School 1960-1970; Novice Mistress 1971-1972.
1944, Freda, Assistant Superior, 1978- .
1944, Hilary.
1945, Marianne.
1948, Clare.
1948, Carol, Novice Mistress 1969-1970.
1948, Grace.
1950, Gladys, Novice Mistress 1973- .
1951, Eunice.
1952, Julian.
1953, Mary Joy.
1956, Christine.
1956, Rosemary.
1956, Teresa.
1960, Eileen, Assistant Superior 1973-1978; Ivy House 1978- .
1962, Margaret Mary, Deputy Assistant 1978- .
1963, Phyllis.
1977, Frances Anne.
1979
Branch Houses of the Community of St. Denys:
In Warminster –
Orphanage of Pity 1867-1958 (re-named Westhaven in the 1950s).
Baby House 1911-1936.
St. Monica’s School founded (first called St. Denys’ School) in 1874. Amalgamated with Lord Weymouth’s School in 1973.
St. Denys’ Missionary Training College 1896-1943.
English Parish Houses
St. Martin’s, Salisbury Mission House 1881-1892?
All Saints, Poplar 1898-1962.
Holy Trinity, Caister-on-Sea 1916-1918.
St. Agatha’s, Landport, Portsmouth 1919-1940 (whole area blitzed and never restored as residential area).
St. Nicholas, Chiswick 1931-1974.
Single Sisters in Parish Work
St. Richard, Bognor 1974-1976.
Good Shepherd, Brighton 1976-
Overseas
India
Lahore Diocese -Lahore and Muree 1881-1892.
Chota Nagpur Diocese
Itki 1920-1943.
Manoharpur 1923-1949.
Namkum 1923-1943.
Africa
All Saints, Transkei 1949-1975.
Publications of the Community of St. Denys:
That I May Know Him
Sister Lilian’s Prayer Lectures to the College.
Published for the Community by SPG, 1951.
No Boots In Lent
Letters from St. Denys’ Missionaries 1865-1965.
Published 1965.
The Secret Passion
Devotions for Maundy Thursday and Good Friday.
Traveller’s Joy
Poems by Sister Miriam, CSD.
Published 1965.
C.S.D. The Life And Work of St. Denys’, Warminster to 1979.
Published by the Community of St. Denys, 1979.
St. Denys Home (Convent), Vicarage Street, Warminster, 1939:
Name, date of birth and personal occupation ~
Ellen M. Knights. 8 October 1860.
Sister of Mercy. Mother Superior.
Margaret Smithwhite. 4 November 1869.
Sister of Mercy. Principal of Mission Training College.
Kathleen M. Andrews. 26 April 1875.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Margaret Frost. 19 August 1873.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Helen M. Hoskin. 12 March 1877.
Sister of Mercy. Music Mistress.
Mary Rumball. 19 January 1880.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Kathleen M. Browne. 4 December 1880.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Enid F. Sprigg. 27 May 1880.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Rachel Slocock. 1 December 1878.
Sister of Mercy. Nurse.
Margaret E. Turner. 25 October 1884.
Sister of Mercy. Teacher.
Maud A. Jenkyn. 4 December 1878.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Ida A. Howard. 11 November 1881.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Tryphena L. Hiscock. 1 June 1889.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Mary S. Laxton. 30 August 1875.
Sister of Mercy. Incapacitated.
Beatrice Warren. 9 June 1885.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Ada Walker. 13 December 1884.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Ida M. Le Chavetois. 6 June 1886.
Sister of Mercy. Teacher.
Alice A. Hollingsworth. 28 October 1888.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Constance W. Clarke. 28 August 1893.
Sister of Mercy. Teacher.
Mary F.A. Proctor. 21 October 1898.
Sister of Mercy. Incapacitated.
Jenetta Richardson. 24 January 1897.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Dorothy E. Jones. 2 December 1894.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Gertrude Baldock. 12 June 1905.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Sybil Oates. 17 September 1899.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Constance M.S. Thomas. 22 April 1906.
Sister of Mercy. Teacher.
Florence M. Crouch. 13 July 1899.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Dorothy Jefferys. 5 December 1885.
Sister of Mercy. Unpaid Domestic Duties.
Ida M. Mummery. 15 February 1905.
Domestic Duties.
Edith M. Boldirston. 8 May 1903.
Sister of Mercy. Teacher.
