Deelreeks 2025-06-23/2207 - Obituaries

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FILING CABINET 009:

DRAWER TWO: SPENCER PAPERS

FILE TWO: FATHER IGNATIUS SPENCER: OBITUARIES

1. Original telegram from Fr Eugene [Martorelli] CP, St Joseph’s Retreat, Highgate to Blessed Paul’s Retreat, Dublin [Fr Bernardine], 1 October 1864, “Father Ignatius Spencer died today at Carstairs, Scotland.”

2. A photostat of a newspaper cutting in Fr Salvian Nardocci’s Collection, vol.1, p.24, column 1, 1864 of the death of Fr Ignatius and a poem in his honour.

3. A photostat of a newspaper cutting in Fr Salvian Nardocci’s Collection, vol.1, p.24, column 1, 1864 of the funeral procession [NB. Fr Salvian had scored out ‘Fr Ignatius Paoli’ and written in ‘Salvian’. Fr Ignatius Paoli must not have been at the funeral. [In Spain?] Fr Salvian was.]

4. Photocopy of the obituary of Fr Ignatius Spencer in the Suffrage Book of the Retreat of Morricone. Italian.

5. Photostat of the obituary of Fr Ignatius Spencer in the Suffrage Book of the Scala Sancta, Rome (Italian) and a photocopy of the photostat.

6. Obituary Notice of Fr Ignatius Spencer. English. Typed by Fr Ignatius McElligott, 18 December 1976.

7. Extract from Fr Salvian Nardocci’s Annals of the Anglo-Hibernian Province, pp.79-93, 1864, giving the Obituary and other details on Fr Ignatius Spencer.

8. A copy of a page on Fr Ignatius Spencer from the Highgate Catholic, January, 1896.