Parish report and historical record for St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Roseburg, Oregon, beginning on 21 January 1912, within a local population centre of 4,400 people. It outlines a chronological timeline of three serving pastors: Father Camillus Killian (1912–1913), Father Edward Walsh (1913–1919), and Father Adrian Sharkett, who was serving from 13 October 1919 to the date of the record. The document logs sacramental statistics, counting 300 parishioners, 138 baptisms, 34 marriages, and 16 converts, while noting that the community has one hospital and an eight-grade parish school staffed by two Sisters of Mercy. Financially, it records a substantial parish debt of $6,750.00 that was advanced and paid by the religious Order but is earmarked to be recollected from the parish itself. Finally, the log tracks regional missionary outreach, identifying the Holy Family Church in Glendale alongside five other regional mission stations – Myrtle Creek, Day’s Creek, Perdue, Yoncalla, Anlauf, and Cleaveland – detailing their distances from Roseburg and noting that they receive priestly visits roughly three times a year, or once a year if a church is nearby.
Ledger and account book for the Capuchin community at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The ledger provides a daily record of income received and expenses incurred by the community. Notes are made of income derived from mass stipends, street collections, sodalities, Third Order payments and temperance publications. Reference is also made to monies received from donations, alms, bequests, and cheques. Expenses include travel tickets, lay staff wages, groceries, building repairs and other sundries. An entry from November 1908 refers to the payment of £30 to John Keogh for the completion of work on the Calvary at St. Mary of the Angels. The entries are periodically signed by the Friary Guardian and by the Provincial Minister at visitations.
Manuscript annotation on first page reads:
‘Particulars supplied to the Archbishop at his Grace’s request.
Church of St Mary of the Angels – building was begun June 12th 1868. Total cost including altar pulpit, altar rails, organ but not furniture was £60,000
Architect, James McCarthy
Contractors, Michael Meade & son.
The Sacred Heart Chapel built as an aisle church was begun in March 1908. Cost: £4,000.
Architects, Ashlin & Coleman
Contractors, Thomas Connolly’.
A later annotation (in the hand of Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.) reads:
‘House ledger from October 1907 (Fr. Laurence Dowling, Guardian) to December 1929 (Fr. Angelus Healy, Guardian)’.
A List of Friary Guardians is supplied:
1907-1910, Fr. Laurence [Dowling]
1910-1913, Fr. Angelus [Healy]
1913-1916, Fr. Augustine [Hayden]
1916-1919, Fr. Fiacre [Brophy]
1919-1925, Fr. Benedict [Phelan]
1925-1928, Fr. Edward [Walsh]
1928-1931, Fr. Angelus [Healy]
1931-1934, Fr. Edward [Walsh]
A photograph of a group of Capuchin friars at a Provincial Chapter in St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street Friary, Dublin. The group includes Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Fr. Paul Neary OFM Cap., Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap., Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap., Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Fr. Malachy Hynes OFM Cap., Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap., Fr. Charles Brophy OFM Cap., and Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap.
File of loose newspaper clippings relating to the Capuchins in Cork and their ministries. The file includes:
• 'The Pioneer', Aug. 1956. The magazine contains an illustrated article on the Father Mathew Rally held in Mardyke in Cork on 24 June 1956. The rally was attended by many Capuchin friars from Holy Trinity Church and the keynote address was given by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap.
• Photographic print of the exterior of Holy Trinity Church, Father Mathew Quay, Cork. It is noted that the Church is listed for preservation in the Cork Draft Plan. 'Evening Echo', 27 Nov. 1968.
• Article (with photographic) print regarding the conferring of Papal award on Bernard Curtis for his loyal and longstanding service as organist in Holy Trinity Church, Cork. The group includes Fr. Alexius Healy OFM Cap. and Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap. 'Cork Examiner', 24 Nov. 1972.
• Photographic print of the Holy Trinity community on the occasion of the Golden Jubilees of Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap. and Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. The photograph was taken on 22 Sept. 1948 and was reproduced in the 'South Gate', 22 Sept. 1988.
A photograph of a group of Irish friars with Fr. Virgilio de Valstagna OFM Cap., Capuchin Minister General. The group includes Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap., Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap., Fr. Malachy Hynes OFM Cap., Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. and several novices.
A photograph of Fr. Virgilio de Valstagna OFM Cap., Capuchin Minister General, Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap., Fr. Eugene Carroll OFM Cap., Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. greeting civic leaders at City Hall in Cork. The group includes (first on the right) Seán French, Lord Mayor of Cork.
Letter to Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap., guardian, from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, 27 Marlboro Street, Cork, enclosing a memorandum from the Labour Exchange regarding the claims of Christopher Cotter for unemployment insurance following his period of work as a domestic at Holy Trinity Church.
Letter to Fr. Edward Walsh OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, from Fr. Patrick Sexton, Parish Priest, St. Patrick’s, Cork, conveying his concern that the authorities at Father Mathew Hall ‘held this huge gamble’ for money during the Lent season. Fr. Sexton encloses a newspaper cutting referring to the fund drive for the Hall. With cover.
Letter from Fr. Joseph Fenelon OFM Cap. to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, discussing the activities of Capuchin friars in California and in Oregon and their interactions with local church leadership. He also refers to the recent visit of the Minister General to the American mission houses. He writes ‘From Ukiah we came to Los Angeles where he stayed the night and next day we proceeded to Roseburg thence to Bend where Fr. Casimir and Vincent came to meet the General. He did not go to Lincoln or Abbottstown, but the Fathers met him on the way. I had to part with him at Bend as I was due for a Retreat here which started at Cathedral Chapel last night. The Father General expressed himself in very happy terms about the condition of our American Houses, but I am sure you will get a detailed account from him later on. He was very amiable and nice in every way, and by my fluency in the Latin tongue helped by the Secretary who speaks English pretty well. I spent a pleasant yet strenuous two weeks with him’. Reference is also made to the possibility of the Capuchins acquiring Santa Inés mission.
Letter from Fr. Bernard Clery OFM Cap., Sacred Heart Rectory, Lincoln, to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, referring to internal administrative and health concerns regarding the Franciscan Capuchin friars stationed at the parish. He reports on a specialist’s urgent medical assessment of Father Edward Walsh’s severe eye affliction, stressing that he must immediately cease reading, writing, and close work for up to two years to prevent the condition from worsening. The letter discusses administrative options to cover his duties — including a temporary reassignment back to the friary in Abbottstown — while noting that a replacement pastor is expected to arrive from Oregon in January 1923, following delays caused by a serious automobile accident.