A breakthrough occurred when a document came to light written by Oswald Eaves OSB who was the Abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Fort Augustus in Scotland. He had been very keen to demonstrate that he was a direct descendant of the Blessed John de Southworth who was subsequently made a saint. He had made a fairly convincing case that he was so descended and Lord Lyon King of Arms granted him a coat of arms that is a variation on the one that the Eaves of Fishwick were granted many years before. The research carried out by Mr France for the Abbot threw up many interesting variations on the Eaves name. We have: D'Ewes, Deyvas, D'Eyvas, Dewyas (there are a lot more). Facts and Memoirs By Abbot Oswald Eaves, O.S.B. An account of the Southworth and Eaves families of Lancashire, being also a personal memoir of my own connection with the story of Saint John Southworth, one of the 40 martyrs canonised on October 25th, 1970, by Pope Paul VI in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome. Introduction I have often promised relations and friends that I would write up notes on the above subject, and have postponed it over many years. Now that Blessed John Southworth is about to be canonised as a saint along with 39 other English and Welsh martyrs, and at which ceremony I hope to be present in Rome, the time seems opportune to put on record some interesting facts of genealogy, and even stories of a personal nature which connect me and my relations with this martyr and saint. The problem has been how to order this story. Should one details historical facts and then add personal stories, or should I mix facts and memoirs as the story unfolds in relation to myself and my memories? I have decided on the latter form, hoping that the account may be more readable as a story. I leave facts about the martyr himself and his life-story to his biographers. The chief biographies up to date are: Blessed John Sothworth, by the Rev. Albert Purdie (Burns, Oates & Washbourne Ltd. 1930). John Sothworth ­ Priest and Martyr, by E.E. Reynolds. (Burns & Oates Ltd. 1962). Written in Karlstad, Sweden. October 1970. ---- Tradition My own interest in the Southworth-Eaves relationship began when I was a young boy of some 10 years of age, just over 50 years ago. My father's sister Walburga Eaves (born 23 November 1860) was the oldest child of Richard Eaves and his wife Margaret, nee Southworth, both of Preston, Lancashire. The other children of the marriage were: Joseph Oswald my father, (born 1864); Thomas (born 1867) and Edward (born 1870). All this generation of children had been brought up to know that their mother Margaret Southworth claimed to be of the family of Southworth of Samlesbury and therefore were relations of the martyr- priest John, martyred at tyburn on June 28th, 1654. It was my aunt Walburga who impressed upon me at a young age that my grandmother had been a relation of the martyr. One can only surmise that there had been 240 years of tradition. My aunt even gave me a blessed medal which she said had been handed down through the Southworth family for several generations. I have it to this day. It is unusual and bears the face of Christ on one side with the words "Salvator Mundi" and on the other side the face of the Virgin Mary with the words "Mater Divine Gratiae". The medal hangs on my rosary. A detail of interest is that my own mother, two sisters and a brother have died holding it in their hands. Southworth-Eaves families Of my grandmother's immediate ancestry I know little. Of her family, I know that her sister was a member of the Good Shepherd Order and was called, in religion, Sister Charity Southworth. she was stationed at Ford Convent, Liverpool for many years. She died there and is buried in the cemetery there. She was reputed as a very holy person, as also was my grandmother. To have followed their immediate ancestry would have been an interesting study, but the latter generations of Southworths after the family had left Samlesbury Hall are difficult to follow especially since some members emigrated to the USA. There are a good many Southworths in Lancashire who claim relationship to the martyr of whom I will only mention two. One was a member of the Holy Child Society. Her name was Sister Alphonsus McGiveney. She was sister to a well-known actor Owen McGiveney. He portrayed especially Dickens' characters, playing all the parts of a Dickens story. He became known consequently as the world's greatest quick-change artist. He emigrated to the USA and married there. I believe his son still carries on the tradition. His family had a breviary which they claimed had belonged to Blessed John Southworth, and this they donated to Westminster Cathedral, where it is still exhibited in the Sacristy there. Sister Alphonsus had, in some way, been involved with the drawing of Blessed John's face for a leaflet to be sold in Westminster after the martyr's body had been found. She said it had been easy to reconstruct the features since the face was in such good preservation. This is borne out by Father A. Purdie who states in his book: "the head in particular was found to be in a good state of preservation: the skin of the face had taken on a coppery tint, and there was a slight moustache and beard ...à la Richelieu, of chestnut colour." The other person who claimed relationship with the martyr was one named John Southworth whom I met at Westminster. His family came from Blackpool, Lancashire. He was also an actor, and is still living near London. He has a son named John, who is, incidentally, a member of a charitable association founded by myself to help the apostolate in Sweden. The year 1927 In this year I became a novice in the Order of St. Benedict at Fort Augustus Abbey, Scotland. My interest in the martyr was at once renewed because letters and newspaper cuttings began to arrive telling me of a great discovery. It was thought that the body of Father John Southworth had been found buried in Douay, France. The English Catholic authorities had known that this relic had been in the possession of the famous English College founded by Cardinal Allen in Douay, but trace of its burial place in 1793 had been lost. It was on July 15th 1927 that workers constructing new buildings on the site of the old College found, by accident, a leaden coffin about five feet below the ground, which contained a body. The evidence was such that it was clear "that the body found must be that of someone held in high veneration, considering the expense and care bestowed upon the goffining of the remains" (Purdic). No-one in France had an idea that it could be the body of an English martyr. In england, however, it was known from records that the body had been in France since 1656, and had, at one time, been the College's most honoured relic. Records showed also that it had been buried hurriedly in 1793 when France had gone to war with England, and the College had been seized. In 1853 a commission had been appointed to search in Douay for all relics and plate that had been buried there 60 years previously. The searchers had found the silver plate, and must have come within an ace of the discovery of Father Southworth's body, but without success. It had lain buried there then, for 134 year before the workers discovered it in 1927. Father Purdie was sent to Douay by the Cardinal Archbishop, to be present at all the enquiries and investigations as to the identity of the body. It is a most interesting story. Finally, it was proved beyond all doubt that the body found was that of the martyr John Southworth. On December 20th, 1927, it was handed over by the French authorities to Father Purdie as representative of Cardinal Bourne of Westminster. It was brought over and placed in St. Edmund's College, Ware, which is, along with Ushaw, the lineal descendant to the famous College of Douay. This discovery seemed indeed an act of Providence, that it should be found just at this time when the cause for the beatification of the English martyrs was going forward in Rome. The years 1929 and 1930 Father John Southworth was beatified along with many other English and Welsh martyrs by Pope Pius XI in 1929. It was a time of great rejoicing in England and many journeyed to Rome for the historic occasion. For me it meant that Father John was now Blessed John. This event was soon followed by the solemn translation of the body to Westminster Cathedral on May 1st, 1930. Nearly all the bishops of England and Wales were present. It must have been a unique procession: "At the head walked the men of the Guild of the Blessed Sacrament; then came the choir followed by the chaplain and members of the chapter. Eight bishops and two archbishops preceded a foretory covered with a silken pall; the eight bearers were priests ­ two secular, two Benedictines, two Franciscans, and two Jesuits. Behind came the Cardinal Archbishop. The procession entered the crowded Cathedral and at the end, the foretory was placed in the Chapel of St. George and the English Martyrs. Blessed John had returned to Westminster where he had once walked over that very ground ministering to the plague-stricken people. All these vents I followed with the greatest interest from my monastery in Fort Augustus, for I was now a simply-professed member of the Order. I longed that I might one day visit the shrine. The year 1934 I was ordained to the priesthood on Passion Sunday, March 18th, 1934 at Fort Augustus. It was not very long afterwards that I was able to go to London, but merely passing through it. I went to Westminster Cathedral to say Mass, and to have the long-desired opportunity to venerate at the shrine and even say Mass there. However, a very busy lay sacristan told me it was impossible to say Mass at that altar as there were so many visiting priests. I was thoroughly disappointed and told him so, telling him that I was a relation of the martyr and might never get the opportunity again. I said that although I was a Lancashireman (how blessed John would have loved that!) I now lived in the north of Scotland, and who could tell whether I would EVER see London again. He was not very sympathetic and said (perhaps prophetically) "You are a young man yet, and I hope you have plenty of time." Little did I know or realise, how often and in what capacity I was to visit Westminster, and the shrine. On this occasion I venerated the relic for the first time ­ there was a silken handkerchief over the face, and I even asked as a privilege if it could be removed,in order to see the face, but it was refused. The years 1952 onwards Towards the end of the year 1951, it was announced that there was to be an election of a new Abbot of Fort Augustus. At least, the eight year period of office of Abbot Wulstan Knowles was drawing to a close and it was felt that his failing eyesight and general state of health would not allow of his being re-elected for another period. I had not the slightest idea that this would affect my life in any way. I was Prior and headmaster of Carlckemp Priory in North Berwick and was particularly happy there, and by God's help, the foundation which I had founded was thriving. I accordingly wrote to a true friend of the English martyrs, Canon Levin Waring of Catforth, near Preston ­ one whom I admired greatly for his sanctity, and who was a good friend to me. I asked him to offer Mass at his chapel dedicated to the English martyrs and that the intention should be that we would acquire a good Abbot for Fort Augustus. I shall not forget his reply, and by the time it arrived, I was already myself the Abbot. Canon Waring later gave me from his altar a small carved picture of Blessed John bearing at the foot the martyr's family Coat of Arms ­ a chevron between three cross-crosslets, all argent. Not long after my blessing as Abbot (March 12th, 1952) I received a guest at Fort Augustus, who was to become a life-long friend. he was Mgr. Gordon Wheeler, Administrator of Westminster Cathedral. We talked often together, and of course, the subject of my being a relation to Blessed John came up. Naturally, he was most interested and especially since he had a devotion himself to the martyr and had, as Administrator of the Cathedral, charge of the relic. About one year afterwards I received a letter from him asking me if I would preach in Westminster on the anniversary of the martyr¹s death ­ June 28th. There would be a triduum of devotions and sermons as was their custom, and he would be pleased if I preached each night. On the final evening Cardinal Griffin would preside, say the Mass at the shrine, and take part in the procession and the singing of the Te Deum. this was indeed to be a privilege for me and, whilst apprehensive, I gladly accepted. I had never thought of such a privilege coming my way. Mgr. Wheeler had decorated the shrine with the most beautiful and costly flowers. There were very many people present. I remember preaching with enthusiasm. It was all a wonderful experience for me. I preached from the high altar ­ many microphones and loudspeakers. Mgr. Wheeler was very pleased after it all and invited me to preach the following year. I had lunch with the Cardinal one day. But the greatest privilege of all was me to say Mass at the altar of St. George and the English Martyrs. I offered it for Canon Waring whose birthday it was ­ June 28th. I was to have the privilege of preaching at this triduum each year for at lest 10 years, though latterly there were three preachers in all ­ one for each night and the Cardinal ­ now, Cardinal U. Godfrey preached always on the final evening. I had lunch with him each year ­ and he would always be delighted to recall memories of the martyrs and of Lancashire. He had most vivid memory for places and people. I naturally came to love these visits to Westminster, where I had many experiences of people's devotion to Blessed John. I shall relate some of these experiences later. An unexpected development The story of the armorial bearings of the Southworth and Eaves families Shortly after I had become Abbot of Fort Augustus, I was asked if I would choose a Coat of Arms, as was the custom. I refused to have one composed, for I felt that I belonged to the old family of Eyves of Fishwick, Preston. They had had I know, armorial bearings and I might well have a right to use them. The Eyves of (D'Eyves) family had returned a pedigree at the Visitation of Sir William Dugdale, Kt; Norroy King of Arms in the year 1664. The arms were: sable, a chevron between three cross-crosslets all argent. My task was now to find my own pedigree connecting me with this family, but I already had moral certainty of it. The difficulty was to find the time to go into family records. A strange chain of circumstances soon gave me the opportunity. In 1952 I was invited by the Jesuit priests at St. Wilfrid¹s, Preston to take part in two events at their Church. The first was, the celebration of the Preston Guild. This was an event which takes place every 20 years. Every church in Preston was to have at least one prelate, but preferably two, officiating. St. Wilfrid's invited Archbishop thomas Roberts S.J. ex- Archbishop of Bombay, to sing the High Mass, and invite me to preach.The second event was the Consecration of their Church after waiting very many years for this. There were to be about three weeks separating theses events. I accepted both invitations and was offered hospitality by the Jesuit Community for three weeks. Shortly after my arrival there I met Father James Quinn S.J. He had become most interested in Preston history through helping the County Archivist, Mr R. Sharpe France M.A., B.S.A. in writing a small handbook for the Guild Week. Fr. Quinn happened to ask me if I were related to a Miss Jane Eyves of Fishwick whose name he had come across in records, as having harboured a priest at Fishwick Hall during times of persecution. I replied that I knew of this story and felt that without doubt I was of the same family, but could not prove it. He suggested that we should work together in searching records in the short time that lay before us. I was indeed willing, and most glad for the opportunity. We thought we may even have to travel around the Preston district searching in Catholic Church registers. However, we started with the old records of St. Mary's Church, Friargate ­ the oldest Catholic church in Preston. The registers were actually now in St. Wilfrid's archives. There we found, registered among baptisms, a long run-back of my immediate forebears. It did not solve our problem completely, but gave us a wonderful start. Fr. Quinn introduced me to the County Archivist, Mr France with no other intention than just to make his acquaintance. Mr France welcomed me and almost at once, quite unbidden to take up the subject, said that he was interested in the family connection between the Eaveses and Southworths. This was quite astonishing for me and I told him that my grandmother had been a Southworth, but how was he to know that. He replied that of course he did not know this, but was referring to the much older connection of inter-marriage between the two families, both of which were of Samlesbury. This he proved through the Coat of Arms of both families which was the same, and was proof of inter-marriage, and that the two families had become one. He had, in fact already written notes about this in the local Lancashire Evening Post under the pen-name of "John O'Gaunt". This fact became of the greatest importance to me, for it gave me a double relationship to Blessed John. The armorial bearings of both families show that the original family of Samlesbury had been D'EYVAS or DEWYAS or DEYVAS or D'EWES, later spelled EYVES, and later still EAVES. From the Chetham Society publications Vol 98 we know that sometime before 8th July1325, Sir Gilbert de Sotheworth married ALICE D'EVYAS, the heiress of the Samlesbury family. The Southworths, who originated in the hamlet of Southworth, Winwick, near Warrington had not a coat of arms at this time. However, when he married Alice D'Eyvas he brought to the Southworths the Samlesbury Estate, and adopted for his arms those of the D'Eyvas family with the colours reversed, and quartered them with the Samlesbury Arms to give the following results: de Sothworth (graphic of de Sothworth arms to be redrawn and inserted here)

D'EYVAS of FISHWICK'S ARMS

Chetham's Society publications Vol. 98 writes of the Southworth family: "They owed their importance to their acquisition by marriage of manorial rights in Samlesbury in the Hundreds of Blackburn,. They entered their arms at the Visitations of 1567 and 1664." Among the deeds of the Leghs of Lyme, Cheshire seals of Gilbert de Sothworth 1347 and of Matthew de Sothworth 1394 have been found, each bearing on a shield a chevron between three crosses patonce. In a roll of arms of the reign of Richard II (1374-1399) edited by Thomas Williment (number 316) the coat of (sic) Mons Thomas Southworth is given as: sable, a chevron between three crosses patonce argent. Despite the quartering of the arms, one often sees the coat of arms of the Southworths as that of the original D'EYVAS arms, viz: sable, a chevron between three cross-crosslets, all argent. (See frontispiece of the book blessed John Southworth by Rev. Albert Purdie. I have seen it depicted alongside Blessed John's Statue. The genealogy of Blessed John would be the reason for this: So far as I have discovered this genealogy was as follows: Gospatrick (c.1185) Sir William de Samlesbury = Avine d. of William de Notton | Cecily =John D'EYVAS (or D'EWAS) Son of Nicholas D'Eyvas. m. before 13 april 1259. Arms: Sable, a chevron between three cross crosslets, argent. | Alice=Sir Gilbert de Sothworth. m. before 8 July 1325. Living in 1363. Arms: Quarterly,first and fourth,argent a chevron between three cross-crosslets sable: second and third, sable a chevron between three cross-crosslets argent. | Sir John de Southworth=Margaret, d. of Sir Richard de Hoghton. | Sir Thomas de Southworth=Johan, d. of Sir John de Bothe of Barton. | Sir Gilbert de Southworth. Killed at Agincourt | The grandson of Sir Gilbert de Southworth (killed at Agincourt 1415) was: | Sir John Southworth died 1517 (was at Flodden field 1513)=Helen d. of Sir Richard Langton Baron of Newton | Sir Thomas Southworth (Knighted in 1523, Died 1546)=2nd Margery d. of thomas Butler of Bewsey. | Sir John Southworth (Knighted in Scotland 1547. died 1595. He harboured Ven. Edmund Campion)=Mary, d. of Sir richard Asheton of Middleton. | Seven children: Thomas; Richard; Michael; Gilbert; Leonard; John; Christopher (the last two both priests) Thomas (from previous line) | John=Jane, d. of Sir Richard Shireburn of Stonyhurst | Thomas. Succeeded to the Old Hall in 1597. To a junior branch of this family belonged the Martyr, St John Southworth, born 1592 ­ martyred at Tyburn 28 June 1654. for a more detailed genealogy see: A History of Samlesbury by Robert Eaton. (J. Dickinson, printers, Blackburn). ---- having established that the Southworth and Eaves family, or rather D'Eyves family, had the same coat of arms, I now tuned my attention to the Eyves family of Fishwick Hall to ascertain if I had a claim to this old coat of arms. In this, I was assisted by Father Quinn S.J. and particularly by a friend and expert in Heraldry ­ Mgr. David McRoberts, then of St. Peter's College, Cardross. Through him I approached Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, the Lord Lyon King of Arms in Scotland. I based my claim to matriculate on these arms through the pedigree which the Eyves family of Fishwick Hall, Preston, had returned at Dugdale's Visitation of Lancashire in 1664. The Catholic Record Society Vol 6. records it thus: THOMAS EYVES (latterly spelt EAVES) of fishwick Hall returned a pedigree at the Visitation of 1664, being then at the age of forty. He married Margery, daughter of Ralph Sherdley of Farington, and his son RICHARD, was born in 1659. Thomas was still a recusant of Fishwick in 1679-82, but soon after that date the family parted with Fishwick Hall. they had been seated there for many generations and were recusants throughout. The father of Thomas of the text, RICHARD Eyves, lost his life during the civil wars in 1664. By his wife Jane, daughter of Richard Grimshaw of Clayton Hall, he had two younger sons and two daughters: JAMES, father of Dom Thomas Eyves, O.S.B. born 1659 died 1747, and probably of Dame Mary Eyves O.S.B. of Cambrai who died in 1732; OSWALD who settled at Ashton-super- Ribble, whose will was proved in 1715; Anne wife of Thomas Dale of Walton; and Jane, wife of William Shaw of Preston. OSWALD, whose widow Elizabeth was a catholic non-juror in 1717, had two sons OSWALD of Ashton, and ROBERT. The former was the father of Dom Oswald Eyves (or EAVES) born 1739 who died at Brownedge in 1793; JAMES, ELLEN (word unclear!) and ANNE, coheiress to her brothers who married John ffrance of Greaves Town. The name OSWALD, and also RICHARD recur constantly in the pedigree, which is almost a proof in itself of the connection between these generations and my own. However, the pedigree of 1664 as recorded by Sir William Dugdale is still more interesting. It is recorded thus: (***The Eaves website has the following LRO document****) EYVES OF FISHWICKE: | RAPHE EYVES. | RICHARD EYVES=m.elizabeth, d. of ...BREWER. | RICHARD EYVES=Margaret, d. of Gilbert CUERDALE. | RAPHE EYVES=d. of Richard RISHTON OF Sporth. | RICHARD EYVES of Fishwicke b. 1664=Jane, d. of Nicholas GRIMSHAW (Grimshagh) | THOMAS, aged 40 on 14/3/1664=Margery, of Ralph Sherdley of Ffarington plus two further brothers and a sister: JAMES EYVES. OSWALD EYVES. ANNE m.Thomas Dale Thomas and Margery had two children: RICHARD EYVES (aged 5 pm 14/3/1664) and JANE EYVES. The pedigree of 1664 ends here, but we can continue it through the Catholic Record Society thus: OSWALD EAVES (above) son of Richard of fishwicke died 1664 | Two sons: James Eyves (born 27/7/1632) and OSWALD EYVES of Ashton (Will proved 1715)=elizabeth d. of .... BRUERE of Ribbleton James (above) had two children: THOMAS, O.S.B. (1659-1714) and MARY, O.S.B. (died 1732). OSWALD EYVES of Ashton and Elizabeth had two sons and two daughters: OSWALD, O.S.B. (1739-1793); JAMES (died young); ELLEN (died young); ANNE, m. John ffrance of Greaves Town. There are several notes on the above in Catholic Record society (Vol 23) from which I quote: Dom Oswald EYVES (or Eaves) ... born in 1739 ... professed at Dieulward in 1755, was at Cuerdon 1764-80, and Brownedge 1786 till death on Oct. 15th, 1793 ... his sister ANNE, eventual heiress to the Eyves family upon his death married John ffrance of Greaves Town in Ashton=on=Ribble, gent; who representative of a very ancient family from which descended the ffrances of Little Eccleston Hall and Rawcliffe Hall, whose grandson and namesake of Greaves Town, married Oct 25th 1826 Mary, daughter of John Gillow of Salwick Hall, gent. The EYVES family of Fishwicke Hall always retained the Faith and suffered severely in consequence. They intermarried with many families of distinction as shown in the pedigree returned at Dugdale's Visitation. Mass was very regularly said in the domestic chapel of Fishwick Hall from the reign of Elizabeth. It was reported to the privy council in 1586 that Sir Evan Banister, a Marian priest of Preston was being harboured by Mistress JANE EYVES. The family ceased to reside at Fishwick Hall towards the close of the 17th century. (CRS vol 23). The task before me had been to link up myself and my immediate relatives with these generations of Eyves of Fishwick Hall, later of Ashton-on-Ribble. With the help of records of St. Mary's Church, Preston and records kept in the Harris Library at Preston, I was able to do this. Mgr. David McRoberts, mentioned earlier, at length made out the petition for me to the Lord Lyon King of Arms, and we were able to send the following invaluable letter from the County Archivist of Lancashire, who had been kept informed throughout. To: The Rt. Hon. the Lord Lyon King of Arms, court of the Lord Lyon, HM Register house, Edinburgh. From: Lancashire Record Office, county Hall, PRESTON. Our ref: U 33. 5th april 1954 May it please you Lordship, From evidence brought before me in records of the Lancashire family of EAVES (formerly spelled D'EYVAS and later EYVES), first residing in Samlesbury and then at Fishwick Hall near Preston, Lancashire, I conclude the the Right Rev. Dom Oswald Eaves, Abbot of St. Benedict's Abbey at Fort Augustus in Scotland, has right to lay claim to that Coat of Arms which was declared by the Eyves family at the visitation of Sir William Dugdale, Norroy King of Arms, to Lancashire in 1664, and which had belonged to the family of D'Evyas at a much earlier date: viz. - Sable a chevron between three cross-crosslets argent. (Vide Chetham Society, Old series Vol LXXXV Eyves of Fishwicke). I beg to remain, Your Lordship¹s obedient servant, (signed) R. Sharpe France. County Archivist of Lancashire. In petitioning I had to suggest, as happens in all cases, where one is not the eldest son of the eldest son etc, a difference ... "suitable to my circumstances". We suggested accordingly that the Benedictine corbic (or raven) should be placed on the chevron. My petition was granted, and fittingly enough the parchment, of which I here show a reproduction, arrived on the day I celebrated the silver jubilee of my priesthood march 18th 1959. The parchment is beautifully and ornamentally painted and bears the seal of the lord Lyon King of Arms. At the public dinner to mark the occasion of my jubilee, both the new Arms of the Abbey connecting us with the Abbeys of Raisbon and Lambspring) and my own arms as Abbot arrived on the same day and were exhibited publicly. They are now place in the monastic Library at Fort August Abbey. [Now in the Catholic Archives in Edinburgh.] I was indeed proud to have the same Coat of Arms as Blessed John Sothworth, thereby proving beyond doubt the close relationship between our two families. May we now have his patronage as a Saint. (Graphic to be inserted here of the Abbot's coat of arms and detail of scroll) To clarify the above genealogy, and to extend it to the members of the present generation, I will tabulate it, with the hope that it may arouse interest for the future, and that even further research may be made. Oswald Eaves b. 1743=Agnes Worden | Two sons Richard b 1779; Peter b 1781=Agnes Baldwin | Oswald b 1802=Alice Parker | Richard b 1830=Margaret Southworth | Three sons, one daughter: Mary Walburga b 1860; Joseph Oswald b 1864; Thomas b 1867; Edward b 1870. Of the above Joseph Oswald b 1864 had four children: Joseph Richard b 1892; Mary Teresa b 1894; dorothy b 1902; John Gerard Oswald O.S.B. Abbot b 1909. Of the above Joseph Richard b 1892 had two children: John Oswald (1920-1942 killed in 2nd World War) and Joseph. Present day links with the past a personal note in connection with the Eyves (or Eaves) genealogy is that Dom Oswald Eaves O.S.B. (born 1739, died 1793) was born in Preston. He was educated from young age at Dieulounrd in France (of which Ampleforth Abbey, York is the lineal descendant). As a very young priest (25 years old) he came home to serve the mission in Lancashire, and was at LITTLE MOSNA and CUERDON, near Preston. In 1780 he removed this mission to BROWNEDGE, where there must have been a missionary station already, for in 1774 bishop Walton confirmed 212 persons at BARM BRIDGE (Bamber Bridge) or Brownedge. Dom Oswald served this mission for the next 13 years and the records state that he died suddenly on October 15th 1793. I have heard it said by tradition that he was thrown from his horse whilst on his missionary duties. I have a record of his burial from the Preston parish Register which reads: "Buried in October 1793. Oswald Eaves a Romish Priest the 17th day." A memoir of mine is that my mother once told me that before my birth and not long after my parents had come to live in Bamber Bridge from Preston, an old Benedictine priest, Fr. Fozzi had welcomed my father saying "Welcome back to Brownedge, Oswald Eaves". that name had not been know in the parish since its first parish priest. I was born in the parish of Brownedge in 1909. I was baptised in the Church there, and received all the first sacraments there, including Confirmation from Bishop John Vaughan, brother of the Cardinal. In 1934, I returned there to sing my first Mass as a priest. In 1952, I again returned to sing my first pontifical mass as Abbot. The family graves are in the cemetery there ­ and there lie the bodies of my parents, sisters and brother, and a nephew John Oswald. One thinks of these words now: "Welcome back to Brownedge, Oswald Eaves." Memoirs connected with Blessed John Southworth As stated earlier I preached at Westminster Cathedral around the anniversary of the Saint ­ june 28th ­ over a period of 10 years. In February 1960 I visited my good friend Mgr. Gordon Wheeler at the cathedral just after I had ceased to hold office at Fort Augustus, and it was from there that I received an unusual call to Sweden by bishop Nelson O.S.B. of Stockholm. I have written up the details of this call elsewhere, but the circumstances were such that I always attributed the providential side of it all ­ to the instrumentality of Blessed John. I had asked him for help in the new circumstances in which I was placed. Within three days I found myself at Stockholm Airport with the bishop to welcome me. he introduced me to Archbishop Martin Lucas, the newly appointed Apostolic Delegate to Scandinavia. After a short stay with them both, they hardly gave me any alternative ­ they told me to return to Britain, pack up my few belongings and come to take up work in Sweden. I did this, and have now worked for 10 years in this interesting apostolate. Each year afterwards I returned to England and Westminster, and preached at the shrine. It was a visit of thanksgiving. However, in 1966, Mgr G. Wheeler was appointed bishop of Middlesbury's co-adjutor, and in 1968 Bishop of Leeds. I visit him each year and we recall the happy days around the shrine of Blessed John. no doubt I shall soon be present at the celebrations in the Cathedral for the canonisation, for I am going to Rome with the Westminster pilgrimage, led by Cardinal Heenan, and shall return to Westminster.

Oswald Eaves meeting Pope Paul VI