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Line 1: {{Short description\|English Roman Catholic antiquary, historian and bio-bibliographer}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=April 2022}} '''Joseph Gillow''' (5 October 1850 in, [[Preston, Lancashire]] – 17 March 1921 in, [[Hale, Greater Manchester\|Westholme, Hale, Cheshire]]) was an [[England\|English]] [[Roman Catholic]] [[antiquary]], historian and bio-bibliographer, "the [[Plutarch]] of the English Catholics".<ref>Thomas Bridgett, in ''The Catholic ''Who's Who and Yearbook'', 1908; quoted in ''ODNB''.</ref> ==Biography== Born in [[Frenchwood House, [[Lancashire]],<ref name="auto">{{Cite ODNB\|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-41282\|title=Gillow, Joseph (1850–1921), biographical lexicographer and genealogist\|year=2004\|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/41282}}</ref> to a [[recusancy\|recusant]] English Roman Catholic family able to trace an uninterrupted pedigree back to [[Conishead Priory]] in 1325, Gillow was the son of a [[magistrate]], Joseph Gillow (1801-1872), and his wife, Jane Haydock (1805-1872), a descendant of [[Christopher Haydock]], a Lancashire politician and a member of another prominent recusant English Roman Catholic family, the [[Haydocks of [[Lea, Lancashire\|Cottam]].<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/haydock-christopher-1499-1566-or-later\|title=HAYDOCK, Christopher (by 1499-1566 or later), of Preston, Lancs. \| History of Parliament Online\|website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}}</ref> Joseph Gillow was educated at [[Sedgley Park School, Wolverhampton]] (1862-1863) and [[St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw]] (1864-1866), where his brothers and uncles had studied for the priesthood.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://supremacyandsurvival.blogspot.com/2016/03/william-haydock-of-whalley-abbey.html\|title=Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: William Haydock of Whalley Abbey\|first=Stephanie A.\|last=Mann\|date=March 12, 2016}}</ref> At Ushaw, Gillow developed an abiding interest in Lancashire Catholicism, resulting in the publication of ''[[The Tyldesley Diary]]'' in 1873.<ref name="auto"/> Joseph Gillow was educated at [[Sedgley Park School, Wolverhampton]] (1862-1863) and [[St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw]] (1864-1866), where his brothers and uncles had studied for the priesthood.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://supremacyandsurvival.blogspot.com/2016/03/william-haydock-of-whalley-abbey.html\|title=Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: William Haydock of Whalley Abbey\|first=Stephanie A.\|last=Mann\|date=March 12, 2016}}</ref> At Ushaw, Gillow developed an abiding interest in Lancashire Catholicism, resulting in the publication of ''[[The Tyldesley Diary]]'' in 1873.<ref name="auto"/> In 1878 Gillow married Eleanor McKenna, daughter of John McKenna, of [[Dunham Massey Hall]],<ref name="auto"/> with whom he had seven children.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/gillow/genealogy/tree/1a.shtml\|title=Gillow Family Tree : Gillow Genealogy - Keith Gillow's Home Page\|website=people.maths.ox.ac.uk}}</ref> In marrying into the McKennas, Gillow secured himself a private income which allowed him to pursue his antiquarian interests.<ref name="odnb">J.F.X. Bevan, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/articles41282 ‘Gillow, Joseph (1850–1921)’], ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', Oxford University Press, 2004<!-- ISBN needed -->; accessed 1 August 2008</ref>▼ ▲In 1878 Gillow married Eleanor McKenna, daughter of John McKenna, of [[Dunham Massey Hall]],<ref name="auto"/> with whom he had seven children.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/gillow/genealogy/tree/1a.shtml\|title=Gillow Family Tree : Gillow Genealogy - Keith Gillow's Home Page\|website=people.maths.ox.ac.uk}}</ref> In marrying into the McKennas, Gillow secured himself a private income which allowed him to pursue his antiquarian interests.<ref name="odnb">J.F.X. Bevan, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/articles41282 ‘Gillow, Joseph (1850–1921)’], ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', Oxford University Press, 2004<!-- ISBN needed -->; accessed 1 August 2008</ref> Gillow published various researches into the history of Roman Catholicism in [[Lancashire]], but his greatest achievement was the ''[[A Literary and Biographical History, or Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics : from the Breach with Rome, in 1534, to the Present Time]]'' (5 vols, 1885-1902), available in Google Books. To fit his material into the five volumes allotted him by his publishers, he needed to abbreviate the later volumes.<ref name="odnb"/> [[Cardinal Gasquet]] described the dictionary as a ‘veritable storehouse of information’, however, until 1986, no index was available.<ref>Bevan, J. F. X., ''Index and finding list to the bibliographical dictionary'', 1986</ref>▼ ▲Gillow published various researches into the history of Roman Catholicism in [[Lancashire]], but his greatest achievement was ~~the~~ ''[[A Literary and Biographical History, or Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics : from the Breach with Rome, in 1534, to the Present Time]]'' (5 vols, 1885-1902), available in Google Books. To fit his material into the five volumes allotted to him by his publishers, he needed to abbreviate the later volumes.<ref name="odnb"/> [[Cardinal Gasquet]] described the dictionary as a ‘veritable storehouse of information’, however, until 1986, no index was available.<ref>Bevan, J. F. X., ''Index and finding list to the bibliographical dictionary'', 1986</ref> [[Cardinal Gasquet]] described the dictionary as a ‘veritable storehouse of information’, however, until 1986, no index was available.<ref>Bevan, J. F. X., ''Index and finding list to the bibliographical dictionary'', 1986</ref> Gillow was appointed honorary recorder of the [[Catholic Record Society]] at its foundation in 1904, and was a frequent contributor.<ref>[http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/crs/records.htm ''Catholic Records'' Volume List 1-76] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828023043/http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/crs/records.htm \|date=2008-08-28 }}, catholic-history.org.uk; accessed 21 October 2014.</ref> Line 13 ⟶ 18: ==Other works== * [https://issuu.com/tcrs/docs/volume4 'Lord Burghley's Map of Lancashire', ''Miscellanea of the Catholic Record Society, 4'' (London, 1907), pp. 162-216 and frontispiece] * ''[[The Tyldseley Diary]]'', (editor) * ''[[The Haydock Papers]]'' * ''St. Thomas Priory: the Story of a Staffordshire Mission'' * ''[[Lancashire Recusants]]'' * ''A Catalogue of the Martyrs in Englande for Profession of the Catholique Faith since the yeare of Our Lord 1535''<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K8sYAAAAYAAJ&q=Joseph+Gillow&pg=PA171\|title=The Catholic Who's who and Yearbook\|first=Sir Francis Cowley\|last=Burnand\|date=February 12, 1908\|publisher=Burns & Oates\|via=Google Books}}</ref> Line 36 ⟶ 41: {{wikisource-author}} * {{Internet Archive author \|sname=Joseph Gillow}} * {{worldcat id\|lccn-n86-144472}} * {{OL author}} Line 50 ⟶ 54: [[Category:Writers from Preston, Lancashire]] [[Category:Alumni of Ushaw College]] [[Category:Clergy from Preston, ~~Lancashire‎~~Lancashire]] [[Category:19th-century English historians]] [[Category:20th-century English historians]]