Past Rectors/Curates St Mary's Parish Clergy Rectors
1847 - 1851 Rev. George Gibson1851 - 1855 Canon Richard Gillow1855 - 1859 Rev. John Doherty1859 - 1865 Rev. John Aylward1865 - 1868 Rev. Nicholas Molloy1868 - 1872 Rev. James Singleton1872 - 1888 Rev. John Hawksworth1888 - 1897 Canon William Gordon1897 - 1932 Mgr. Canon Thomas Stanislaus Crank1932 - 1939 Dr. Thomas Edward Flynn (Later Bishop of Lancaster)1939 - 1967 Canon Joseph Cartmell1968 - 1985 Mgr. Charles Jackson1985 - 1989 Mgr. Peter Cookson1989 - 2004 Canon Kevin Mullen2004 - 2006 Rev. Gerard Cobham2006 - Rev. Francis Marsden CURATES1851 - 1852Rev. Lawrence Lucas
Rev. Lawrence Lucas1852 - 1854Rev. Richard Shea
Rev. Richard Shea1854 (Feb/Sept) Rev. George Cooper
1854 - 1855Rev. John Doherty
Rev. John Doherty1858 - 1859Rev. John Aylward
Rev. John Aylward1859 - 1867Rev. John O'Meara
Rev. John O'Meara1867 - 1869Rev. Edward Caffrey
Rev. Edward Caffrey1869 - 1870Rev. Maurice Cunningham
Rev. Maurice Cunningham1870 - 1877Rev. James Carroll
Rev. James Carroll1878 - 1881 Rev. John Hardman
Rev. John Hardman1878(Apl/Oct) Rev. Thomas Dawson
1881 - 1884 Rev. Peter Joseph Kane
1884 - 1885 Rev. Mortimer O'Connor
1885 - 1888 Rev. William Moore
1888 - 1889 Rev. Francis Cahill
1889 - 1894 Rev. John Hardman
1894 - 1895 Rev. James Whiteley
1895 - 1898 Rev. John Donohue
1898 - 1905 Rev. Charles E. Slater
1905 - 1913 Rev. Herbert Horrabin
1912 - 1923 Rev. Thomas Holden
1913 - 1916 Rev. William Carroll
1917 - 1918 Rev. George Gorman
1918 - 1921Rev. Edmund Clark
Rev. Edmund Clark1919 Rev. Thomas J. Rigby
Rev. Thomas J. Rigby1921 - 1922Rev. Richard Billsborrow
Rev. Richard Billsborrow1922 Rev. Ernest Gray
Rev. Ernest Gray1922 - 1923Rev. Joseph Moss
Rev. Joseph Moss1923 - 1925Rev. Charles Joseph McCabe
Rev. Charles Joseph McCabe1925 - 1939Rev. Walter P. Skehan
Rev. Walter P. Skehan1938 - 1942Rev. Joseph Kelly
Rev. Joseph Kelly1939 - 1951Rev. John Clayton
Rev. John Clayton1942 - 1960Rev. Martin Lydon
Rev. Martin Lydon1951 - 1955Rev. John Kennedy
Rev. John Kennedy1956 - 1962Rev. Kenneth Smith
Rev. Kenneth Smith1960 - 1963Rev. Raymond Walker
Rev. Raymond Walker1962 - 1969Rev. John D'Arcy
Rev. John D'Arcy1965 - 1973Rev. John Shennan
Rev. John Shennan1969 - 1973Rev. Terrance Dooley
Rev. Terrance Dooley1973 - 1976Rev. Thomas Delaney
Rev. Thomas Delaney1976 - 1981Rev. Robert Starkey
Rev. Robert Starkey1981 - 1988Rev. Peter Devlin
Rev. Peter Devlin1988 - 1995Rev. Aidan McAteer
Rev. Aidan McAteer1995 - 1995Rev. Barry Allister
Rev. Barry Allister1995 - 1997Rev. Kenneth Hyde
Rev. Kenneth Hyde1997 - 1998Rev. Edward O'Toole
Rev. Edward O'Toole 
