Thomas Welbourne (Welbourn) (born Hutton Buscel, North Riding of Yorkshire - executed at

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, 1 August 1605) was an English

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teacher. He is a Catholic martyr,

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in 1929.

Life

All that is known about Welbourne comes from details collected by

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, in early Catholic catalogues of martyrs:

Thomas Welbourne was a school-master, a native of Kitenbusheli.e.
Hutton Buscel Hutton Buscel is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England. According to the 2011 UK census, Hutton Buscel parish had a population of 320, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 314. History Hu ...
. in Yorkshire; and John Fulthering was a layman of the same county, who being zealous Catholics, and industrious in exhorting some of their neighbours to embrace the Catholic faith, were upon that account arraigned and condemned to suffer as in cases of high treason (II, 12).

Fellow Yorkshireman, Ven John Fulthering, was executed with Thomas Welbourne. Neither name occurs in

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's ''Yorkshire Catholics in 1604''.

References

, ''Memoirs of Missionary Priests (London, 1741–42); *Wilson, ''Martyrologe'' (s.l., 1608); *Worthington, ''Catalogues'' (1608 and 1614)

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