South Yorkshire Times, November 17th 1933
Dean Donkers
Preferment for Wath Priest
The Rev. W. Donkers of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, Wath, has been appointed by the Bishop of Leeds to superintend the parishes of Denaby, Goldthorpe, Wath. Cudworth, Hemsworth, Moorthorpe, and Woodlands, which have been taken from the Doncaster Deanery to form a Wath Deanery of which Father Donkers becomes Dean.
He will still continue his parochial duties at Wath.
Dean Donkers is a native of Holland and was trained for the Catholic priesthood at Roulers (Belgium). He was ordained at Leeds in 1899, and was appointed priest at Huddersfield where he stayed for nearly thirteen years. He was then transferred to Mortomley. where he remained until appointed to Wath in 1930 on the death of Father Morrisey.
His brother is priest at Woodlands, one of the parishes now under the care of Dean Donkers.