Roger Paul THOMPSON
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1 Roger Paul THOMPSON 1 [21].
2 John Bevis THOMPSON [12].
4 Arthur Wilfrid THOMPSON 2 (1878-1972) [32]. Born 27 Jun 1878, Ewhurst, Sussex. 2 Marr Alice Eliza Emma BEVIS 9 Jun 1920, St Jude, Portsmouth, Hampshire. 3 Died 1972, Havant.
AWT was staioned in Kirkwall, Orkney in 1916, in 1918/19 he developed pleurosy and was invadided down to warmer climes in Campbelltown (Nairn or Argyle & Bute?) before finally coming down to Havant, Hampshire. 4
8 Thomas THOMPSON 5 (1830-1901) [44]. Born 3 Apr 1830, St Johns Chapel, Stanhope, Durham. 6 Marr Jane FULLER 9 Aug 1865, Up Clatford, Andover. 7 Died 5 May 1901, Manor Park Road, Willesden, London - Rupture of right Auricle of Heart. 8 Buried 9 May 1901, The quiet God's acre of Kingsbury cum Neasden Churchyard. 9
Methodists circuits where Thomas Thompson was stationed:
THOMPSON, THOMAS.
1856 Wigton, &c. 1
1857 Arbroath, &c. 1
1858 Clitheroe 1
1859 Ludlow 1
1860 Hinckley 1
1861 Bramley 1
1862 Andover 2
1864 Salisbury 2
1866 Shaftesbury 2
1868 Glastonbury 3
1871 Helmsley 2
1873 Callington 3
1876 Colchester 1
1877 Staplecross 3
1880 Alton 3
1883 Dunster 2
1885 Shepton-Mallet 3
1888 Bridgend 3
1891 Wantage 3
1894 Bourne 3
TT superannuated from Ashburton in or around 1899 - the above list is incomplete as it was only made up to 1896 - it is described as follows
An alphabetical arrangement of all the Wesleyan Methodist ministers and preachers on trail in connexion with the British and Irish Conferences. also, a list of the presidents of the Conference from 1791 to 1892; and an alphabetical list of the ministers who have died in the work (1896)
The total mileage from start (Ireshopeburn) to finish (Willesden) is 2999.4 miles on todays roads - I am sure it fas far longer on the old roads! plus the amount of travelling around the various Circuits..... I bet he travelled a fair few thousand miles more....
http://www.archive.org/stream/alphabeticalarra00hilliala/al phabeticalarra00hilliala_djvu.txt.
The Coming of Methodism to Weardale
By H.K. (1898)
[original liberally illustrated with black-and-white photographs -- see below]
[visual emphasis added e.g. Watson]
The first Methodist preacher who visited Weardale was Christopher Hopper. Wesley says that in 1749 Mr. Hopper and John Brown came and preached among them. He adds that Mr. Hopper, though meeting with no encouragement at his first appearance in the dale, made several visits in the ensuing spring and summer. It was not, however, until the autumn of that same year that the great work of conversion began. Four then found peace with God and agreed to meet together. At the Christmas following there was another incursion of Methodist preachers. Hopper had crossed over the mountains from Allendale, and it was from the same quarter that the two exhorters set out. Their coming was quite dramatic, and the tradition of it has perhaps for that reason been cherished. Before entering the dale they knelt down in the snow and earnestly besought the Lord that He would incline some person, who was worthy, to receive them into his house. At the first house where they called they were bidden welcome, and they stayed there four days. Wesley adds, "Their word was with power, so that many were convinced, and some converted to God. One of these exhorters was Jacob Rowell. They continued their visits, at intervals, all winter. In the beginning of summer about twenty lively, steady people were joined together. From that time they gradually increased to thirty-five, and continued about that number for ten years. There was then a remarkable revival among them, by means of Samuel Meggot, so that they increased to eighty; but, four years since (this was written in 1772) they were reduced to sixty-three. From that time they increased again, and were, in August, 1772, an hundred and twenty."
It was rough work travelling up and down the dales and across the mountains in those days. Mr. George Story, who was Samuel Meggot's colleague in the circuit, says, "I exerted myself much above my strength both in preaching and travelling, often venturing in tempestuous weather over those dreary fells when even the mountaineers themselves durst not. I was frequently in danger of being swallowed up in the bogs, or carried away by the torrents. Sometimes I have rode over valleys where the snow was eight or ten feet deep, for two or three furlongs together." And then he adds, "When the danger was most imminent, I not only found a calm resignation, but a solid rejoicing in the God of my salvation."
These early Methodist preachers had a great many discouragements, as we may gather from the old records. There were dull times then, as now, and long periods when the people did not get converted, and sometimes disaster in the societies, and quarrelling and the outbreak of wild fanaticism that would not be controlled, and dry-rot in the classes. But then, ever and anon, there came a time of refreshing, when the Divine power descended on the assembly, and people dropped down one after the other, crying for mercy, and the work revived, and spread through the dale, and the society was doubled, and God made His servants to understand that they were not forsaken and that their work was not a failure.
Mr. Christopher Hopper's account differs in certain material respects from Wesley's. It seems certain that there was a still earlier visit in 1748, and that this was really the beginning of Methodism in Weardale. Mr. Thompson, who, judging from the notes he has given me, has tested everything by most careful inquiry up and down the dale, where traditions are consistent and likely to be reliable,, because the people have intermarried and the facts of local history have come down from father to son - Mr. Thompson says that Christopher Hopper was the first Methodist preacher who visited the dale, that he came in 1748, and that he crossed over from Allendale.
This Christopher Hopper was the apostle of Methodism through a large section of the North country. We meet the abiding fruits of his work far and near around Newcastle, in co. Durham, and in Lancashire, Cheshire, and elsewhere, as far as Bristol. He was a Durham man, born at Low Coalburne, in the parish of Ryton, in 1722. A farmer's son, through the years of his early youth he lived a wild, rollicking life. It was through the coming of John Wesley to Newcastle-upon-Tyne that he became converted. He was one of the earliest of the Methodist preachers, making his own "round," without stipend or steward, going forth at his own charges, enduring hardness, passing not infrequently through tornadoes of persecution, and not strange to fightings within. Here is a glimpse - and it refers to the very year (1748) with which we are concerned - of the sorrows through which these heroic pioneers of Methodism passed. "My little substance," he writes, "soon failed, and I saw nothing before me but beggary and great afflictions. Sometimes I was carried above all earthly objects, and had a comfortable view of the heavenly country. At other times I was much depressed, and I could see nothing but poverty and distress." It must be remembered that he was a married man, and that in the interests of the preaching, at a time when there was no income for any preacher, he had given up his school and come to the dales - led by the good hand of God as surely as was St. Paul when he went forth into the mountains of Asia Minor.
"I well remember," he adds, "once, on the top of a cold mountain, in a violent storm of snow, when the congealed flakes covered me with a white mantle, Satan assaulted me, and pushed me hard to return to my school, or some other business to secure bread. I staggered through unbelief, and almost yielded to the tempter. But as the attack was sudden, so the battle was soon over. The Lord sent these words to my heart, like lightning. 'When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye anything ? And they said, Nothing, Lord.' I answered with a loud voice, 'Nothing, Lord ! Nothing, Lord !' All my doubts and fears vanished in a moment, and I went on my way rejoicing !
" 'Constrain'd to cry by love Divine,
My God, Thou art for ever mine.' "
As I have followed in the footsteps of Christopher Hopper, and stood on the very spot where he opened the Methodist commission in Weardale, I have wondered at the story of the heroic life work of these pioneer preachers - literally without purse or scrip, absolutely cast on the fidelity of their God. If any village Methodist should be harassed by an empty-headed Ritualistic curate with the taunt that Methodism is a schism and no part of the true Church of Jesus Christ, let him take a dose of Christopher Hopper's Journal. He will find it in the "Lives of the Early Methodist Preachers." And then let him ask himself, and the devil, and the curate, and anybody and everybody who tries to stand between him and his God, "Was not this Methodist preaching of God ?" If ever a Church could trace up the history of its founding to the right hand of the Most High, to the Spirit of God who shapes all human ends to Divine purposes, it is the Church of the Wesleys and Christopher Hopper and the heroes of the great Dales in the North Country. The young Methodists of to-day in all the Dales, from Wharfedale to Weardale, have reason to be proud of their ancestry.
In 1748 Christopher Hopper pitched his preaching tent in Allendale, forming, straight out of hand, four societies. "In the latter end of this year," he says, "I visited Weardale. Some of the brethren attended me from Allendale.
"It was in a storm of snow that we crossed the quagmires and enormous mountains. When we came into the dale we met with a very cold reception. The enemy had barricaded the place, and made his bulwarks strong. But the Lord made way for His troops. He opened the heart of a poor Scotch shepherd to receive us into his little thatched cabin, where we lodged all night.
"The next day I preached under the walls of an old castle. A few children and two or three old women attended, who looked hard at us. When I had done we followed them into their houses, and talked freely to them in their own language, about the kingdom of God. They heard and obeyed the Gospel. The next evening I had a large congregation, who heard with much attention, and received the Word gladly. Some time after I preached in private houses, alehouses, cockpits, or wherever I could find a door open. The fire then spread from heart to heart, and God was glorified.
On this account I may make two remarks. The latter portion refers, as it seems to us, to the work done by Christopher Hopper, which Wesley describes in his Journals and which all lay within the year 1749. For he says distinctly it was at "the latter end of the year 1749 I left the Dales and the dear children God had given me." Secondly, we can identify the place at which the preaching first began. It was "under the walls of an old castle." This locates it at Westgate - the village on the railway before you reach "St. John's Chapel." The old castle has vanished, leaving only mounds behind. But, by diligent inquiry on the spot, Mr. Hunter (the superintendent minister) and Mr. Thompson enabled me to discover the very spot on which Christopher Hopper must have stood - the spot that fulfils all the conditions, and the only one that does so. A fragment of the wall remains, overgrown now by a hedgerow, and immediately opposite there is an alley of very old cottage houses, at the end of which I set up the camera, and whilst my friends stood where they could command the houses - looking, by a curious coincidence, into the faces of "a few children and two or three old women," I took an excellent photograph, which was developed quite successfully one night in our Conference home at Hull. And then, alas, two accidents befell the negative, and it was smashed beyond recovery. However, we now know the very place where Weardale Methodism was born, and fortunately, in the landscape photograph of Westgate, taken by the side of the mill stream that rushes down to the Wear, the old houses in front of which Christopher Hopper preached are included.
The story of Methodism in Westgate would itself make a chapter in WINTER NUMBER, a chapter which my friend, the Rev. J. Conder Nattrass, who is proud to think of Westgate as his ancestral home, ought some day to write. There is a tradition in Weardale, so Mr. Thompson informs me, that Mr. Hopper was so pleased with the kind reception he met with from the people of the dale on his first visits, that subsequently when coming over from Cumberland, as soon as he reached the boundary between the counties, he commenced singing: -
"The promised land from Killhope top,
I now exult to see;
My hope is full ! (O Glorious Hope),
Of good spice cake and tea."
Wesley, who always had an eye for the beautiful, thus described the view from Pike Law when he came over from Teesdale: "From the top of the next enormous mountain we had a view of Weardale. It is a lovely prospect. The green gently rising meadows and fields, on both sides of the little river clear as crystal, were sprinkled over with innumerable little houses, three in four of which (if not nine in ten) are sprung up since the Methodists came hither. Since that time the beasts are turned into men, and the wilderness into a fruitful field."
And this is what the good man says about the people, especially the young people. He had been preaching at High House, and there was so great a multitude that they could not get into the chapel. So he preached again the next day, and then adds, "On Thursday at five o'clock I took my leave of this blessed people. I was a little surprised, in looking attentively upon them, to observe so many beautiful faces as I never saw before in one congregation, many of the children in particular, twelve or fourteen of whom (chiefly boys) sat full in my view. But I allow, much more might be owing to grace than nature, to the heaven within, that shone outwards."
At Eastgate, which is the next station beyond Westgate travelling from St. John's Chapel, there is a remarkably fine specimen of an old Weardale farmhouse. It is rich in Methodist associations. The late Mr. Emerson Bainbridge, father of Mr. T. H. Bainbridge, of Newcastle, was born there. I was told by the circuit steward, who now lives in the house, that the room in which Mr. Bainbridge, sen., was born is the little bedroom on the ground floor behind the black oak panelling in the great house-place, a photograph of which I was kindly permitted to take. The camera stood by the door of the little bedroom. That house-place is one of the sacred spots in the history of Methodism. It was one of the farm kitchens of the olden time to which the neighbours used to come for the Methodist preaching, precisely as the early Christians of Colosse used to come to the house-place of Philemon, in which Luke the evangelist and most of the famous preachers of that day proclaimed the evangel of Jesus Christ. When you stand inside that glorious farm kitchen you feel as though you would like to make it your home to the end of your days. As I took the photograph the place was filled with the delicious aroma of the bread-baking. The young daughter of the house, as I was told by her mother, had just distinguished herself by taking the first prize offered by the County Council for butter-making. You may see father and mother and daughter standing on the little islet above the waterfall, which is close to the farmhouse. The Bainbridge Memorial Chapel, in the same village, was erected by the generosity of the Bainbridge family, in memory of their grand-father, Mr. Cuthbert Bainbridge, whose name is fragrant in the Methodism of all this country side.
The number of ministers and laymen of note who have been raised in the dales is simply bewildering. I stood one day close to the manse of St. John's Chapel. Behind me at Hilltop, nestling among the sheltering fir trees, was the farmhouse in which the late Rev. William Gibson's father was born, who, like his son, was also a Wesleyan minister. In Pryse House, now the manse, died Joshua Dawson, the father-in-law of the Rev. Thomas Cook. Across the valley on the hillside of High House I could see the birthplace of the Rev. Joseph Race, who died in China. At the Hermitage across the river the Philipsons lived, and below, at the foot of the hill, the brother of the Rev. Thomas Nattrass was harvesting the hay. At Middle-Rigg, below Ling Riggs, not far away, the Rev. Featherstone Kellett was born; at Burnhope, the Rev. Thomas Thompson; at Ling Riggs, the Revs. Joseph and George Watson and Dr. John Watson; at Westhall, beyond Wear Head, the Rev. Jonathan Hewitson; at Stanhope, the Rev. William Wallace; and in the neighbourhood at Eastgate, the Rev. George Golightly. I do not suppose that this by any means exhausts the list. The dale literally teems with Methodist associations.
I have a few notes with reference to two of the names mentioned above.
John Kellett was born a year before the death of Wesley. He was a prominent member of the High House Society for upwards of seventy years, for nearly sixty years a local preacher, and for fifty years a class-leader. Left an orphan at twelve years of age, his advantages in early life must have been meagre. He married early, and not long after was led to think upon his ways. Under deep conviction he sought out a little band of Methodists who met in a class at Lowburn. They heartily welcomed him to their meetings and led him to Christ. He united himself to the people, and for seventy years continued a firmly attached member of the Methodist Society. The dalesmen remember with pride to this day that John Kellett was a zealous servant of the Divine Master, never whiling away time, never triflingly employed. He was a reader, and according to his opportunity, I am told, a great reader. The little cottage in which he lived, now in ruins, I looked upon with reverence, and thought of the good man living sparely, and, in the leisure hours of a busy life, studying Wesley, Fletcher, Benson, and Clarke - his great authorities on Christian doctrine - the men who taught him how to teach the people on all that country side, and how to teach the boy who was destined to go forth into a wider sphere preaching the Gospel in the greatest chapels of Methodism, and, in his turn, training sons who were destined to teach in one of the greatest schools of English learning and, one of them, the sons of Brahmins in the University of Madras. No wonder that Featherstone Kellett and his sons love Weardale and are proud of the memory of brave old John Kellett.
I may add that the Hill House [1] minister's house of the olden time still survives. It adjoins the chapel at the back. In this tiny house lived the Rev. W. Hirst, and, later, the Rev. W. Rodwell Jones. The little daughter of the latter, at that time one of two, is still remembered in the Dale. She has since become famous in literature as "Dora M. Jones." In those days there was a little shop under the minister's house. The shop window - a very tiny window - may be seen in the photograph.
John Kellett was a practical preacher, and always more anxious to lead his hearers to repentance and rectitude of life than to please their fancy. He preached in the dialect of his native valley. As he was wont to say, his aim was to be understood in speaking for his Lord rather to employ fine words, or to round his periods. He was a sturdy Methodist of the olden type, a firm believer in Methodist doctrine and polity - a Methodist by intelligent choice. Upon Christ he based all his hope of everlasting life with God in heaven. He was not always what could have been desired in word and temper, and sometimes unfortunate expressions would occasion feelings not of the pleasantest among his brethren. But when the breeze subsided no one was more ready to accept, or to give, the reconciling word. He was conscious of weakness, and therefore, though a thorough believer in the higher life, he never felt that he could venture to profess it. He was a diligent attendant at prayer-meetings and week-night services in his own locality, and often walked miles from home to preach in cottages. Throughout a large circle he visited the sick and dying and anyone who might be under conviction of sin. His manner was to impress people by relating striking instances which had come under his own observation. He had a quaint way of introducing incidents met with during his visits. He once caused a smile in a great public meeting at High House by commencing his speech thus: "I sometimes think that in some respects Satan and I are not unlike each other. Satan went to and fro and up and down the earth, and so do I - but to undo what Satan has done." And then he narrated remarkable facts he had met with in his travels. John Kellett has an honoured place amongst the planters of Methodism in Weardale and the adjacent dales. He rests from his labours and his works do follow him.
Joshua Dawson belonged to a later generation of Weardale Methodists. He was born in 1821. His parents were connected with High House, and gave their children training according to the manner of the Methodists. Nevertheless, Joshua, in his youth, fell among evil companions and drank and fought. In a quarrel his leg was broken. Obliged to stay at home he began to improve himself in the rudiments of knowledge. His brother, who was a fair scholar, helped him. By the time he had recovered from his accident he thought himself competent to take charge of a school at Ireshopeburn. He married Miss Frances Tinniswood. She disliked his habits, but had boundless faith in his father's example and prayer. In 1844, just after their marriage, Scotch missionaries visited Weardale, and one night, under a sermon by Mr. Robertson, a Morrisonian Presbyterian, in High House Chapel, on the word "Eternity," the two young people gave their hearts to God. In this revival Featherstone Kellett, Thomas Nattrass (both of whom afterwards entered the ministry), with Mr. Thomas Hodgson, who became a useful local preacher and leader, and many others were converted. Joshua Dawson passed through terrible spiritual experiences at this time. "As he was coming the devil threw him down." But he was desperately in earnest for salvation, so earnest that he afterwards said to a friend, "I loved my wife as much as any man could love his wife, yet I could have left her, and home and friends, and could have gone to the uttermost parts of the earth and there dragged out a miserable existence alone, if only I might have been satisfied that God would save my soul." It occurred to him one day that some time before he had said to an employer of labour that which was not true about a man who had tried to injure him. It was only a trivial matter, yet he set off at once to Nent Head, a village about seven and a-half miles away over the mountains, that he might confess his sin and make restitution of character. "Now all this time," says Bunyan, and so also Joshua Dawson through these days and weeks of distress never ceased saying, "If I perish it will be crying out for God."
His life, of course, became entirely changed. But while reading the Word of God, Wesley's Sermons, and Christian Perfection, the Lives of John Smith, William Bramwell, Carvosso, and other Methodist biographies, he saw there was a higher state of grace, and rested not till he had obtained full redemption. Then he gave himself to the Word of God, and, along with Thomas Hodgson, Thomas Watson, and others, commenced prayer-meetings and cottage services. The result was a revival in which many were brought to God. He obtained permission from the minister to commence a new class-meeting, which became so large that it had to be held in the chapel. He spent much time in prayer, praying regularly with his scholars and even on the highway as he went to and from the school. On one occasion he had been home to dinner at Pryse. Starting for the school, which was about a mile distant, he began to pray aloud. When he reached Pryse Hill a tramp, sitting under the hedge, heard him, and had the wit to explain, "That's right, brother, I'm fasting and you're praying, so we'll both get to heaven."
Joshua Dawson's father was a local preacher, useful in his day, but by this time old and infirm. He asked Joshua to take an appointment for him at Burnhope. The son obeyed, and had a fairly good time. His first was his father's last appointment. Until his seventieth year, as a preacher he was in labours more abundant. From the first he was very successful in winning souls, both in his own and in adjoining circuits. After several years he extended the circle of his labours. For a while with Mr. John Clarke, of Saltburn-by-the-Sea, and afterwards for several years with Mr. Jabez Woolley, of Leeds, he laboured in towns and villages in various parts of the country. Few men have been more useful in bringing souls to Christ.
From the time of his conversion Joshua Dawson acknowledged God in all his ways, making every matter a subject of prayer. Soon after his marriage he was obliged to give up teaching at Ireshopeburn, a large school being built in the locality. He determined to commence business as a grocer. But he had no money. It occurred to him that if he only had five pounds he would be satisfied. One day he went into a room adjoining the post office and laid the matter before the Lord. While on his knees he received an impression that a letter had come for him. He rose, went into the post office, and found it was so. The letter contained a five-pound note from an unknown friend. Another friend called shortly after and offered to lend him £5 more. From that time God prospered him in all his undertakings, so that he was in a position to go forth preaching Christ at his own charges.
He was a generous man, and systematic in his generosity, giving a tenth of his income. He bought the house in which he lived, and carried on his business, adding a third storey, so that in the event of objection being taken to their preaching in the chapel, women might preach there. His house was the home of the preachers.
When sixty years of age he told his friends that he had an impression that he would live ten years more to go on with his beloved work. In 1883, however, he was suddenly seized with severe illness. He suffered much, and it seemed as though his end was near. One of his most intimate friends, after praying earnestly for his recovery, opened the Bible, as some of the early Methodist preachers used to do, and his eye fell upon the passage, "I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord." The message was fulfilled. Mr. Dawson's last mission was at Ormskirk. While there he attained his seventieth year. On the last Sunday he had a glorious time. Writing to his daughter, the widow of the late Rev. Joseph Race, he said, "Yesterday was the crowning day of my life." The next day there came a paralytic seizure, which ended his labours as an evangelist. Once he said to Mrs. Race, "If I had not had this extreme suffering it could hardly have been said I had gone up through much tribulation." Just before his death his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Tinniswood Dawson, asked "Is Jesus precious?" He answered "Yes." It was his last word. He passed peacefully away December 31, 1892, in the seventy-second year of his age.
Accompanying illustrations
~ Wapping Cottage, Westgate
~ Westgate Chapel
~ Mr. Emerson Bainbridge's Birthplace
~ The Linns, Eastgate
~ Kitchen of the Bainbridge Ancestral Home
~ The Cuthbert Bainbridge Memorial Chapel
~ The Minister's House behind High House Chapel
~ The Parish Church, St. John's Chapel
~ Mr. Joshua Dawson's Shop at St. John's Chapel
~ Hilltop, the Home of the Gibsons
~ Pryse House
Source: The Methodist Recorder, No. 2044, 1898
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Footnote
(1) This may be a mistake: the author probably meant "High House". 10
Froyle Methodist Church
This booklet has been produced for the
Thanksgiving Service on Sunday 17th May 1998
to commemorate the end of 136 years of
worship in Froyle Methodist Church
MINISTERS
1862 William Sanders
1864 William Priest Peck
1867 John Dawson
1869 James Aldis
1872 Samuel Atkinson
1874 James Portrey
1877 Joseph Payne
1880 Thomas Thompson
1883 Alexander Borrowman
1886 Samuel Green
1889 Richard Fletcher
1892 George Reid
1895 James G. Lawrence
1897 George Gibson
1900 Henry Cotton
1903 David Hinchcliffe
1908 W. Sinclair Smith
1911 John Willian Almond
1915 Arthur Eustace Southon, D.Lit.
1919 Ernest S. Welch
1923 Arthur Clay Lywood
1926 Stanley Derham Robinson
1929 William D. Knight
1931 W. Routley Bailey (died Oct. 1932)
1932 E. Geoffrey Parrinder, M.A., D.D., Ph.D., Hon.D.Lit.
1933 George W. Demaine
1937 Thomas Hooper Johnston
1939 (Dec) Edgar P. Blamires
1940 Edwin de Ville
1943 Peter A. Kerridge
1944 Frank Woodward Ross
1948 William Albert Parrott
1951 Hillier J. Herivel
1954 T. Hooper Johnston
1958 John J. Mahoney
1961 William D. Robinson, Ph.D.
1967 (April) Bryan W Imbush
1967 David G. Thorpe
1969 Arthur W. Banks, M.A., B.Sc.
1971 Dennis Bussey
1972 David Porter
1977 Ivan B.U. Wilson, B.A.
1982 Robert C. Schnase
1983 Neil R. Bartlett
1989 Ian D. Bowley
1997 Jean Simmonds
It is with real sadness that we have reached the decision that the small
Methodist Chapel here in Froyle must close. The building has come to the
end of its life and we know that we should invest our resources in the growing
work of our much larger church in the town centre at Alton. However, as is
so often the case, there is so much that is good in the midst of the sadness.
Let me share with you two particular causes for thanksgiving.
When our chapel was built in 1862 I expect the relationships with the vicar
and worshippers at the parish church were non-existent! Sadly, it has taken
a long time for different expressions of our faith to accept and appreciate
each other. Now we are able to say with sincerity that it is better for a small
community like Froyle to have one church, a single focus for the spiritual
life of the village. We rejoice in the fact that our small Methodist congregation
will be a welcome part of the life of the church with thoughts and experiences
to contribute from our tradition.
Secondly, we give thanks that we can look back to so much that has been
achieved. There are good memories of times when the Sunday School was
large and busy, of times when the church was filled for services and when
the support and care that was offered from the chapel to the life of the
village were important. There is gratitude to God for people who have
shared their gifts, time and faith among us and for the fact that their love
and faith contributed much to individual lives. Because of their service the
church does not die with the closure of the building. The church is not the
building, it is the people, so the work of God will always continue among
the people of Froyle. My prayer is that God will richly bless you all.
Rev. Jean Simmonds.
Superintendent Minister,
Farnham and Alton Methodist Circuit.
According to note number 11 in the reminiscences from Edgar Wesley Thompson to Thom as Geoffrey Thompson, Edgar recalls:
"The sermons of my father which I have are written with a quill pen. I can remember the scratching noise."
Delightful!
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According to the John Rylands institute there have only ever been three Wesleyan ministers with the name Thomas Thompson.
Our Thomas is shown as follows:
Thompson, Thomas 1856 1901
The others are:
Thompson, Thomas 1809 1838
Thompson, Thos. M.A. 1833 1891
Thos Thompson MA is the only other possibility to be stationed at Bridport in 1848 and Gravesend in 1863. AM may stanfd for apprentice minister or it maybe MA round the wrong way? The dates above are from the time they have been ordained, not started training - so maybe it isn't our Thomas... unless they had on the job training for a longer period???
The report of thomas at Bridport as an AM may not be our Thomas.... Age is right if AM means Apprentice/Assistant Minister. He may have gone back home for a couple of years and then returned. Note that he was later seen in atherstone as a Minister then mainly on the south Coast apart from the one trip back to Helmsley.
Definitely entered ministry in 1856 as this is in the "An index of Mnisters and Probationers who have died in the work (from commencement of Ministry to year of death)" Interestingly thee is also a John S Vickers who entered the ministry in 1849-1887 who perhaps inspired TT????
The road up through Weardale to Alston is the highest road in England - over two thousand feet high.
Welcome to Gravesend Methodist Church
History of our church
The Early Days
There have been Methodists in Gravesend since the early days of Methodism, indeed, as far back as I77I a room was rented by the twenty or so members of the Society and John Wesley himself preached at the opening service to a crowded congregation.
This first enthusiasm was short-lived however and, although one or two members still met as often as possible, it was considered by the authorities at Rochester, that “Gravesend was too wicked a town for much good to be done” and an application for a regular preacher was refused.
In 1807 a further application was made, this time it was approved and regular services began to be held.
These were so successful that the need was soon felt for a permanent building.
The First Wesleyan Chapel in Gravesend
Early in I8I2 a meeting was held to consider the matter. From then on events moved swiftly; in spite of the uncertainties brought about by the Napoleonic War.
The new church was completed and the opening services held just six months after the decision to build had been taken.
In the years that followed the church went from strength to strength. So much so, in fact, that by the end of the century the premises had become quite inadequate for its needs.
After much thought it was decided to rebuild the church and to include Sunday School Class Rooms and all other necessary accommodation on one site.
The cost of this was estimated to be £9000, but there was no hesitation, and by I906 the Church and adjoining premises, as we know them today, had been built.
At the time of the opening some £5000 had already been collected - a wonderful effort in three years - but the debt was not finally extinguished until I920.
In 2006 we celebrated the centenary of our present building.
History of Wesleyan Methodism in Gravesend :
Its Rise and Progress. By Mr. F.A.Mansfield
It has been thought appropriate to relate, as far as possible, the circumstances in which Methodism originated in Gravesend . Recorded facts date back as far as 1771, when there was a society of 16 or 20 members and the probability is that the first Methodist minister to visit the town was either Rev. Alex Mather or Rev. Joseph Benson, the commentator. In that year the little Society engaged a room capable of accommodating 200 people. On Monday, December 2nd 1771, John Wesley himself attended to open the room, and the interesting event is thus alluded to in his journal: ‘Monday, Dec. 2nd, I went down with several of our friends to Gravesend , when a building, designed for an assembly room, was used for a better purpose. It was quite crowded, yet abundance could not get in. After reading prayers, I preached on part of the second lesson, Hebrews 8 v.9-11. The room was pretty well filled at five in the morning. Fair blossoms! But what fruit will there be?’
The following year witnessed a second visit from John Wesley, who further says in his journal:- ‘I read prayers and preached to a crowded congregation at Gravesend . The stream here spreads wide, but it is not deep. Many are drawn, but none converted, or even awakened. Such is the general method of God’s providence! Where all approve few profit.’
Our venerable founder’s estimate of this beginning proved to be correct, for the room was held only a little more than three years, when it had to be abandoned for want of support. Among the members of Society, however, was a Mr Jessup, whose steadfastness and faith more than once saved the little flock from becoming scattered. Ever on the alert, his attention was directed to another room, which, although he was by no means in affluent circumstances, he forthwith engaged, becoming personally responsible for the rent. Preaching was then resumed and the regular means of grace observed. But this was not for long. Serious difficulties arose, which culminated in the temporary overthrow of the Methodist cause in the town, and some 35 years elapsed before it was heard of again. During this period of darkness it was commonly said; ‘The Sabbath never enters Gravesend ; it comes no further than the turnpike gate at Chalk.’ Still Mr Jessup remained true to God and eventually he came to learn that there were others of his own persuasion resident in Gravesend . These were two females from the West of England; Thomas Lockwood, a river pilot from Deptford; and Mr J Nash from Sittingbourne. They met for prayer and devised liberal things. A room in West Street was hired and application made to Rochester for a preacher. The reply was certainly not encouraging; it intimated that ‘ Gravesend was too wicked a place for much good to be done.’ In 1807 however, the town was Methodistically recognised and placed on the Rochester plan. Much good resulted from the services; but a further trial came when the little room was taken from the members. Once again the small Society was without a home. A meeting place was then found in Princes Street , this also being secured by Mr Jessup who himself paid a year’s rent in advance. Thenceforward the Society would seem to have grown steadily. In 1812 it was felt to be a great importance to the settlement and perpetuation of the work that a Chapel should be erected. But how to accomplish this was the question. The number of members was small and their financial resources limited. ‘Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity’ and so it proved in this as in many another case. Friends were raised up in Gravesend and Rochester ; a substantial sum was subscribed and the balance needed for building was borrowed by the trustees.
From an old minute book we gather some most interesting particulars concerning this period. The original trustees of the ‘Methodist Chapel to be built at Gravesend’ were appointed at a meeting held in the Vestry of the Chapel at Rochester , on February 6th, 1812, the travelling preachers present being Revs. Robert Johnson, Robert Martin and William Palmer. The fifteen trustees were for the most part residents of Rochester , Chatham and Brompton, Mr John Nash, coachmaker of Chalk, being also one of the number. Tenders for building the Chapel were then opened and were as follows:-
Mr Wm. Curd of Gravesend for the bricklayers, £ s. d
masons, plasterers, and slaters work 622. 8. 7
Messrs Lot & Carley, bricklayers of Gravesend 572. 0. 0
Mr Anthony Peck of Gravesend , carpenters and
joiners work, the painters, plumbers, glaziers
and smiths ironwork 1,350. 0. 0
Messrs Pemble & Whitehead, carpenters of
Chatham 1,260. 0. 0
Mr Wm. Ashenden, carpenter of Chatham 1,110. 0. 0
It was unanimously agreed to accept the tender of Mr Wm. Ashenden for carpenters work, and that of Messrs Lot & Carley for bricklayers work. It was also agreed that the front of the Chapel should be set back 22 feet from the boundary of the site. Mr Morson, attorney was directed to prepare the contracts and also to get the Trust Deeds ready for signing. Mr John Nash was authorised to give Mr Curd of Gravesend , the sum of ten guineas for surveying the bricklayers work, and that Mr Flashman be asked for his account for drawing plans, the sum being afterwards stated as £14. At a meeting of the Trustees held on May 22nd, 1812, Mr Ashenden was requested to furnish an estimate for an oak fence for the front enclosure and it was also decided that the seats in front of the gallery be let at 4s. in the second row 3s, and the rest at 2s.6d. per quarter, and that those in the body of the Chapel be let at 2s.6d. and 2s. per quarter; and that the chandeliers of Rochester Old Chapel be purchased for use in the Gravesend Chapel. In April 1835 the Trustees agreed to the introduction of gas-light to supersede candles. Many interesting extracts might be made from these early minutes if space would permit.
The appended obituary notice, however, shows the names of some of those on whom the burden of establishing our beloved Church in Gravesend chiefly rested:- Mr Robert Starbuck, died 1st February, 1831; Mr John Nash, Senior, died 23rd February 1833; Mr John Starbuck, died 27th August, 1834; Mr. Wm. Bouniwell, died August 1835; Mr George Osborn, Senior, died 5th May 1835; Mr John Bumstead, died 22nd January, 1837; Mr Robert Jessup, died 24th April, 1838; Mr. James Hulett LL.D. died 24th April, 1838.
A present member of the Church, Mrs. Ford (to whom we are indebted for much information) dates her membership back to 1845, and she well recollects a former member rejoicing in the fact of his rowing John Wesley from Gravesend to Tilbury.
Mention might also be made of Dr. Armstrong, Mr John Emery, Mr J.R.May, Dr. Hawkins, Messrs. Hadler, Taylor , Knee, Emery, Moore , Shorter, C.Hooper Smith, Hammond , Broom, W.Carpenter, James Dean, John Rose and others, who helped to carry on the work so well begun, and who have gone to their reward.
The Chapel has several times been altered and improved. The pulpit formerly stood against the wall at the northern end of the Chapel, but it was brought forward to allow for the erection of the gallery for the organ. The instrument previously in use was located in the southern gallery. Referring to the organ it is fitting to remember Miss Broom, Mrs Nicholson and Mr. C.Hooper Smith, who in turn for many years led the psalmody of the services.
The Gravesend Circuit was formed in 1819, the first superintendent appointed being the Rev. Thomas Rowland. At one time a large slice of Essex was included in this Circuit, but that arrangement ceased in 1895, when the Rev. G.H. Pickering then on the Gravesend plan, became superintendent of Grays.
The record would be incomplete were it not stated that when the Chapel was first opened the Sunday School was conducted in a room in Manor Road , the superintendent being Mr. Richardson, a grocer of High Street. The School was subsequently removed to Peacock Street .
It may well be expected that the knowledge of past achievements, so manifestly guided and controlled by the hand of God, will stimulate the Church of the present day to increased activity in order that our glorious heritage may be passed on for the spiritual good of those who are yet to follow in the train of our forefathers.
WESLEYAN/METHODIST PRIESTS OR PREACHERS
OF MILTON NEXT GRAVESEND AND GRAVESEND , KENT
1771 Rev. Alexander Mather and Rev. Joseph Benson
1771/72/73 Rev. John Wesley – Founder of Methodism.
Opening of the Ebenezer Chapel, Milton Road , Gravesend .
This after the town was Methodistically recognised (1807)
Chapel 1812
Travelling Preachers Revs. Robert Johnson, Robert Martin and William Palmer
1819 Gravesend Circuit formed, with a large part of Essex included.
First Superintendent was to be Rev. Thomas Rowland.
Unable to find records until 1837/1838
Found list of services:- Sunday 7 a.m. 10.30 a.m. 2 p.m. 5 p.m. & 6 p.m.
Sunday School, Manor Road , Milton next, Gravesend
Tuesday Lectures 7 p.m.
Prayer Meeting Friday 7 p.m.
1841 Chapel enlarged to hold 700 persons.
1842-1845 Rev. George Scott. Sunday School, Manor Road . Mr John Richardson – Treasurer
1845-1847 Rev. Robert Maxwell ( 7 Milton Road )
1846 School erected Peacock Street , with wings to School to house Priest and School Master.
1847-1851 Rev. John Hobkirk
1851-1854 Rev. M.Jubb No.2 Peacock Street “ Milton British Day School ”
1854-1857 Rev. J.Hearnshaw
1857-1860 Rev. T.A.Rayner
1860-1863 Rev. Richard Ray
1863-1866 Rev. Thomas Thompson
1867-1868 Rev. Stephen P.Harvard
1868-1870 Rev. George Turner Not to live in Church House
Resident 38 Windmill Street , Milton next Gravesend
1870-1873 Rev. Joseph Little Home 38 Windmill Street
1873-1876 Rev. Samuel Wesley “ “
1876-1879 Rev. George Butcher “ “
1879-1882 Rev. G.S.Hutton “ “
1882-1885 Rev. Thomas Wenn “ “ 1883
“ 42 Windmill Street 1884
1885-1888 Rev. W.H.Milward “ “
1888-1891 Rev. S.R.Williams “ “
1891-1894 Rev. John Jefferys “ “
1894-1897 Rev. S.J.Silcox “ 14 The Grove
1897-1900 Rev. John Pratt Elton “ “
(1895 Essex ceased to be on Gravesend Circuit)
Wesleyan/Methodist Ministers, Milton Road
1900-1904 Rev. E.R.Eslick Home 14 The Grove
1904 Contemplating Building New Church with School
1904-1907 Rev. W.H.Jackson Picken Home 14 The Grove
1905 Made Chaplain of local Barracks
1907-1910 Rev. George Neal Willis Home 14 The Grove
1910-1913 Rev. J. Edward Harlow Home “Madeley”, 39 The Avenue
1913-1916 Rev. George Lunn
1916-1920 Rev. G.Lang
1920-1926/27 Rev. William Looken
1926/29 Rev. Thomas Hamilton Groves
1929-1931 Rev. G.H.McCormick M.A. B.D.
1931 Named Methodist Chapel/Church
1931-1935 Rev. A.G.Lloyd
1935-1944 Rev. Horace Colley Died 1944
1944-1949 Rev. George Gregory (Mrs Colley was to remain with Rev. Gregory Family to 1949)
1949-1956 Rev. Dennis Robson
1956-1963 Rev. John Leonard Waddy
1963-1969 Rev. Albert Parkin
1969-1974 Rev. Leslie Lazenby
1974-1977 Rev. Roy Freeman
1977-1989 Rev. Roger Cresswell
1989-1997 Rev. Brian Snellgrove
1997- 2010 Rev. K.Andrew Lindley
2010 - Vacant -No Minister. 11
According to the 1841 census, Thomas, his mother elizabeth, His sister Ann and his Brother Isaac are living in Chapel house with another Fatherless family Sarah Emmerson and her sons Thomas and Archibald. Sarah is listed as a Dressmaker but oddly Thomas her son does not have an occupation which would indicate that he is still at school.
Oddly though our Thomas Thompson at the age of 11 has leadminer as an occupation against his name which has then been crossed out. Is this because he shouldn't have been working or is it becasuue the Census person wrote the occupation under the wrong Thomas?
Chapel House appears after High Earnwell and Before Hotts Lane house - I have looked through the 1851 Census to see who is living in the Chpael House for that period but it does not appear to be listed. The census page is Durham > Stanhope Forest Quarter > District 1c > page 31 - I have been all the way through and can't find it. Check to see if this was amalgamated into the chapel at the time of rebuilding?
High house now appears between Hotts lane house and High earnwell as do a few other houses. in High house is a weleyan Minister Henry Needle. 12
16 Isaac THOMPSON 13,14 (1807-bef1834) [468]. Born 8 Aug 1807, Stanhope, Durham. 14 Christened 13 Sep 1807, St John's Chapel, Stanhope, Durham (in Stanhope register). 15 Marr Elizabeth VICKERS 22 Jun 1829, St John's Chapel, Stanhope, Durham. 16 Died bef 23 Sep 1834, Middle Black Dean, St Johns Chapel. 17
Isaac first son of Thomas Thompson of Dike miner native of this parish by his wife Sarah Featherston native of this parish born 8 August 1807.
22/06/1829
Stanhope Parish - Weardale St John's Chapel
Marriage
Isaac Thompson and Elizabeth Vickers.
On the James Family Tree in Ancestry.co.uk (fatboy601) it gives Isaac as dying in Dene, Littoral, Cameroon???
32 Thomas THOMPSON 14 (1776-bef1837) [429]. Born 25 May 1776, Burtreeford. 18 Marr Sarah FEATHERSTONE 5 Oct 1799, Stanhope, Durham. 18 Marr Sarah FEATHERSTONE 5 Oct 1799, Stanhope, Durham. 14 Died bef 10 Feb 1837, Wearshead, Heathery Cleugh. 19
05/10/1799
Stanhope Parish
Marriage
Thomas Thompson and Sarah Featherson both of this parish by William Dighton C Wit. Thomas Featherston and William Featherston.
64 Isaac THOMPSON (bef1747- ) [793]. Born bef 1 Jan 1746/47, Burtreeford. Bap 1 Jan 1746/47, St John's Chapel, Stanhope, Durham (in Stanhope register). 20 Marr Elizabeth TWEDDEL 27 Jul 1775, Stanhope, Durham.
27/04/1775 Stanhope Parish Marriage Isaac Thompson
Isaac Thompson of Elizabeth Tweddel both of this parish by Banns by John Smyth C Wit. Thomas Thompson and John Emerson Currah
The date was almost illegible in the transcript and could be a different month in the same year.
128 Thomas THOMPSON 21 (1720?- ) [795]. Born 1720 (app).
The age of this Thomas is only a guestimate based on age of his son - possible that he could have been older. There is a ThomasThompson buried in St Thomas Stanhope in 1789 aged 83 which gives a birth date of 1706.. Gravestone ref. Stan10329 On NPA.
Stan10329
Here lies the body of THOMAS/ THOMPSON of Stanhope/ who died 22d July 1789/ aged 83 years./ also JANE THOMPSON/ his wife died 16th June 1792/ aged 83 Years/ Also RICHARD TAYLOR/ who Departed this life/ May 12th 1795 Aged 84 years.
65 Elizabeth TWEDDEL ( - ) [794].
33 Sarah FEATHERSTONE 14 (1777-1838) [430]. Born 5 May 1777, Stanhope, Weardale. 18 Died 9 Nov 1838, Wearshead, Heathery Cleugh. 8 Cause: Influenza. Buried 11 Nov 1838, St Johns Chapel, Stanhope, Durham. 19
Died on the 9th of November aged 61Death reported by Thomas Thompson (son) of Wearshead on the 10th on November and she was buried on the 11th.
05/10/1799
Stanhope Parish
Marriage
Thomas Thompson and Sarah Featherson both of this parish by William Dighton C Wit. Thomas Featherston and William Featherston.
66 Robert FEATHERSTONE (1752-1838) [1877]. Born 16 Feb 1752, Westerdale, Yorkshire. Marr Ann Hannah THOMPSON 2 Jan 1777, Westerdale, Yorkshire. Died 31 Aug 1838, Yorkshire.
132 Peter FEATHERSTONE (1706-1787) [1897]. Born 1706, Danby, Yorkshire. Marr Isabell PYBUS 4 May 1736, Glaisdale, Yorkshire. Died 1787, Whitby, Yorkshire.
133 Isabell PYBUS (1705-1801) [1898]. Born 1705, Whitby, Yorkshire. Christened 11 Jun 1713, Danby, Yorkshire. Died 1801, Whitby, Yorkshire.
67 Ann Hannah THOMPSON (1757-1826) [1878]. Born Jan 1757, Scaling, Danby, England. Died 19 Jan 1826, Scaling, Danby, England.
17 Elizabeth VICKERS 14 (1807-1849) [450]. Born 1807, St Johns Chapel, Stanhope, Durham. 14 Bap 6 Jul 1807, Stanhope, Durham. Died 2 Jul 1849, Bridge End, Parish of Stanhope. 8
[thompson relatives from weardale.FTW]
1841 censusForest quarterChapel House1
EmersonSarahF40Dress MakerY
EmersonThomasM10Y
EmersonArchibaldM6Y
Thompson ElizabethF30Y
Thompson ThomasM11Y
Thompson AnnF9Y
Thompson IsaacM7Y
Checked for deaths on 1837online.co.uk and found weardale Q3 1849 vol 24 page 319 - sending for death cert. Age is slightly out in that she was 30 on the census but 42 when she died
Death Certificate conclusive. Death reported by Thomas Vickers (in attendance) nad his address is given as Middle Black Dean.
34 Thomas VICKERS (1765?- ) [847]. Born 1765 (app), Bridge End, Frosterley, County Durham. Marr Ann MOSES 18 Jun 1791, St Thomas, Stanhope.
68 Samuel VICKERS (1721-1789) [854]. Born 1721, Stanhope, Durham. Bap 3 Jun 1721, St Thomas,Stanhope. Marr Mary DODD 21 May 1755, Haltwhistle, Northumberland. Died 27 Oct 1789, Sweet Wells, Stanhope. Buried "30101789", St Thomas, Stanhope.
136 Jacob VICKERS (bef1678-1723) [906]. Born bef 31 Aug 1678, Wolsingham, County Durham. Bap 31 Aug 1678, St Thomas's , Stanhope, Durham. Marr Rachel HALL 20 May 1705, St Thomas, Stanhope. Died 1723, Stanhope, Durham. Buried 10 Jan 1723, St Thomas, Stanhope.
272 James VICKERS (bef1635-1723) [918]. Born bef 7 Jun 1635, Stanhope, Durham. Bap 7 Jun 1635, Stanhope, Durham. Marr Isabel BURNOP 4 Jul 1671, Wolsingham, County Durham. Died 1723, Stanhope, Durham. Buried 6 Feb 1723, St Thomas, Stanhope.
544 James VICCARS (1598?- ) [1170]. Born 1598 (app), Weardale, DUR. Bap. Marr Elizabeth WESTWOOD 29 Nov 1620, Stanhope, Durham. Buried.
545 Elizabeth WESTWOOD (1600?- ) [1171]. Born 1600 (app).
1090 John WESTWOOD ( - ) [922].
273 Isabel BURNOP ( - ) [919].
137 Rachel HALL ( - ) [907].
69 Mary DODD (bap.1731, bur.1798) [855]. Bap 29 Dec 1731, Haltwhistle, Northumberland. Buried 28 Dec 1798, Stanhope, Durham.
138 John DODD ( - ) [856].
139 Margaret DODD ( - ) [857].
35 Ann MOSES ( - ) [848].
9 Jane FULLER 22 (1845-1921) [46]. Born 1845, East Ilsley, Berkshire. 23 Died 1 Dec 1921, Roselands, Ashburton. Gangrene of Toes and Cardiac failure. 8 Buried 1921, St Andrews Church, Ashburton, Devon.
Ellen Fuller born Blewbury Berkshire was visitor in Thompson house on night of 1881census.
In 1771 Ellen Fuller was living with Sister Sarah Seymour (born 1829, East Hagbourne, Berkshire) at 56 Winchester Street, Andover who is listed as head of household. In the house there is also Richard Fuller aged 34, (born 1837 East Hagborne, Berkshire) and also a John Wilson, boarder(occupation reporter), (born 1849 at Carluke in Cumberland). Richard's occupation is Carpenter and Sarahs is Grocer and Baker.
There was/(is) a Wesleyan Chapel between 58 and 59 Winchester Street, Andover. Consider the possiblity that Ellen Richard, (Lucy) and Jane are brothers and sisters living together after father had died. Interestingly, Sarah is a widow and Richard also a Widower. with the absence of a father or mother was there a plague or sothething similar which possibly took alot of people about that time?
According to Margaret Joan Thompson in research by Thomas Geoffrey Thompson, "John Vickers died on voyage to Australia. Aunt Margaret has the Prayer Book which he gave to mother when he left: he was then engaged to her. It has the inscription, to Miss J Fuller ... 15th July 1864 Andover. 24
According to research by Thomas Geoffrey Thompson and attributed to Edgar Wesley Thompson "My mother must have been living at Andover with her elder sister, Mrs Shackler, the wife of the manager of the foundry.
Probate: Thompson, Jane of Rosia Bellair Havant Hampshire widow died 1 December 1921 at Roseland Ashburton Devonshire Probate Winchester 30 March to Margaret Jane Thompson Spinster. Effects £249 1s 5d.
18 Richard FULLER 25 (1805- ) [467]. Born 1805, Aston Tirrold, Berkshire. 25
19 JANE (1809- ) [469]. Born 1809, White Waltham, Berkshire.
5 Alice Eliza Emma BEVIS 22 (1880-1972) [33]. Born 4 Aug 1880, Portsea, Hampshire. 26 Died 9 Jul 1972, Havant.
Note on Marriage to Arthur Wilfrid THOMPSON: Marriage: Portsmouth 2b 1378.
10 Charles William BEVIS 22,27 (1854-1927) [4]. Born 30 Dec 1854, Portsea, Hampshire. 28 Marr Alice QUICK 14 Aug 1879, St Judes Church, Southsea. 28 Marr Florence WILLS 1911, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Died 25 Apr 1927, Southsea.
Bevis, Charles William
1881 6 Pelham Road, Architect abd Surveyor 171
1887 Medowleigh, Hillsborough Crescent, builder 165
1887 20 Norfolk Street, Architect 165
1887 Gloucester Chambers, Norfolk Street 166
1898-1901 14 Elm Grove, architect 1
1923-1937 Bevis & Son, Yarborough Road 1
1938-1946 Bevis & Son, 13 Grove Road South 1
Trained by George Rake145
Buildings
1890 Pearl Buildings, Commercial Road 40
1892 Higher Grade School, Fawcett Road 40
1895 George Street Wesleyan Sunday School 117
1896 Edinburgh Road Congregational 4,89
1911 Victoria Road South, Congregational 40
1912 Student Hostel, Milton 40
In 1899, the ornate Pearl Building (nowknown as Charter House) wasconstructed to the north of the terraces by C W Bevis. This produced a grand landmark in the city which was, untilthe latter half of the last century, one of the tallest buildings on the island
RoadNumber/nameCon. AreaDateDescriptionVICTORIA ROAD SOUTHVictoria Road United Reformed Church1911 Brick with stone window surrounds; tower (formerly with spire). Described by David Lloyd as ”Arts & Crafts Perpendicular‘ Prominent in townscape from several roads. Designed by C. W. Bevis.
The London Gazette dated October 06 1908, HAMPSHIRE FORTRESS.
The undermentioned officers, from the 1st
Hampshire Royal Engineers (Volunteers), are
appointed to the unit, with rank and precedence
as in the Volunteer Force. Dated 1st April,
1908 :—
Headquarters; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles
William Bevis.
Quartermaster and Honorary Captain William
Pearce.
No. I (Works) Company; Captain and
Honorary Major WiJliam Henry Fry.
No. 2 ( Works) Company; Captain Theophilus
William Mead.
No. 3 ( Works) Company; Lieutenant Charles
Thomas Bevis.
No. 4 (Electric Lights) Company; Major
Edward North.
Lieutenant Richard Henry Percy Bevis.
Second Lieutenant George Edwin Couzeus.
No. 5 (Electric Lights) Company; Captain
Henry Duncan Gilbert.
Second Lieutenant VValter Bovce Brown.
No. 6 (Electric Lights) Company; Captain
Arthur Vivian White.
Second Lieutenant Percy George King.
j^o. 7 (Electric Lights) Company; Supernumerary
Captain (Honorary Lieutenant in
the Army; Anthony Poigriard Lambert.
(To remain seconded.)
Lieutenant Henry Austin Byerley Storry.
Second Lieutenant Stephen Flowers.
(discovered by James Bevis 2007).
THE LONDON GAZETTE, 15 MARCH, 1912.
War Office, 15th March, 1912.
The KING has been graciously pleased to
confer the Territorial Decoration upon the
undermentioned Officers of the Territorial
Force, who have been duly recommended for
the same under the terms* of the Royal Warrant
dated 17th August, 1908: —
Hampshire (Fortress) Engineers, Royal
Engineers; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles
William Bevis.
Captain and Honorary Major William
Henry Fry.
Bevis Buildings proposed conservation.
Report to: The Executive, 10th October 2006
Report by: Head of Planning Services
Written by: Bob Colley, Senior Planning Officer, Conservation & Design
POSSIBLE BOUNDARY CHANGES TO THE 'OWEN'S SOUTHSEA' CONSERVATION AREA
1. Purpose
1.1 To consider possible changes to the boundary of the Owen’s Southsea Conservation Area.
2. Recommendation
2.1 That the boundaries of the Owen’s Southsea Conservation Area be changed to include South Portsmouth United Reformed Church, together with the adjoining No.6 Victoria Road South within the conservation area and to exclude a small part of the Waitrose car park from the area as shown on the attached drawings.
3. Background
The proposal stems from concerns about the future of South Portsmouth United Reformed Church. It is considered appropriate to also include the adjoining No.6 Victoria Road South. The proposal to remove a small part of the Waitrose car park from the area resolves a long standing anomaly.
Section 60(2) of the Planning(Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 requires local authorities to periodically review the boundaries of their conservation areas.
South Portsmouth United Reformed Church
3.1 This church was built in 1911 to the designs of C. W. Bevis. It is a red brick building with stone window surrounds and other details. The church is in a neo-perpendicular style and has a prominent tower. A spire was removed some years ago.
3.2 The church is a prominent local landmark that features in views along both Victoria Road South and Victoria Road North. It closes views westwards down Victoria Grove and features in views along Albert Road
3.3 Whilst the church remains in ecclesiastical use it is exempt from listed building and conservation area controls. These controls would apply once ecclesiastical use ceased. However as the church is not a listed building nor in a conservation area there is currently no planning control over demolition.
3.4 The Church is included in the non statutory Local List of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest. This is a material consideration in any planning application but does not afford demolition control.
3.5 I consider that the most expedient way to extend planning control to this building would be to include it within a conservation area. The church adjoins two conservation areas. It immediately adjoins the Owen’s Southsea Conservation Area that was designated in 1977. It was formed from a number of existing conservation areas with some additional areas including Cavendish, Hereford and Stafford Road, together with the west side of Victoria Road South. The church was not included at that time, but it immediately adjoins this conservation area.
3.6 The church is also close to the Campbell Road Conservation Area which was designated on 2 March 1972 and extended to include Victoria Grove on 14 February 1989. The East Southsea Conservation Area includes the eastern side of Victoria Road South up to No.15.
3.7 Consideration was given to inclusion of the church in the conservation area some years ago. The church were not in favour at that time and no further action was taken.
3.8 The Church have been consulted and object to the inclusion of the building in a conservation area.
6 Victoria Road South
No.6 is a two storey late victorian detached house. It has a yellow brick frontage and is red brick on the side elevation. Features include a two storey bay, sash windows and ornamental barge boards.
3.9 The owner of No.6 objects to the inclusion of his property and questions if a conservation area is the best way to protect the church. His objections and my comments on his objection are summarised in Appendix 1.
3.10 It would certainly be possible to include the church within a conservation area but to exclude No. 6. However it is considered a to be a building of architectural and historic interest and it seems appropriate to include it.
Waitrose car park
3.11 The boundaries of this conservation area in the Marmion Road area were drawn before the Waitrose Car Park was constructed and reflect the earlier road layout, so that a small area of the south-east corner of the car park is within the conservation area.
3.12 This serves no useful conservation purpose and it is proposed to modify the boundary to exclude this area as shown on the attached plan. Waitose raise no objection to the proposal.
4. Consultation Undertaken
4.1 Consultations have taken place as follows: -
1. The United Reformed Church was consulted and object to the proposal. No reasons were given for their objection.
2. The owner of No. 6 Victoria Road South was consulted and objects to the proposal. A summary of his objections is noted in Appendix 1.
3. Waitrose were consulted and support the proposal to remove the section of car park from the conservation area.
5. Sustainabilty issues
The proposed inclusion of two buildings in the conservation area should help retain these existing buildings and is therefore sustainable..
6. Conclusions
5.1 That the boundaries of the Owen’s Southsea Conservation Area be changed as detailed above.
5.2 Other options considered and rejected
1. Consideration was given to seeking statutory listing for the church. I consider that given the age of the church it is perhaps questionable whether it would meet the strict criteria for listing early c20 buildings. However Charter House by the same architect C W Bevis is a listed building. Listing remains an option for future consideration.
As the main objective is to retain an important feature in the townscape of Southsea conservation area designation seems appropriate in the immediate term.
Signed ………………………………………
Head of Planning Services
Background List of Documents
Section 100D of the Local Government Act 1972
The following documents disclose facts or matters which have been relied upon to a material extent by the author in preparing this report.
1. Letter from South Portsmouth United Reformed Church dated 10 September 2006
2. Letter from the owner of No. 6 Victoria Road South dated 23 August 2006
3. Letter from Waitrose dated 24 August 2006
The recommendations set out above were approved/approved as amended/deferred/rejected by The Executive on 10 October 2006.
Signed ………………………………………………….
(discovered by James Bevis 2007).
Marriages GRO Index 1911 December Quarter
WILLS, Florence, Portsmouth 2b / 1129
BEVIS, Charles W. Portsmouth 2b / 1129.
1911 census records Charles William as widower.
According to the Portrait of CWB dated 1887, he was worshipful master of the Duke of Connaught Lodge at that time and had also been initiated into the lodge. The date of warrant for the lodge was 1879 and he must have therefore been one of the first initialtes and achieved rapid promotion as he had apparently fulfilled all the offices. IG, JD, SD, JW, SW, and finally WM - of course journalists have been known to get it wrong. (there is a fold in the paper and critically it appears that what I have taken for seven years in practice on his own account is actually eleven....
Confirmed by W.Bro Dave Weekes (Secretary of the Duke Of Connaught Lodge in 2009)
W.Bro. Charles William Bevis was balloted for and initiated into the Duke of Connaught Lodge on Jan 25 1880 his Proposer was John Wesley Gardener and his Seconder was J W Willmott. He was passed on Feb 22 1881 His date of raising is not clear but it was in 1881.He resigned on 25 4 1907
He was Master of the Lodge in 1887 and I can confirm that he was Treasurer in 1894.
PORTSMOUTH GUILDHALL
The first town hall built on the present site was opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) on August 9th 1890.
The previous buildings had all been situated in what is now known as Old Portsmouth. The first stood opposite St Thomas's church (now Cathedral) in the middle of the High Street, but it was an obstruction to the increasing traffic in the street and so was moved in 1838. It was demolished and a new building was situated on the east side of the High Street.
With the rapid expansion of Portsmouth the decision was made by the City Corporation to build a larger more central building.
The land that the current Guildhall is built on was purchased from the War Department, but was previously the site of a brewery and the residence of Sir Thomas Ridge. The site was specifically chosen due to its proximity to the railway system, which was gaining in importance at that time.
Initially there was an idea to have a competion for the design of the building, but eventually it was decided to use the same design as that used for Bolton Town Hall, by Leeds architect William Hill. The Guildhall was constructed at a cost of £140,000, under the supervision of the architect and Charles Bevis of a local company.
On January 10th 1941, the Guildhall was hit by incendiary bombs, during one of the biggest bombing raids on Portsmouth during the blitz of the 2nd world war the building was very badly damaged by fire, only three external walls were still standing.
After the war the Corporation intended to demolish the remains of the building and rebuild a new one. However popular opinion wanted to retain the outside structure, partly for nostalgic reasons and partly as an act of defiance.
The interior of the building was redesigned by Berry Webber, with as much of the outer shell retained as possible. The Guildhall was reopened reopened by Her Majesty the Queen on 8 June 1959.
St Judes Church
- Charles William Bevis -
Location
In the south-east corner of the Nave
Memorial Inscription
IN MEMORY OF
CHARLES WILLIAM BEVIS J.P., F.R.I.B.A.
MUCH LOVED HUSBAND OF
FLORENCE BEVIS
CHURCH WARDEN OF THIS CHURCH 1915-1925
WHO DIED APRIL 25TH 1927
I know that my redeemer liveth.
Probate: Alice Bevis of Elm Grove House, ELm Grove, Southse died 29/10/1909 to the said charles William Bevis £841 2s 4d.
Probate: Charles William of Varenna, 1 Nettlecombe Avenue, Southsea, Hampshire, died 5th of April 1927. Probate London 19 may to florence Bevis Widow, Richard henry Percy Bevbis, Architect and Arthur Wilfrid Thompson Customs Officer> Effects 13616 11s. 2d.
Probate: Florence of Varenna, 1 Nettlecombe avenure, Southsea, Hamshire Eidow, Died 28 May 1936, Probate London 3 July to Lyndhurst George Groves Solicitor Alice Eliza Emma Thompson (wife of Arthur Wilfred Thompson). Effects £20482 2s. 11d.
20 Charles BEVIS 29 (1831-1890) [208]. Born 2 Sep 1831, Alverstoke, Gosport. 27,30 Marr Emma Matilda PINK 11 Dec 1853, Holy Trinity Church, Gosport. 31 Marr Emma Matilda PINK 16 Dec 1853, Holy Trinity Church, Gosport. 28 Died 15 Apr 1890, The Lunatic Asylum, Milton, Portsmouth. 32 Died 4 Dec 1890, Southsea, 28
Record for a death of charles bevis in Portsea, Hampshire 1890 aged 58 ????
On marriage Certificate Charles bevis used a residential certificate. not banns. Charles Bevis following his earlier occupation as shipwright.
His father was following his occupation as a warder, William Pink was a coast guard.
Emma signed with an ‘X’ instead of signature, however Amelia her sister signed as a witness.
Looks like the vicar had previously prepared the cert. with mark of Emma Pink and got her to ‘X’ it.
Page 125 entry 249 Charles BEVIS , bachelor, shipwright, of Gosport, & Emma PINK , spinster, of Bingham town, both of full age, fathers were – John BEVIS, warder & William PINK, coastguard December 11 1853
Page 125 entry 250 Benjamin SHIELDS , bachelor, messenger, & Caroline BEVIS, spinster, both of full age & both of Gosport,fathers were, Edward SHIELDS, gardener, & John BEVIS, warder December 16 1853
Page 153 entry 305 William BEVIS, 24,bachelor,schoolmaster, & Bethia Smith FOSTER, 23, spinster, both of Gosport, fathers were – John BEVIS , pensioner & Thomas FOSTER, policeman August 25 1859.
Bevis Charles, Personal Estate £177 18s 9d, 28 April 1890. The Will of Charles Bevis late of 71 King Street, Southsea Portsea in the County of Southampton who died 15 April 1890 at the Lunatic Asylum Milton Portsmouth in the said County was proved at Winchester by Emma Matilda Bevi of 65 King Street Southsea, Widow the Rlict the sole Exucutrix.
40 John BEVIS (1800-1861) [215]. Born 1800, Gosport. Bap 1 Feb 1800, Holy Trinity Church, Gosport. 28 Marr Caroline WHISTON 10 Jul 1825, St Mary's Church, Portsmouth. Died 22 Sep 1861, Gosport. 28
80 John BEVIS 28 (1767-1844) [216]. Born 1767, Fareham. Bap 8 Mar 1767, St Peter & St Paul, Fareham. 28 Marr Mary SMITH 5 Aug 1784, St Mary's Church, Portsmouth. 28 Died 18 Jun 1844, Gosport. 28
160 Thomas BEVIS (1737-1817) [217]. Born 1737, Fareham. 28 Bap 17 Jul 1737, St Peter & St Paul, Fareham. 28 Marr Mary HARRIS 1 Nov 1762, St Peter & St Paul, Fareham. 28 Died 1817, Fareham, Hampshire. 28 Buried 13 Apr 1817, Fareham, Hampshire. 33
320 Joseph BEVIS 28 (1689?- ) [218]. Born 1689 (est). Bap 16 Sep 1689, South Stoneham, Hampshire. 33 Marr Elizabeth BUNGY 5 Dec 1710, St Leonards, Sherfield English, Hampshire. 33
Joseph BEVIS anywhere during 1723 in Hampshire Burial Index.
1. Name Joseph Bevis buried 31 Jul 1723 age - Parish Gosport.
640 Richard BEVIS 33 (1640?- ) [1330]. Born 1640 (est). Bap 13 Sep 1640, Stoke charity, Hampshire. 33
1280 Christopher BEVIS 33 (1605?- ) [1333]. Born 1605 (app). Marr Margaret COMPLIN 18 Sep 1625 (app), Stoke charity, Hampshire. 33
1281 Margaret COMPLIN 33 (1607?- ) [1334]. Born 1607 (app), Stoke charity, Hampshire. 33
641 Mary ( - ) [1331].
321 Elizabeth BUNGY 34 (b.1691?, bur.1756) [219]. Born 1691 (est). Buried 18 Aug 1756, Fareham, Hampshire. 33
Also recorded as Elizabeth Hyde from research by Valerie Patricia Bevis
Changed to Elizabeth Bungy on receipt of information from Jo Hazell 08/2008.
161 Mary HARRIS ( - ) [220].
81 Mary SMITH ( - ) [224].
41 Caroline WHISTON (1804- ) [238]. Born 1804, Arundel.
21 Emma Matilda PINK 5,35 (1831?-1901) [209]. Born 1831 (app), Bingham Town, Gosport. 31 Died 1901. 36 Died aft 1911, Portsmouth, Hampshire.
42 William PINK ( - ) [289].
11 Alice QUICK (1853-1909) [5]. Born 25 Dec 1853, Portsea Island, Hampshire. Born 1854 (app), Landport, Hampshire. 31 Died 29 Oct 1909.
Born at 27 Alfred terrace, Portsea (registered District Portsea island union).
Death Certificate 29/10/1909 2B338.
Note on Marriage to Charles William BEVIS: Scan10010c.jpg shows very pregnant Alice Quick with a biggish baby in the pram - hve taken her to be pregnant with Ernest and Douglas in the pram. However, Scan10009d.jpg which appears to have been taken at the same time and definitely in 1895 is annotated with "Ern" in the pram and Doug standing next to Queenie - possibility is that scan10010c.jg was taken a yer earlier or that Alice lost a baby after Ernest - only three pictures of Alice Quick and she is pregnant in all three...
22 Thomas Warren QUICK (1832?-1902) [483]. Born 1832 (app), Portsea, Hampshire. 25 Died 14 Jul 1902, Portsmouth, Hampshire.
THOMAS WARREN QUICK, Deceased.
Pursuant to an Act of Parliament, 22 and 23 Victoria,
c. 35, intituled " An Act to further amend the Law of
Property, and to relieve Trustees."
NOTICE is hereby given, that all creditors and
persons having any claims or demands upon
or against the estate of Thomas Warren Quick, late of
25, Junction-road, Southsea, in the county borough of
Portsmouth, deceased, who died on or about the fourteenth
day of July, 1902, and whose will (with one codicil
thereto), was proved by Thomas Quick, of 67, Victoria road
South, Southsea aforesaid, Builder, Charles
William Bevis, of Elm Grove House, Southsea aforesaid,
Architect, and Edward Williams, of " Kinellan,"St. Gross road,
in the city of Winchester, Gentleman, the executors
therein named, on the thirtieth day of August, 1902, in
the District Registry at Winchester of the Probate
Division of the High Court of Justice), are hereby
required to send in the particulars of their, claims and
demands to the undersigned, the Solicitors of the said
executors, on or before the twenty-fourth day of April,
instant; and notice is hereby given, that after that day
the said executors will proceed to distribute tbe assets
of the deceased among the parties entitled thereto,
having regard only to tbe claims of which the
said executors shall then have notice; and that they
will not be liable for the assets, or any part thereof,
so distributed, to any person of whose debt or claim
they shall not then have had notice.—Dated this tenth
day of April, 1905.
CLARKE and HARRIS, 45, Jewry-street*
142 Winchester, Solicitors for the Executors.,
44 Thomas QUICK (1807- ) [426]. Born 1807, Portsea, Hampshire. 25
23 Eliza (1831?- ) [493]. Born 1831 (app), Portsea, Hampshire.
Ellen Adams as vistor in house on night of census.
3 Joan Ivy Grace SHERVELL (1923-1980) [1]. Born 2 Sep 1923, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Christened Warblington. Died 20 Jun 1980, Carmarthen, South Wales.
6 Leonard Charles SHERVELL 29,37 (1892-1959) [27]. Born 12 Dec 1892, Portsea, Hampshire. 29 Marr Ivy Grace POOK 9 Nov 1921, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Died 16 Mar 1959, Westcliffe on Sea, Essex. Cause: Pneumonia.
Birth recorded on page 398 volume 2b of register. Exact day is unsure at moment.
Marriage index 1921 q3 2b 1295 to "Sherwell".
1933 phone directory shows 98 Victoria road North, Portsmouth 31080.
Still at 98 Victoria Road North in 1940. (phone book).
Death Rochford 1959 4a 923 aged 66 - Pneumonia.
12 John Edward SHERVELL (1867-1932) [35]. Born 17 Nov 1867, Portsea, Hampshire. 38 Christened 17 Nov 1867, Saint Marys, Portsea, Hampshire, England. 39 Marr Helen JENMAN 26 Jan 1890, Chichester. 40 Died 17 Dec 1932, Inglenook, London Road, Horndean, Hampshire. 32,41
Lived at 13 Festing Road, Southsea in 1920 - Phone number Portsmouth 3107 - source Phone book.
Phone book entries in the phone book start as early as 1898 and are listed as founders, engineers general engineers and in 1928-30 as motor engineers, then back to engineers kisted in 1920 at 13 festing road as engineer &C.
National Probate calender for 1933 has the following record for john Edward Shervell with a wife Helen Shervell.
Probate Winchester 25 March to Helen Shervell Widow - Effects £321, 10shillings. 32,42
Death Petersfield 2c 209.
1911 census indicates that a store and yard were registered to a Mr Shervell at Waterloo place reg dist 3 of Portsea and landport sub reg district nr 3 institution 26 piece 253.
24 John Edward SHERVELL 29 (1845-1916) [37]. Born 17 Nov 1845, Portsea Island. 43 Bap 28 Dec 1845, Saint Marys, Portsea, Hampshire, England. 44 Marr Ellen Ann PERRIAM Mar 1867, Portsmouth, Hampshire. 29 Died 21 Nov 1916, Portsea, Hampshire.
1881 Census records JES (misspelt as Sherwell) as living at 14 Kings Road and employment as "Sewing Machine Maker employing 10 men and 4 boys".
John E Shervell
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1845
Year of Registration: 1916
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Age at Death: 71
District: Portsmouth (1900 Onw)
County: Hampshire
Volume: 2b
Page: 745.
Ballotted for 17th May 1893
Initiated 21st June 1893
Passed 19th July 1893
Raised 20th September 1893
Passed to the Grand Lodge above 21st November 1916
Royal Sussex Lodge no. 342. 45
Death Portsmouth 2b 745.
Probate: Shervell Jonn Edward of 13 festing ROad Southsea Hampshire died 27 nov 1916 Probate London 21 March to Ellen Shervell Widow. Effects £1841 1s 6d.
48 John Jonathon Page SHERVELL 5,27,46 (1821-1904) [18]. Born 1821, Portsea, Hampshire. 27 Marr Amelia NEW 2 May 1841, St Mary's Church, Portsea, Hampshire. 47 Marr Anne ATTWOOD 1880 (app), Portsea, Hampshire. Ann. Died 13 Aug 1904, Portsmouth. 48
1861 Census has John Jonathon Page and family living at 35 st Thomas street next to (Old Countyman) Occupation Sawyer
1871 Census records 35 St Thomas Street as being a "Grocers Shop" and JJPS's occupation as being Grocer, Superannuated Sawyer
Ameilia's Death Certificate has JJPS recorded as Grocer (Master) - Did Sawyers get superannuated?
John J P Shervell
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1821
Year of Registration: 1904
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
Age at Death: [83]5
District: Portsmouth (1900 Onw)
County: Hampshire
Volume: 2b
Page: 258.
Probate : John Jonathon Page hervell of 101 Kingston Road Buckland Portsmouth died 13 august 1904 Probate London 7 September to Anne Shervell Widow Effects 482.
96 Richard SHERVELL 49 (1793-aft1851) [347]. Born 1793, Fareham, Hampshire. 50 Marr Elizabeth PAGE. Died aft 1851.
Sussex: - Wills and Administrations preserved in the District Probate Court of Lewes
Register 3.
Sussex Wills and Administrations in the District Probate Registry at Lewes.
[Contains also many Wills proved, and Administrations granted, in 1561.]
County: Sussex
Country: England
Shervell, Richard, Northiam, --: 18 Mar 1558 , 12 Apr 1559 257.
found on 1851 census as "Richard Shevell" aged 58 born Fareham Hampshire with occupation as Sawyer. He was aslo shown as Sawyer on John Jonathon Page Shervell's marriage certificate. Elizabeth is shown as born in London: Marielebone. There is also a marielebone street in the same district of Portsea? They also had lodgers in the house: George Grist who was a "Tinman" and Thomas Baker Labourer and a visitor Charles Mew (New) who was 9 years old john jonathon Page Shervell married Amelia New in 1841.
97 Elizabeth PAGE (1794-1854) [349]. Born 20 Nov 1794, Marylebone, London. 50 Bap 17 Nov 1796, St Marylebone, Marylebone, London. 51 Charles Newman confirmed birthdate, maiden name and batism place and date. Died Q1 1854, Portsea.
49 Amelia NEW (1816-1870) [19]. Born 1816, Portsea, Hampshire. 25 Died 3 Dec 1870, Portsea, Hampshire. 29,52 35 St Thomas's Street, Portsea, Hampshire. Cause: Apoplexy. Death reported by John Shervell.
Note on Marriage to John Jonathon Page SHERVELL: Marriage Certificate has John Jonathon Page Shervell as profession of Lawyer. The house he livied in in Old Portsmouth would certainly lend itself to this occupation. The Census has him as superannuated Lawyer and Grocer.. why would he retire as a lawyer to become a grocer in what was then one of the seedier parts of portsmouth...?
98 John NEW (1794- ) [346]. Born 1794, Portsmouth, Hampshire. 25
99 Elizabeth DENNET (1796?- ) [422]. Born 1796 (app), Titchfield, Hampshire.
25 Ellen Ann PERRIAM 29,53 (1845-1925) [38]. Born 1845, Exmouth, Devon. 54 Died 21 May 1925, Portsmouth, Hampshire. 55 13 Festing Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Cause: Senility, Hypostatic Pneumonia. Widow of John Edward Shervell, Engineer and brass founder. Informant H Edelston, daughter.
death 2b 624.
50 William Bishop PERRIAM 35 (1819-1907) [212]. Born 1819, Exmouth, Devon. 35 Died Mar 1907, Portsea, Hampshire.
100 Richard PERRIAM (1787-1866) [1788]. Born 1787, Exmouth, Devon. Died Sep 1866, Devon,
101 Martha 56 (1789- ) [1789]. Born 1789. 56
51 Ann LOWTON 57 (1818- ) [203]. Born 1818, Dunchideock, Devon.
13 Helen JENMAN 5,58 (1868-1951) [36]. Born 1868, Chichester, Sussex. 5 Died 26 Feb 1951, Catherington, Hampshire. 59
Death registration Certificate 6b 447.
26 Thomas JENMAN 5,60 (1831- ) [382]. Born 1831, Selsey, Sussex. 35
This guy must have been a very colourful character, notonly does his age vary by two years, but his wife's varies by up to 8. on the 1891 census she is 12 years younger than him, on the 1901 census she is 18 years younger than him... ahh those were the days and in the 1881 census she was 15 years younger than him.
In 1891 census Henry William Shervell senior was living at 55 St Marys road..
52 William JENMAN 25 (1795-1870) [418]. Born 1795, Chichester, Sussex. 25 Marr Anne SHAWYER 25 Dec 1820, Selsey, Sussex. Died 1870, Chichester, Sussex.
Marriage solemnised in Selsey 26/12/1820 - image in lightroom.
104 George JENMAN (1754- ) [1530]. Born 1754, Chichester, Sussex. Bap 17 Apr 1754, East Marden, Sussex.
208 George JENMAN (1718-1765) [1532]. Born 1718, Stoughton, Sussex. Marr Elizabeth TREGOSS 11 Apr 1748, West Dean, Sussex. Died 1765, Stoughton, Sussex.
416 George JENMAN 61 (1690- ) [1534]. Born 1690, East Marden, Sussex. Marr Mary 1717.
417 Mary 61 (1690- ) [1535]. Born 1690.
209 Elizabeth TREGOSS (1718- ) [1533]. Born 1718, West Dean, Sussex.
105 Mary KENNET (1754- ) [1531]. Born 1754.
53 Anne SHAWYER (1801-1888) [419]. Born 1801, Donnington, Sussex. Died 1888, Franklin Place, Chichester, Sussex. Franklin Place, Chichester, Sussex.
106 Daniel SHAWYER (1771-1826) [1528]. Born 1771. Died 1826.
107 Mary BARNES (1777-1854) [1529]. Born 1777. Died 1854. 61
27 Jane WAKEFORD (1840?- ) [383]. Born 1840 (app), Chidham, Sussex. 62
7 Ivy Grace POOK (1898-1975) [28]. Born 21 Jan 1898, Portsea, Porstmouth. 63 Died 1 Mar 1975, Kingston Upon Thames, Greater London.
Lived in Emsworth up to a few weeks before death. Kingston upon thames Certificate Greater London 13 2128.
14 William Henry POOK 22,27 (1863-bef1922) [188]. Born 29 Mar 1863, Portsea, Hampshire. 2 Marr Annie Maria Frances BREWER Q4 1885, Portsea, Hampshire. Marr Annie Maria Frances BREWER 25 Dec 1885, Portsea, Hampshire. 36 Died bef 16 Apr 1922. 36
check bmd records - there is a W H/A Pook with a birthday of 29th March in granny Shervell's birthday book.
1891 94 Shakespeare Road, Portsmouth.
Addres at birth - 61 Arundel Street, Landport. Death unknown except that he died before 16/04/1922 as this is listed on his daughters marriage certificate. He left home in the middle of the night when the children were young and was never seen again (Helen Thompson). 36
28 James POOK 5,27,29,35 (1828-1897) [195]. Born 21 Sep 1828, Portsea, Hampshire. 27,36 Christened 21 Sep 1828, Saint Marys, Portsea, Hampshire, England. 64 Bap 21 Sep 1828, Portsea, Hampshire. 65 Marr Mary Ann LOVETT 22 Aug 1849, Portsea, Hampshire. Died 7 Mar 1897, Portsmouth Hampshire. 29 26 Stirling Street, Buckland, Cause: Haemorrhage of the brain from an accidental fall on the 5th of March.
56 Samuel POOK (1792-1860) [350]. Born 1792, Portsea, Hampshire. Christened 28 Jun 1793, St. Marys, Portsea Island. Bap 28 Jun 1793, St Mary's Portsea Island. 66 Marr Frances SPARKES 18 Aug 1815, Saint Marys, Portsea, Hampshire. 67,68 Died Q1 1860, Portsea, Hampshire.
112 William POOK (1756-1818) [352]. Born 1756. 69 Christened 1 Feb 1756, Warbleton, Sussex. 70 Marr Sarah WHITE 9 Jul 1780, Saint Mary, Portsea, Hampshire. 71 Died Sep 1818, Portsea, Hampshire. 69 Buried 17 Sep 1818, Portsea, Hampshire. 72 Living at Church road.
224 William POOK (1735?- ) [1405]. Born 1735 (app), Portsea, Hampshire.
225 Mary (1750?- ) [1406]. Born 1750 (app).
113 Sarah WHITE (1756-1820) [353]. Born 1756. Bap 7 Mar 1756. Died Oct 1820, Portsea, Hampshire. 69 Buried 1 Nov 1820, Portsea, Hampshire. 73 Died 28 Jul 1857, Portsea, Hampshire. 70 Union Workhouse.
226 Richard WHITE 74 ( - ) [1388].
57 Frances SPARKES (1795?- ) [351]. Born 1795 (app).
29 Mary Ann LOVETT 76 (1829-1910) [196]. Born 10 May 1829, Portsea, Hampshire. 36 Bap 10 May 1829, Parish of Portsea. Died 26 Oct 1910, Parish of Portsmouth Infirmary. Imbecile Wards, Cause: Senile Decay. death reported by Annie Pool (nee Brewer).
Death Due to Senile decay at Portsmouth Infirmary. 36
58 John LOVETT ( - ) [1270].
59 Mary Ann ( - ) [1387].
15 Annie Maria Frances BREWER 22 (1864-1945) [187]. Born 6 Jun 1864, Portsea, Hampshire. 2,22 Died 2 Feb 1945, St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth. Cause: Myocardial degeneration & Senility.
30 William BREWER 77 ( - ) [1268]. Marr Annie BARBER Q3 1863, Portsea, Hampshire.
31 Annie BARBER 78 (1840-1880) [1269]. Born 1840, Poole, Dorset. Died Q4 1880, Portsea, Hampshire.
62 Lennox BARBER (1793?- ) [1513]. Born 1793 (app).
63 Maria (1809- ) [1514]. Born 1809, Poole, Dorset. 61
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| 2 | "Birth Certificate". |
| 3 | "Marriage Certificate". 1920 June, Portsmouth volume 2b Page 1378. |
| 4 | "John Bevis Thompson". |
| 5 | "1881 England Census". |
| 6 | Geoff Nicholson, "Geoff Nicholson". Text From Source: St John's Chapel
register. 1830 Apr 10 - Thomas Son of Isaac & elizabeth Thompson, Middle
Black Dean, Miner, Born 3rd April
Geoff Nicholson, St John's Chapel register. 1830 Apr 10 - Thomas Son of Isaac & elizabeth Thompson, Middle Black Dean, Miner, Born 3rd April. |
| 7 | "Marriage Certificate". Thomas Thompson - Jane Fuller.
Text From Source: Marriage witnessed by Henry Shackler and Lucy Fuller. Rector Thomas Child |
| 8 | "Death Certificate". |
| 9 | "The Observer". Friday May the 17th, 1901. |
| 10 | "http://afinitas.org/Watson/WearMeth/MR1898c.html". Cit. Date: 16 October 2010. |
| 11 | "http://www.gravesendmethodistchurch.org.uk/history.htm". Cit. Date: 16 October 2010. |
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| 15 | Geoff Nicholson, "Geoff Nicholson". Text From Source: St John's Chapel
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(Baptism) Septr 13th, 1st son of Thomas Thompson of Dike, Miner, Native of this
Parish by his Wife Sarah Featherstone, Native of this parish
Geoff Nicholson & Ken Heatherington |
| 16 | Ibid. Text From Source: Isaac Thompson of this Chapelry and Elizabeth Vickers
of this Chapelry Spinster were married in this Chapel by Licence this twenty
second day of June in the Year One thousane eight hundred and twenty nine by me
Thos W Minton Offg Minister. This Marriage was solemnized between us Isaac
Thompson & Elizabeth Vickers in the presence of Jonathon Naters(Natrass?)
and the mark of Ann Thompson
Isaac Thompson of this Chapelry and Elizabeth Vickers of this Chapelry Spinster were married in this Chapel by Licence this twenty second day of June in the Year One thousane eight hundred and twenty nine by me Thos W Minton Offg Minister. This Marriage was solemnized between us Isaac Thompson & Elizabeth Vickers in the presence of Jonathon Naters(Natrass?) and the mark of Ann Thompson. |
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Thompson of Burtryford.
Geoff Nicholson, From the Stanhope register under a page headed "Chapel" 1746/47 Jan 1, Isaac Son of Thomas Thompson of Burtryford. |
| 21 | Ibid. |
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Text From Source: See both Methodist church and St Andrews |
| 24 | "Margaret Thompson". |
| 25 | "1861 census". |
| 26 | "1891 England Census". RG11 1159 78 41.
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| 27 | "1871 census". |
| 28 | "Kathleen Valerie Patricia Bevis". |
| 29 | "England & Wales, FreeBMD Index: 1837-1983". |
| 30 | "1871 census". Text From Source: RG10/1143 |
| 31 | "Emily Sheilds". |
| 32 | "National Probate Calendar 1861 - 1941 (1933)". |
| 33 | Jo Hazell (mother of James Bevis), "Jo Hazell (mother of James Bevis)". |
| 34 | Ibid. Cit. Date: 15 August 2008. Assessment: Secondary evidence. |
| 35 | "1891 England Census". |
| 36 | "File (merged): C:\Users\Roger\Documents\My Family Tree\GED files\Thompson christmas tree gedcom.GED". |
| 37 | "Ivy Grace Shervell(nee Pook)". |
| 38 | "John Henry Shervell". |
| 39 | "Parish records". St Marys Church, Portsea, Hampshire. |
| 40 | "Marriage Certificate". John Edward & Helen 1890. |
| 41 | "Official Receiver". |
| 42 | "Nancy Gordy". |
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| 44 | "www.familysearch.org". |
| 45 | "David Gray (sec 342)". by email. |
| 46 | "England & Wales, FreeBMD Index: 1837-1983". Text From Source: Marriage June 1841 |
| 47 | "Parish register Portsea, Hampshire, England (St. Mary's) , 1816-1855". Text
From Source: Marriages:
Spouse: AMELIA NEW Marriage: 02 MAY 1841 Saint Marys, Portsea, Hampshire, England |
| 48 | "England & Wales, FreeBMD Index: 1837-1983". www.1837online.com.
Text From Source: period Jul-Aug-Sep 1904 |
| 49 | "Marriage Certificate". John Jonathon Page Shervell and Amelia New. |
| 50 | "1851 Census". HO 107/1659. |
| 51 | "Charles Newman". |
| 52 | "Death Certificate". Amelia Shervell |
| 53 | "John Bushell". |
| 54 | "1901 England Census". RG13 994 32 9 57. |
| 55 | "Death Certificate". 2b 624.
Ellen Shervell |
| 56 | "Margaret Simmons". |
| 57 | "Marriage Certificate". Witness with William?? |
| 58 | Ibid. 1890.
Text From Source: Her name and fathers are Jenman |
| 59 | "Source Of Data". Portsmouth Evening news Feb 27 1951. |
| 60 | "Marriage Certificate". John Edward and Helen 1890.
Text From Source: Father Thomas Jenman, Occupation Cab driver Cab driver |
| 61 | "Wendy Ann Jelley". |
| 62 | "1901 England Census". RG 13/985 Vessel 1 Folio 22 Page 35. |
| 63 | Ibid. RG13 986 56 14 80. |
| 64 | "Parish records". Parish registers, 1666-1875 Church of England. St. Mary's Church, Portsea. |
| 65 | "Baptism record". |
| 66 | Ibid. from Claire Pook |
| 67 | "Parish records". Parish register of Portsea, Hampshire, England (Saint Marys) ; marriages, 1774-1815. |
| 68 | "Marriage Certificate". Supplied by Claire Pook |
| 69 | Steve Pook, "Steve Pook (Southport)". |
| 70 | "Bill Pusey". |
| 71 | "Marriage Certificate". from Claire Pook |
| 72 | "Death Certificate". from Claire Pook |
| 73 | "Burial Record". from Claire Pook |
| 74 | "Baptism record". of Child Sarah |
| 75 | Ibid. of child sarah |
| 76 | "Birth Certificate". Albert Alfred's Birth Certificate |
| 77 | Ibid. daughter's birth Certificate |
| 78 | Ibid. from annie Maria Frances' birth Certificate |