▶Date of birth:   1792       Place of birth: Dublin, Ireland

▶Father: Richard Connor      Mother:  [unknown]

▶Spouse(s):  Ann    Date(s) of marriage: (uncertain)      Place(s) of marriage: (uncertain)

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: [The identification is likely but not certain.] James Connor was the son of Richard Connor Esq., of Dublin. He matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford in 1813, BA 1817, and was ordained Deacon (Gloucester) and Priest in 1817. From 1834 he was Curate of Cold Overton, Leicestershire, before becoming Rector of Knossington, Leicestershire 1845 until his death.

In June 1847 he was listed by the Cheltenham Journal as an “arrival” in Cheltenham, under the name “Rev. Mr. J. Connor”, of 10 Pittville Lawn (now 53 Pittville Lawn). He was involved with St Paul’s Church, in Cheltenham, where in 1847 he addressed the local branch of the London Hibernian Society, and in May 1848 officiated at the wedding of Mr William Davis. The Cheltenham Annuaire found him at the same address in Pittville Lawn in 1848. Assuming this is the right man, he was spending a short while away from Knossington, but returned there by mid 1848. His wife Ann died at Knossington in 1857, at the age of sixty-three.

Connor himself died at Knossington Rectory seven years later, in 1864, when he was seventy-two.

▶Moved to Pittville from:   Knossington, Leicestershire     Moved from Pittville to: Knossington, Leicestershire

▶Date of death:  23 June 1864     Place of death: Knossington, Leicestershire

▶Date of burial:         Place of burial:

▶Notes:        ID: 3776

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden