▶Date of birth:  6 July 1822        Place of birth: Dublin, Ireland

▶Father:  Mark Monsarratt     Mother: (unknown)

▶Spouse(s): (1) Jane Johnson; (2) Eleanor Jane Hallowes     Date(s) of marriage: (1) 20 April 1853; (2)  7 October 1869    Place(s) of marriage: (1) St Peter’s, Dublin; (2) Monkstown, Co. Dublin

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: Henry Monsarratt served as a Curate of St Mary’s Church in Cheltenham in the early 1860s. He was born in Dublin in 1822, the son of Mark Monsarratt, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin,  degree examination (second grade) 1854, BA 1855, MA 1860. In 1853, when he lived at Waterloo Road in Dublin, he married Jane, eldest daughter of Charles Johnson Esq., MD, of Merrion-Square South, Dublin. He took holy orders and was ordained Deacon and Priest (Chester, by letters dimissory from the Bishop of Dublin) in 1856. From 1856 he spent some time as Assistant Chaplain to the Dublin Female Penitentiary, until 1857, when he was licensed as Curate of Carysfort, Dublin.

Then, by 1861, he moved over to England, working as Curate of St Mary’s Church, Cheltenham until 1865; in early 1861 he moved house from Lansdown Parade, Cheltenham to 7 York Terrace. He is listed as attending a meeting of the Irish Scripture Readers’ Society in Cheltenham in 1862. In 1863 he and his wife lived at 43 Montpellier Terrace, and in 1865, during his final year in the town, he is recorded as living at 3 Pittville Parade (now 6 Evesham Road).

He left Cheltenham in 1865 to take up the post of Perpetual Curate at St Thomas’s, Kendal, where he remained until his death. In Kendal he was also a Member of the Kendal Literary and Scientific Institution, to which in 1868 he donated “several Roman coins”. After the death of his wife in 1867, he married again, in October 1869, in Monkstown, Dublin, to Eleanor Jane, eldest daughter of Keith Hallowes, of 25 Crosthwaite Park, Kingstown, Co. Dublin; they had at least four daughters and one son.

Monsarratt died in 1901, while still Incumbent of St Thomas’s Church in Kendal. His estate at death was sworn at under £350 in England, with an additional £65 in Ireland.

▶Moved to Pittville from:  Montpellier Terrace, Cheltenham      Moved from Pittville to: Kendal, Cumbria

▶Date of death:    11 September 1901    Place of death: Kendal

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▶Notes:        ID: 3912

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden