▶Date of birth:  (baptised) 6 August 1865        Place of birth: Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire

▶Father:  Edward Joseph Haynes     Mother: Isabella Phoebe Sykes

▶Spouse(s):  Margaret Jane Law    Date(s) of marriage:  2 July 1891     Place(s) of marriage: St Matthew’s Church, Cheltenham

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican); Schoolmaster

▶Lifestory: Charles Edward Haynes began his clerical career in Cheltenham, after which he enjoyed a succession of posts, by preference, it would seem, in the north of England. Haynes was born in Preston (baptised 1865), the third child and eldest son of the Revd. Edward Joseph Haynes, of Fulwood, Lancashire, and his wife Isabella Phoebe (née Sykes). He was educated privately; when the family moved to Little Marlow in Buckinghamshire Charles worked as a lay reader for his father, the new Vicar of Marlow. He entered Hertford College, Oxford in 1886, having obtained exemption from the first examination; “after the usual classical course” he took up theology as his special subject and graduated BA with honours in 1889, MA 1894.

Haynes was ordained Deacon in 1889, and Priest (both Gloucester and Bristol) in 1890. In 1889 he became the Curate of St Paul’s, Cheltenham 1889-90, and also taught at St Paul’s Training College for Schoolmasters, which he much enjoyed. In 1890 he was listed as living nearby, at 7 Clarence Square, Pittville. In 1890 he moved to become Third Curate of St Mary’s and St Matthew’s, Cheltenham. While in Cheltenham he undertook a children’s monthly service at St Matthew’s, attracting a congregation of some seven hundred, a Young Men’s Class, and its related football and cricket clubs.

He accepted a post as Secretary to the Zenana Medical Mission in London, but “circumstances altered his decision”, and he and the family in 1891 moved to Broadwater in Sussex, when he was appointed Curate of St Mary’s Church. Immediately after leaving Cheltenham, in 1891, he married (at St Matthew’s, Cheltenham) Margaret Jane, daughter of the Revd. Henry Law, Vicar of Chepstow; they had two daughters and a son. In Broadwater he helped to run the Scripture Union of the Seaside Mission, established a boys’ cricket club, and contributed to many other aspects of social life.

Despite being offered the Secretaryship of the Bible Society for the Oxford district, in 1894 he was appointed Vicar of Holy Trinity with St Matthew, Worthing, and became a Curate in 1900 at Eccleshall. In 1901 he was appointed Vicar of Emmanuel Church, Everton, and then became Vicar of St Andrew’s, Toxteth Park, Liverpool 1907-14.

A hard-working vicar, his succession of appointments continued when he became Vicar and Rural Dean of Ormskirk in Lancashire, and Chaplain of Ormskirk Union 1914-26, where he was installed as an Honorary Canon of Liverpool Cathedral 1918-26. In 1926 he moved to the Midlands, becoming Vicar of Belton, Leicestershire, until returning to Yorkshire as Vicar of Blakesley, Tadcaster 1932-8. After this he became a licenced preacher in the diocese of Manchester from 1938.

At the time of his death he lived at High Bank, Light Oaks Road, Pendleton; he died in hospital at Pendleton in 1949. His wealth at death was sworn at just over £5,800.

▶Moved to Pittville from: Oxford       Moved from Pittville to: Broadwater, Sussex

▶Date of death:  6 December 1949      Place of death: Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire

▶Date of burial:  December 1949       Place of burial: Barton churchyard, Barton-upon-Irwell

▶Notes:  Worthing Gazette 28 February 1894      ID: 5489

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden