▶Date of birth:  18 April 1806        Place of birth: Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales

▶Father: [uncertain]     Mother: [uncertain]

▶Spouse(s):  Elizabeth Drakeford    Date(s) of marriage:  31 March 1841     Place(s) of marriage: Independent Chapel, Ulverston, Cumbria

▶Occupation: Independent minister

▶Lifestory: John was appointed Minister of Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire in 1836, and became Minster of Tamworth 1837-9. He had an itinerant ministry as a Congregational Unionist in Furness 1839-45, and in 1841 he married Elizabeth Drakeford, of Tamworth, Warwickshire (they had five sons and one daughter). He became Minister of Newtown, Montgomeryshire 1845-6, and then Independent Minister of Marton, Shropshire and Forden, Montgomeryshire from 1846 until around 1853.

In 1851 he had four children to maintain at his own expense, on an annual salary of £45, and entered his nine-year-old son Robert as a candidate for the Congregational School in Lewisham, Kent. After Marton he moved to Bromyard, Herefordshire as the Independent Minister of the Sherford Street Chapel, living next door to the chapel. He next went, in 1878, to Cheltenham, where he served for some years as an Independent Minister, living from 1880 at 12 Leamington Place (now 30 Prestbury Road). His wife died at Cheltenham on 21 August 1887, and he died several weeks later at Bromyard, at the age of eighty-one.

▶Moved to Pittville from:  Bromyard, Herefordshire      Moved from Pittville to: elsewhere in Cheltenham

▶Date of death:   5 October 1887      Place of death: Bromyard, Herefordshire

▶Date of burial:         Place of burial:

▶Notes:        ID: 8934

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden