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URL: www.natstand.org.uk/pdf/LeesE000.pdf Root person: Edwin Lees (1800 – 1887) Description: Family document Creation date: version 2.0 2018 November 18 Prepared by: Richard Middleton Notes:

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g/fa James Teverill (1750 – 1813.1.18) g/mo **1 married Mary Nicklin Pickard (1738 - 1780?) in 1774 aunt Maryanna Teverill (1776 - 1780) Birmingham mother 1Elizabeth Teverill (1777 – 1834.4.1) Birmingham **1 married Thomas Lees (1772 – 1809.6.30) at Worcester in 1797

 Edwin Lees (1800.5.12 – 1887.10.12) wife1 **1 married Sarah Wright Kingsbury (1804.3.21 – 1878.1.9) at Tewkesbury on 1827.7.26

No Issue wife2 **2 married 2Jane Matthews née Bridges (1834 – 1913.7.28) in Islington on 1883.8.3

No Issue step-son Joseph Bridges Matthews (1862 – 1928.8.5)

**2 married John W Goodman (c1777 – 1847.7.27) at Worcester on 1814.5.5

½brother 3James Teverill Goodman (1815.7.1 – 1834.9.11) Worcester

?aunt Ann Pickard Teverill (1779 - ?)

g/aunt **2 married Eleanor Pickard (1745 – 1824.12.22) on 1786.7.3

½aunt Mary Teverill (1787.10.10 - 1871.12.4) *** married John Vine Hall (1774.3.14 – 1860.9.22) on 1806.8.26

½cousin Edward Pickard Hall (1808.6.3 – 1886.11.6) *** married Anne Ralph () on 1836.4.13

six sons & “five or six” daughters

½cousin Stephen Prentis Hall (1810.5.6 – 1872.4.24) *** married Christina Christie Coutts Shelly () on 1841.2.18

Issue

½cousin John Vine Hall (1813.2.5 – 1892.12.25)

½cousin Rev. Christopher Newman Hall (1816.5.22 – 1902.2.18) **1 married 4Charlotte Gordon (1828/9 – 1903.7.5) on 1846.4.14 5divorced on 1880.2.17

No Issue

**2 married Harriet Mary Margaret Knipe (1841.7.4 – 1922.4.21) on 1880.3.29

No Issue

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½cousin Eleanora (Nora) Martha Hall (1818.4.2 – 1884.8.1) *** married Rev Thomas Allnutt (1819.8.18 – 1903.5.27) on 1840.7.3

Issue – 9+ children

½cousin Mary Hall (1819.12.22 – 1896.5.20) *** married Henry Allnutt (1815.9.3 – 1879.6.30) on 1841.3.10

Issue

½cousin Arthur Hall (1824.10.31 – 1919.3.30) *** married Ellen Jane Craig (1838.2.20 – 1926.10.1) on 1862.2.27

Issue – 14 children born alive

½cousin Emily Hall (1827.1.9 – young?)

½cousin Henry Warren Hall (1828.9.29 – 1901.6.27) **1 married Susan Sutcliffe Wood (c1840 – 1884) 1860.5.1

6Rev. William Newman Hall (1868 – 1915.10.12)

+2 daughters?

**2 married Kate Chapman (c1865 - ) on 1886.10.23

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1738 October 16: Baptisms Register, New Meeting House (Unitarian), Moor Street, Birmingham. Baptism of Mary Nicklin Pickard, daughter of Samuel and Anna Pickard.

1776 January 31: Baptisms Register, New Meeting House (Unitarian), Moor Street, Birmingham. Baptism of Maryanna Teverill, daughter of James and Mary Nicklin Teverill.

1777 October 15: Baptisms Register, New Meeting House (Unitarian), Moor Street, Birmingham. Baptism of Elizabeth, daughter of James and Mary Nicklin Teverill

1779 July 14: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Ann Pichard Tiverell [sic], daughter of Tiverell. From transcript of Birmingham nonconformists {Bull Ring}

1780 May 23: Burial of Mary Hannah daughter of James Teverill, Birmingham St Philip.

1786 July 3: Marriage of James Teverill (widower) and Eleanor Pickard at St Botolph, Bishopgate, London. Witnesses John and Mary Warren. [Interesting as this is too late to be Edwin’s granny. Since Elizabeth was born in about 1777 she must be Eleanor’s step-daughter!]

1787 November 8: Baptisms Register, New Meeting House (Unitarian), Moor Street, Birmingham. Baptism of Mary, daughter of James Teveril and [blank].

1791 June 16: Indenture between James Teverill of St. Johns Bedwardine, co. Worcester, farmer, Thomas Colmore of Birminghan, merchant, and Edward Blakemore, confectioner and Thomas King grocer, both of Birmingham, concerning premises in the Bull Ring, Birmingham. With Lease for a year dated 15 June MS 85/Acc1924-009/329139 (Birmingham City Archives)

1797: Pallot’s Marriage Index – Elizabeth Teverill married Thomas Lees of St Swithin, Worcester. 1797 December 14: *Bath Chronicle and Weekly News MARRIED, Mr. Lees, woollen-draper, of Worcester, to Miss Teverill.

1800 May 12: All Saints Worcester (Protestant & Dissenters’ Birth Registry) These are to certify that Edwin Lees, son of Thomas Lees and Elizabeth his wife, who was the daughter of James Teverill Of the parish of St John’s in the City of Worcester, was born in lawful wedlock in the parish of All Saints in the city of Worcester the twelfth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred … Registered at Dr William’s Library, Redcross- Street, near Cripplegate, London December 7th 1808.

1805 September 7: *Oxford Journal DIED – Mr Edward Teverill. Of Churchill, near Kidderminster.

1806 August 30: *Oxford Journal MARRIED – Mr. J. V. Hall, Bookseller, of Worcester, to Miss Teverill, of St. John’s. [This is Edwin’s aunt Mary and it shows how he became a book-seller. John Vine Hall moved back to Maidstone in 1814. John Vine Hall’s autobiography gives the date as 26th August.]

1808 June 3: Dr William’s Library, Redcross-street Edward Pickard Hall son of John Vine Hall and of Mary daughter of James Teverill born in the Parish of St Swithin City of Worcester - present Chrir Hebb, Eliz. Lees

1809 July 6: *Cheltenham Chronicle DIED. On Friday last died suddenly, Mr Lees, Woolen Draper, Broad-street, Worcester. 1809 July 12: *Hereford Journal DIED – Saturday, after a few hours illness, Mr. Thomas Lees, woollen-draper, of Worcester, aged 35. [Consensus - died 1809 June 30] - 4 of 15 - natstand: last updated 21/11/2018

1809 July 20: *Worcester Journal WOOLEN DRAPERY. To be DISPOSED OF, with early Possession, The STOCK and PREMISES of the late Mr. LEES, deceased, in Broad-street, in the city of Worcester. For a view of the same, apply to Mrs. Lees, on the premises; Mr. J. V. Hall, High-street; or W. Handy, Auctioneer. All Persons who have any Claim or Demand on the Estate and Effects of the said Mr. Lees, deceased, are required to send in the same to Mrs. Lees, his Widow, or Mr. Pickard, administrators of the Effects; and all Persons indebted, are desired to pay the same to Mrs. Lees, who is duly authorised to receive it. (One Concern.)

1809 August 24: *Worcester Journal (also on 17 inst) To be SOLD by AUCTION, By W. HANDY, on Monday and Tuesday, the 28th and 29th days of August, 1809, The entire neat and modern HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and other Effects, of Mr. LEES, deceased. at his late dwelling-house in Broad-street, in the city of Worcester ; Comprising handsome fourpost, tent and stump bedsteads, with fluted mahogany oak front pillars, with flowered cotton hangings, and window curtains to correspond, straw and wool mattrasses, seasoned goose feather beds, bolsters, and pillows, blankets and quilts, Kidderminster and Scotch floor, bedside and bed-round carpets and hearth rugs, set of mahogany Cumberland dining tables, neat inlaid mahogany card, Pembroke, dressing and night ditto, handsome chimney, pier, swing and dressing glasses, in ornamental gilt fames, neat mahogany, beech and other chairs, angle and square mahogany bason stands, chests with drawers. LINEN, CHINA and GLASS, several VERY VALUABLE PAINTINGS AND PRINTS, mahogany writing desk, neat time-piece, and capital eight-day click with case, several seasoned empty casks, quantity glass bottles, tubs, and complete assortment brewing and kitchen requisites, the whole of which will be more fully described in Catalogues that may had in due time at the place of sale, and of the Auctioneer, Worcester. The principal part the Furniture is in a good state preservation, having been laid in new within the last three years. The Sale will commence each morning precisely at ten o’clock. For other Sales by Mr. HANDY, see the first page.

1810 May 6: Dr William’s Library, Redcross-street These are to certify that Stephen Prentis son of John Vine Hall and of Mary his wife, who was Daughter of James Teverill of the Parish of St Clements in the city of Worcester was Born in lawful wedlock in the Parish of Saint Swithin in the City of Worcester the sixth Day of May in the Year One thousand Eight hundred and ten at whose Birth were present Christopher Hebb Surgeon, Elizabeth Lees

1813 January 21: *Worcester Journal On Monday, after a few days illness, Mr James Teverill, of St. John’s, near this city, aged 63. [Died 18 January] 1813 January 22: Burial of ..es Teverill at St John in Bedwardine, Worcester. Age 63

1813 February 5: Dr William’s Library, Redcross-street John Vine Hall son of John Vine Hall and of Mary daughter of James Teverill born in the Parish of St Swithin City of Worcester - present Chrir Hebb, Eliz. Lees

1814 May 5: St Clement, Worcester - Marriage of John Goodman (widowed) and Elizabeth Lees. 1814 May 12: *Worcester Journal MARRIED. Mr Goodman, Glover, of this city, to Mrs. Lees, of Henwick.

1815 August 20: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of James Teverill Goodman, son of John and Elizabeth Goodman at St Helen Pump-street Methodist Church, Worcester. Born 1 July 1815.

1815 October 10: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Henry Allnutt, son of Henry and Mary Anne Allnutt at Beckenham, Kent. Child born 1815 September 3.

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1816 May 22: Dr William’s Library, Redcross-street These are to certify that Christopher Newman son of John Vine Hall and of Mary his wife, who was Daughter of James Teverill of the Parish of St Clements in the city of Worcester was Born in lawful wedlock in the Parish of Maidstone in the County of Kent the twenty second Day of May in the Year One thousand Eight hundred and sixteen at whose Birth were present Mr Day Surgeon, Hannah Martin

1818 April 2: : Dr William’s Library, Redcross-street These are to certify that Eleanora Martha daughter of John Vine Hall and of Mary his wife, who was Daughter of James Teverill of the Parish of St Clements in the city of Worcester was Born in lawful wedlock in the Parish of Maidstone in the County of Kent the second Day of April in the Year One thousand Eight hundred and eighteen at whose Birth were present Thomas Day Surgeon, Hannah Martin

1819 August 18: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Thomas Allnutt, son of Henry and Mary Anne Allnutt at Beckenham, Kent. Child born 1819 July 3.

1819 December 22: Dr William’s Library, Redcross-street These are to certify that Mary Daughter of John Vine Hall and of Mary his wife, who was Daughter of James Teverill of the Parish of St John in the city of Worcester was Born in lawful wedlock in the Parish of Maidstone in the County of Kent the twenty second Day of December in the Year One thousand Eight hundred and nineteen at whose Birth were present Hannah Martin Jno Day MD

1824 October 31: Dr William’s Library, Redcross-street These are to certify that Arthur son of John Vine Hall and of Mary his wife, who was Daughter of James Teverill of Worcester was Born at High Street in the Parish of Maidstone in the County of Kent on the thirty first Day of May in the Year One thousand Eight hundred and twenty four at whose Birth we were present Thos Day, Surgeon Sarah Coville Midwife and Nurse. I do certify the above named Arthur is my son and was born at the time and place above mentioned J V Hall.

1824 December 22: John Hall Vine’s Journal DEATH OF MRS TEVERILL. Our joy of yesterday was interrupted this morning by the almost sudden death of our dear mother. It so happened in the providence of God that the dear and respected old lady, who once endeavoured to prevent my becoming the husband of her daughter, had long found a comfortable retreat in my house, and she had also become sincerely attached to me.

1824 December 30: *Worcester Journal DIED - Wednesday, 22d instant, at her residence in Maidstone, aged 80, Mrs Teveril, formerly of St. John’s and Henwick, near this city, where she was most deservedly esteemed by all who had the pleasure of her acquaintance.

1827 January 9: Dr William’s Library, Redcross-street These are to certify that Emily daughter of John Vine Hall and of Mary his wife, who was Daughter of James Teverill of Worcester was Born in the Parish of Maidstone in the County of Kent on the ninth day of January in the Year One thousand Eight hundred and twenty seven at whose Birth we were present Thos Day, Surgeon Sarah Coville {E Davis witnessed Sarah’s mark}. I do certify the above named Emily is my Daughter and was born at the time and place above mentioned J V Hall.

1827 August 2: *Worcester Journal MARRIAGES – July 26, at the Abbey Church, Tewksbury, by the rev. Charles White, Mr. Lees, printer and bookseller, of this city, to Sarah, third daughter of the late James Kingsbury, Esq of the former place.

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1828 January 8: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Charlotte Gordon, daughter of William and Mary Ann Gordon, at Welton with Melton, Yorkshire.

1828 September 29: Dr William’s Library, Redcross-street This is to certify and declare, that Henry Warren the son of John Vine Hall of Maidstone in the County of Kent Printer and Wine Merchant and Mary his wife (who was the daughter of James Teverill of St John’s Worcester in the City of Worcester – Yeoman) was born at the house of the said John Vine Hall No 83 in the High street Maidstone in the County of Kent on the twenty ninth day of September 1828. John Vine Hall; Mary Hall – the Parents above named We certify and declare that we were present at the Birth of the Child above-mentioned; and that such Birth took place at the time and place aforesaid. The mark of Sarah Covill of Maidstone, Nurse to the child Thos Day Surgeon of Maidstone

1833 October 28: Nonconformist registers. Eleanora Martha Pickard aged 88 years buried from Hackney. 1833 November 2: *Northampton Mercury Oct 20, at Saint Thomas’s-square, Hackney, Mrs. Pickard, relict of E. Pickard, Esq. in the 89th year of her age.

1834 April 5: * Worcester Herald April 1st, in the 57th year of her age, Mrs. Goodman, wife of Mr John Goodman, of Park- street, and relict of the late Mr. Thos. Lees, of this city. Exemplary in all the relations of her life, her native strength of mind, and ardent but unassuming piety, will long endear her memory to the relatives and friends who enjoyed her intercourse.

1834 May 15: Will of Elizabeth Goodman proved at London by John Evans and Edward Lees.

[Edwin Lees and James Teverill Goodman are cited as her sons. This will mentions money from Eleanora Martha Pickard, who had died the previous year and left her money.]

1834 September 18: *Worcester Journal DIED – On Thursday, in the 20th year of his age, after long suffering, endured with submission to the Devine will, Mr. J. Teverill Goodman, son of Mr. John Goodman, of the Bath-road, and grandson of the late Mr. Teverill, formerly of the Ivy-house, St. John’s, near this city.

1836 April 16: *Berkshire Chronicle MARRIAGES. On the 13th instant, at St, Mary le Strand, Mr Edward Pickard Hall, of Maidstone, to Ann, youngest daughter of Mr. Ralph, of the Strand.

1840 December 11: Baptism Register, Bocking Independent Chapel Baptism of Ellen Jane Craig, daughter of Edward George Craig of Braintree and Elizabeth his wife born 1838 February 20.

1840 July 11: *West Kent Guardian MARRIAGES. On the 3rd inst., at All Saints’ church, Maidstone, Mr. Thomas Allnutt, third son of Henry Allnutt, Esq., of Loose, to Eleanora Martha, eldest daughter of Mr. J. V. Hall, of Penendon-heath, Maidstone.

1841 February 18: India, Marriages, 1792-1948. Salt Lake City, Utah Marriage of Stephen Prentice Hall and Christina Christie Coutts Shell in Calcutta, Bengal.

1841 March 17: *Dublin Evening Mail

- 7 of 15 - natstand: last updated 21/11/2018 MARRIAGES. March 10, at All Saints Church, Maidstone, by the Rev. C. Row, M.A., Mr. Henry Allnutt, jun., of Tovil, to Mary, youngest daughter of Mr. J. Y.[sic] Hall, Penenden- heath, near Maidstone.

1841 July 29: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Harriet Mary Margaret Knipe, daughter of Edward Samuel and Frances Knipe, Bristol, Gloucestershire.

1846 April 17: *Hull Packet MARRIAGES. April 14, at Albion-street Chapel, in this town, by the Rev. J. Sherman, of London, the Rev. Newman Hall, B.A., to Charlotte, only daughter of William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., both of Hull.

1847 August 18: *Worcestershire Chronicle DIED – At Sidbury, in this city, Mr John W. Goodman, in the 77th year of his age. 1847 November 17: *Worcestershire Chronicle All Persons having any claim or demand upon the Estate of Mr. JOHN GOODMAN, late of Sidbury, in the City of Worcester, Glover, who died on or about the 27th day of July last, are requested to send an account thereof to Mr. John Smith, High-street, Worcester, or to Mr John Evans, 17, Upper Stamford street, London, on or before the 30th day of November instant, in order that the same may be examined, and if found correct, Discharged. November, 1847. [Note that Smith and Evans were the executors of James Teverill Goodman’s will in 1834.]

1860 May 4: *London Daily News MARRIAGES. HAALL – WOOD. – May 1, at Camden-road Chapel, by the Rev. N. Hall, LL.D., Henry Warren, son of J. V. Hall, Esq., of London, to Susan Sutcliffe, daughter of the lateS. Wood, Jun., Esq., of Orrell House, Sowerby-bridge, Yorkshire.

1862 January 22: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Joseph Bridges Matthews, son of John and Jane Matthews, at Claines, Worcester. [Joseph went on to be a barrister.]

1862 March 6: *Caledonian Mercury MARRIAGES. HALL – CRAIG – At the Congregational Church, Bocking, Essex, on the 27th ult., by the Rev. Thomas Craig and the Rev. Newman Hall, LL.B., the Rev. Arthur Hall, of Luddendon Foot, near Halifax, to Ellen Jane, second daughter of Edward George Craig, Esq., Mount House, Braintree, Essex.

1868: Civil Registration Index Birth of William Newman Hall registered in St Pancras, first quarter.

1871 December 9: *Hastings and St Leonards Observer DEATHS – December 4th, at St. Leonards-on-Sea, Mary, widow of the late Mr. John Vine Hall, author of “The Sinner’s Friend,” and mother of the Rev. Newman Hall, aged 84 years.

1872 February 24: Probate Register HALL Mary. 24 February. The Will with three Codicils (the second Codicil being contained in writings marked A and B) of Mary Hall formerly of Heath Cottage Junction-road Kentish Town but late of 9 The Parade Edmonton both in the County of Middlesex Widow who died 4 December 1871 at St Leonard’s-on-Sea in the County of Sussex was proved at the Principal Registry by Edward Pickard Hall of the University Press Oxford Printer to the University the Reverend Christopher Newman Hall of Surrey Chapel in the County of Surrey Independent Minister and Henry Warren Hall of 22 Rochester-road Camden Town in the County of Middlesex Printer and Publisher the Sons the Executors. Effects under £600

1872 August 9: Probate Register Records the death of Stephen Prentis (otherwise Prentice) Hall, formerly of Hong Kong but lately of Brixton, Surrey, on 1872 April 24. Will proved by John Steward Lapraik, merchant, Henry Warren Hall, printer and publisher (brother).

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1878 January 9: death of Sarah Wright Lees – memorial inscription, Pendock

1879 July 3: *London Evening Standard DEATHS. ALLNUTT. – June 30, at Alton, Hampshire, Henry Allnutt, formerly of Maidstone, Kent, and of Chilworth Mills, Surrey, aged 64.

1880 February 21: *Yorkshire Gazette THE NEWMAN HALL DIVORCE CASE. – In the Divorce Division of the High Court of Justice on Tuesday, the degree nisi for divorce, obtained by the Rev. Newman Hall against his wife, was made absolute without opposition. [He had first filed for divorce in 1873. Charlotte was not happy with the decree but she did marry the man named in the proceedings in August 1880.]

1880 April 3: *Yorkshire Gazette MARRIAGES. HALL – KNIFE[sic]. – On the 29th ult., at Christ church, Westminster Bridge Road, by the Rev. Henry Allon, D.D., assisted by the Rev. Henry Grainger and the Rev. Edwd. White, the Rev. Newman Hall, LL.B., minister of the same church, to Harriet Mary Margaret, eldest daughter of Edward S. Knife[sic], Esq., of Elvaston Place, Queen’s Gate, Kensington. [At the divorce proceedings Newman Hall had admitted that he intended to marry Harriet.]

1883 October 13: *Worcester Journal MARRIAGES – LEES – MATTHEWS. – Lately, at St Mary’s Church, Islington, London, by the Rev. Henry G. De Neveu, Edwin Lees, F.L.S., F.G.S., of Greenhill Summit, in this City, to Jane Matthews, of Hemmingford Road, Islington. [The 1891 census shows her at Greenhill Summit; she was born in Worcester St. John’s]

1884 September 27: The Sydney Mail, Australia DEATHS. ALLNUTT. – August 1, 1884, at the Rectory, Stibbard, Norfolk, England., Eleanora Martha, wife of the Rev. T. Allnutt, B.D.

1884: Civil Registration Index Death of Susan Sutcliffe Hall registered in St Pancras, last quarter.

1886 October 30: *Essex Standard MARRIAGES. HALL – CHAPMAN. – Oct. 23rd, at St. Luke’s Church, Oseney Crescent. N.W., by the Rev. C. H. Andrews, Vicar, Henry Warren Hall, of Rochester Road, N.W., to Kate, second daughter of the late John Chapman, of Bury St. Edmund’s.

[The marriage register entry was witnessed by ?? Morttock and Alice Chapman. Kate’s father was already deceased. In 1881 Kate(27) was lodging in Tormoham, Devon with her elder sister Agnes(29) and younger sisters Alice(23) and Selina(20).]

1886 November 13: *Oxford Journal THE LATE MR. E. PICKARD HALL. On the evening of Saturday, Nov. 6th, a distinguished citizen was taken from us. Mr. Edward Pickard Hall was born at Worcester on the 3rd of June, 1808, and was therefore in his 79th year. His father, Mr. John Vine Hall, was the compiler of " The Sinner's Friend," a little book which has obtained a circulation of more than three million copies. He derived his name Pickard from his grandmother, a niece of the Rev. Edward Pickard, one of the founders of the Orphan Working School. On leaving school, Mr. E. P. Hall was associated with his father in the conduct of the Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, which he edited for more than twenty years. Devoted to music and Church work, he was for some years voluntary Choirmaster and Organist at St. Peter's, Maidstone, and afterwards Precentor of All Saints, the collegiate Parish Church of that City. On removing to Bearsted he found the singing in Church led by the schoolmaster's flute, but soon obtained the substitution of an organ. Two years later he went to East Farleigh, then under the charge of the Rev. Henry Wilberforce. Here he acted as Organist and Choirmaster, and was in other ways most helpful to a Vicar whom he much esteemed. During this period of his life he was actively engaged in many public

- 9 of 15 - natstand: last updated 21/11/2018 duties, undertaking, amongst other honorary offices, the Secretaryship of various Agricultural and Horticultural Societies, as well as of the Maidstone Board of Health, and of the Irish Famine Fund, &c. In 1853, Mr. Hall became one of the partners of the Oxford Clarendon Press, and so continued until 1884. Besides supervising the discipline of the Institution, he here took charge of the Boys' Night School four nights a week in the winter months, and directed the Men's Brass Band, and the Boys' Drum and Fife Band. Mr. Hall assisted in founding the Oxford Churchmen's Union, was for many years a member of its Council, and for some time the Lay Honorary Secretary. In this connection he was associated with the Rev. W. D. Macray in the management of those Saturday Evening Entertainments at the Town Hall, which are now resumed under other auspices. He was also, for some time, President of the North Oxford Working Men's Club, to which he gave lectures, readings, and concerts. For many years he was an ardent Volunteer, and in 1866 was appointed Captain of one of the Companies, which consisted largely of employés at the Press. Mr. Hall greatly valued the various tokens of respect which he received from time to time from those whom he had tried to serve. Among these may be mentioned the acknowledgment of his services as first volunteer organist at St. Giles's Church, where a barrel-organ reigned as late as 1853. But that which he regarded as the crowning honour of his life was the presentation to him of the Honorary Degree of M.A. by the University of Oxford, on March 6, 1877, and his subsequent association with Keble and with Hartford Colleges. While he lived at the Clarendon Press he was a generous helper to all good works at St. Paul's, and one of the most regular worshippers at its daily services. On removing to the Norham Road, in St. Philip's Parish, he gave his aid and presence to the different organisations of that Church, of which he was Sidesman when he died. He was buried at St. Sepulchre's Cemetery on Wednesday, the 10th inst. at a quarter-past one in the afternoon … Mr. Hall was author of an "Index to the Authorised Version of the Bible," and also of a short “History of Printing." He was married in 1836 to Anne, daughter of James Ralph, Esq., who survives him, with their six sons and five of six daughters.

1887 October 22: *Worcester Journal DEATHS - LEES. – October 21, at his residence, The Summit, Greenhill, Worcester, Edwin Lees, F.L.S., F.G.S. in the 88th year of his age. Friends please accept this the only intimation.

1887 Probate: LEES Edwin. 1 December The will of Edwin Lees late of Greenhill Summit in the Parish of St. peter-the-Great in the City of Worcester Gentleman who died 21 Ocober 1887 at Greenhill Summit was proved at the Principal Registry by Jane Lees of Greenhill Summit Widow the Relict the sole Executrix. Personal Estate £2,370 10s. 10d.

1892 December 27: *Pall Mall Gazette DEATH OF A CAPTAIN OF THE "GREAT EASTERN." Captain John Vine Hall, who commanded the Great Eastern steam ship after the death of Captain Anderson, died early on Christmas Day at his residence, Avenue-road, Hampstead, after a long illness, in his eightieth year. At the age of 14 he began his long nautical life as a midshipman on board the East India Company's ship Inglis. In a few years he became third officer of the Lord Amherst, another of the company's great ships, which in a hurricane off the mouth of the Hooghly was left with broken back, high and dry, half a mile beyond high-water mark. During the Crimean war he was conveying the first detachment of Sardinian troops to Balaclava, when, soon after leaving Genoa, the coals became ignited by spontaneous combustion. Examining the shore, he took the wheel and steered the vessel upon the nearest accessible spot. All on board were safely landed. Captain Hall was the last to leave the ship, which at once burst into flames from stem to stern. He was then appointed to the Great Eastern on her first ocean voyage to New York, where his arrival was the occasion of a great demonstration. Afterwards he resided a few years at Sydney as manager of the ships of the Panama and Australia Steam Shipping Company. One of his brothers is the Rev. Newman Hall.

1896 May 30: *Norwood News

- 10 of 15 - natstand: last updated 21/11/2018 DEATHS. ALLNUTT. – On the 20th inst., at 59, Selhurst-road, South Norwood, Mary Allnutt, widow of Henry Allnutt, formerly of Maidstone, Kent, and Chilworth, Surrey, aged 76 years. Friends will kindly accept this, the only intimation.

1901 September 24: Probate Register Records the death of Henry Warren Hall, stationer of Hampstead, Middlesex, on 1901 June 27. Probate to George Brown Hillman, surgeon, and Edwin Priddey, stationer.

1902 February 18: *St James’s Gazette DEATH OF DR- NEWMAN HALL. THE VETERAN CHAMPION OF NONCONFORMITY. Dr. Newman Hall died this morning at his residence, Vine House, Hampstead Heath, aged eighty-six. The news of his death will be received with regret, not only by members of the Congregational Church, of which he was a distinguished ornament, but by all sections of Nonconformists and Church people who recognised in him a powerful champion of Evangelical dogma, a firm friend, and an honest opponent. For many years Dr. Newman Hall (his D.D. degree was conferred by Edinburgh University) and Mr. Spurgeon were the "rival stars”—if the expression may be used—of London Nonconformity. Both were rigidly orthodox, both were gifted with uncommon powers oratory, both were filled with a burning zeal for the salvation of souls. In the case of Mr. Spurgeon the appeal to the people was directly to heart and conscience, to their common-sense and their imagination; with Dr. Newman Hall the appeal was more to the intellect, to the feeling of brotherhood among men, to their political and social inerests [interests]. Dr. Hall was not only preacher of righteousness; he sought to be a social reformer, though he studiously avoided all socialistic clap-trap. His thirty-eight years pastorate in south London made him well known to every section of the community, and to go and hear Dr. Newman Hall was one of the things which every visitor to the Metropolis was expected to do. And few came away disappointed. With Americans he was particularly popular. Dr. Hall, as he was known by the younger generation, was a man of charming personality, tall, of fine presence, vigorous and alert in all his movements, mountaineering was his favourite recreation. He was familiar with Switzerland and with the Welsh hills. On one occasion when past seventy years of age he climbed Snowden twice in one day, being disappointed on the first occasion because a mist robbed him of the view. He had also a passion for travel, and had visited Norway, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Palestine, and other countries, and several times crossed the Atlantic. He had some ability as a water-colour artist, and used to bring home pictorial representations of places he had visited. Equipped with a fair amount of scholarship, and a larger knowledge of human nature, Dr. Hall was of the best type of the Nonconformist divine. Some biographical details are appended:- Dr. Hall was the fourth sen of the late Mr. John Vine Hall, and brother of Captain J. V, Hall, who commanded the ‘‘Great Eastern” steamship on her first voyage across the Atlantic. Born at Maidstone, May 22, 1816, he was educated at Totteridge and at Highbury College, and graduated B.A. at the London University. In 1855 he look the degree of LL.B., and won the law scholarship. He was appointed minister of the Albion Congregational Church, Hull, in 1842, and remained at that post till 1854, when he succeeded the Rev. James Sherman as minister of Surrey Chapel, known as Rowland Hill’s Chapel, in the Blackfriars Road, London. When the civil war in the United States broke out, he advocated the Northern cause in the interests of Union and Freedom. He afterwards made two extensive tours in the United States “for the purpose of allaying the bitter feeling towards Great Britain, and of promoting international good-will.” Lincoln Tower,” 220 feet high, adjoining “Christ Church’’ in Westminster Bridge Road, was built in commemoration of Abraham Lincoln, from funds subscribed by Americans and English. The church itself, erected chiefly by his congregation when the lease of the old chapel in the Blackfriars Road expired, is one of the chief ecclesiastical structures in London, in thirteenth-century Gothic; it is seated for 2,000 persons. The total cost, including freehold site, was ,£63,000, mostly obtained by Mr. Newman Hall’s efforts; in token of which the congregation erected in the church an alabaster pulpit of great beauty. Numerous devotional treatises were written by Dr. Newman Hall, one of which, entitled “Come to Jesus,” reached a circulation of nearly three millions, in upwards of twenty languages. Among his other books were; “Short Memoir of Rev. Rowland Hill”; “Homeward Bound”; “The Land of the Forum and the Vatican, or Thoughts and Sketches during an Easter Pilgrimage to Rome ”; a small volume of devotional poetry, entitled, “Pilgrim Songs

- 11 of 15 - natstand: last updated 21/11/2018 in Cloud and Sunshine,” 1871; also “Mountain Musings”; a tractate on “Prayer: its Reasonableness and Efficacy,” 1875; and several small works teetotalism, of which he was an earnest advocate during forty years. He also edited an autobiography of his father, entitled Conflict and Victory”, and more recently issued Lyrics of a Long Life.”

1903 July 31: Probate Register Records the death of Rev Thomas Allnutt at the Rectory, Stibbard, Norfolk, on 1903 May 27. Probate to Ellen Allnutt, Margaret Alice Allnutt, Edith Allnutt and Laura Allnutt, spinsters.

1903 August 14: Probate Register Records the death of Charlotte Richardson, wife of Frank Waters Richardson, at Battersea on 1903 July 5. Probate granted to her husband.

1913 August 1: *Nottingham Journal OBITUARY … Another link with the great Australian poet. Adam Lindsay Gordon, has passed away at Holly Bank, Worcester, this week, through the death of Mrs. Jean Lees, who as Gordon’s first love, formed the subject of a chapter in “Adam Lindsey Gordon and his friends in England and Australia,’' the book in which Mr. Douglas Sladen collaborated with Mrs. E. M. Humphris. Mrs. Lees was a daughter of a gentleman farmer named Bridges who lived at Broughton Hackett, near Worcester. Her sister, Sally Bridges, married Gordon’s bosom friend, Charley Walker, to whom the poet wrote his unforgettable letters. Mrs. Lees inspired several of Gordon’s poems. She refused an offer marriage from Gordon which, if it had been accepted, would have stopped him going Australia. She was twice married, first to Mr. Matthews, father of Mr. J. B. Matthews, one of the leaders of the Bar, and secondly to Mr. Edwin Lees, the eminent naturalist. [The Probate Register 1913 October 8 gives her date of death as 1913 July 28.]

1919 April 12: Hastings and St Leonards Observer REV. ARTHUR HALL DIES AT AGE OF 94. SKETCH OF A GREAT PERSONALITY. A large and representative congregation assembled on Thuresday [sic], 3rd inst. in Mount Pleasant Congregational Church in connection with the funeral service for the late Rev. Arthur Hall. In addition to the deacons and leading members the church, which he was the minister for ten years and member to the day his death, the local churches, the Ministers' Fraternal Association, of which was a member, and the Free Church Council, were represented by the Revs. Edward Barlow. J. A. Gray (President of the Free Church Council), W. E. Shaw, A. Parker, D. Henry A. Goodall, E. F. Goodfellow, Henry Varley, J. Lloyd-Davies. J. G. Radford, and J. C. Thompson (Bexhill), Alderman W. Mannington, J.P., Councillor J. Fred Kelly, and Councillor Henry Samson, J.P., among many others. The late President the F. C. Council (Mr. R. F. Compton) was unable to be present owing a severe cold. The Rev. A. Seys Howell, for several years the minister of St. Leonards Congregational Church, and the Rev. C. B. Sawday were the officiating ministers. After the singing of Dr.Matheson’s hymn, "O Love that wilt not let go," the scripture lesson was read by Mr. Howell. A tender and comprehensive prayer was offered by Mr. Sawday. After the singing of "Rock Ages cleft for me,” Mr. Sawday delivered an address. He stated that it was the desire the departed that, should the Rev. Howell survive him, he should conduct the funeral service; if that were not possible, Mr. Sawday should take his place. Mr. Howell happened to be in the town when their friend passed away, but he was too unwell to give the address. The speaker then gave a brief sketch of the life of his friend. He was born at Maidstone in 1825. His father, John Vine Hall, was in business there. He was a deeply religious man, and his little book, "The Sinner’s Friend," had been printed and circulated in the English version in very large numbers, while it had been translated into thirteen languages. Arthur decided that he would be a sailor. Two elder brothers were already sailors and had suffered shipwreck, but this was not sufficient cool the ardour of the youth for the sea. He was apprenticed for four years to firm of shipowners, and he made his first voyage in the “Red Rover.” During the fifteen months of the voyage he had thrilling experiences and hairbreadth escapes, but upon his return he was as eager ever for sailor's life. The passion for the sea was his blood. Only the earnest entreaties of his parents at length prevailed with him to settle down with his father in business at Maidstone. There he remained for

- 12 of 15 - natstand: last updated 21/11/2018 several years and prospered greatly. But at length he felt the call to the Christian ministry, to which his elder brother, Newman, had already devoted himself. He received his theological training at New College, London. He undertook the pastoral oversight of the church at Luddendenfoot 1859, and remained there four years. Next he was the minister the church at Edmonton. London, for ten years; of the church at Tolmer's Square, in the same city, for nine years; of the church at Clifton Down, Bristol, from 1882-83; and of Zion Church, in the same city, for one year. Then he returned to London as the minister of Craven Chapel, off Regent-street, where he remained four years. It was one of the historic Congregational Churches of London, especially famous as the scene of the long ministry of Dr.Leifchild; but had fallen on evil days, and his work there was diffiicult. IN 1890 HE CAME TO HASTINGS as the second minister of the new church Mount Pleasant, and for ten years exercised a gracious and successful ministry there. He retired in 1900. His ministry throughout was evangelical in the best sense, and many were added to the Church of Christ through that ministry. But he probably did even more by his life and personality. His life was one continuous sermon. How gracious he was. His manner had all the charm of an old world courtesy. How cheerful he was. During their long intimacy had never known him be depressed. His son had assured him that he had never known his father to be castdown. He was ever hopeful and bright. looked on the sunny side of things, and because knew that “God was in His heaven” he knew that all was all right with the world. Mr. Sawday said that Mr. Hall had expressed the hope that he might be in the full possession of his senses when the call should come, so that he might able carry with him into the higher life his experience of the passage from this life into the next. Was not his wish granted? A week ago he was out in his garden using his axe. To the end his mind was clear, and with that unflinching courage which had characterised his life, he passed to the higher service with the music of some of his favourite hymns gently falling upon his fading senses. A long, gracious and useful life found at length a fitting close. After singing some verses of the hymn, "My faith looks to Thee”, the Benediction was pronounced, and the funeral procession left the Church to the strains of “O rest in the Lord” . The Rev. C. B. Sawday officiated at the graveside. The funeral arrangements were in the competent hands of Mr. W. B. Hinkley, 52, Mount Pleasant and Emmanuel-road. [The Probate Register of 1919 July 29 records that he died on 1919 March 30.]

1915 December 29: Probate Register Records the death of Rev William Newman Hall of Dorridge, Warwickshire, on 1915 October 12. Probate to Alice Hall, widow.

1922 April 29: *Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette The Late Mrs. Newman Hall. [Illustration] Widow of the Rev. Christopher Newman Hall, the famous Congregationalist divine, died on Friday at 26, Queen Square, Bath, where she had resided for about the last five years. Mrs. Hall would have completed her 81st year had she lived until July 4.

1926 October 9: *Hastings and St Leonards Observer A FAMOUS MINISTER’S WIDOW. – The death occurred on Friday of Mrs. Hall, widow of the late Rev. Arthur Hall, formerly minister of Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, and brother of Dr. Newman Hall. Mrs. Hall, who was in her 88th year, had been ill for six or seven weeks, and she passed peacefully away at 10.15 p.m. …

1928 August 9: *Western Daily Press THE SHOT RECORDER. Burial in Village Churchyard. The funeral of Mr Joseph. Bridges Matthews, K.C., Recorder of Dudley, who shot himself at his shooting box at Rhydd, Worcestershire, on Sunday, took place yesterday at the little churchyard of St. Mary's, Hanley Castle. The grave was close that of Captain Dealty, Richmond, who while acting as gamekeeper to Mr Matthews four ago fell dead when out shooting with him. The family mourners included the widow and Mrs S. B. Durnford and Mrs S B. Ridgwell (daughters). Others present were Mr. H. Monk (for 30 years confidential clerk to Mr Matthews), Mr R. J. White (solicitor to the family), Miss Haywood (housekeeper) Mr Hays (gamekeeper), Alderman W. Bradford (Deputy Mayer of Dudley),

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Notes:

1 1836: The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine v 59 p735 “ … Her parents were Unitarians, and she, as a matter of course, was educated in the same creed. She received her first religious instructions from the celebrated Dr. [Joseph] Priestly, of whom she ever spoke with much affection, as being a kind and amiable man in private life and a most assiduous and attentive Pastor … “

2 Jane Matthews

1834 March 16: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah Baptism of Jane, daughter of Joshua and Ann Bridges, at Bedwardine – St John, Worcester. [The 1851 census hints that Jane’s step-mother, Mary, may have been a Matthews.]

1857 January 24: *Worcester Herald MARRIAGES. Jan 17th, at Claines Church, by the Rev. Wm. Crowther, Incumbent, Mr. John Matthews, auctioneer, to Jane, eldest daughter of the late Joshua Bridges, both of this city.

1879 October 17: Probate Register Records the death of John Matthews, auctioneer of Worcester, on 1879 August 19. Will proved by relict Jane Matthews and son John Matthews. [The Worcester Chronicle of 1879.8.23 mistakenly prints his date of death as 9th. He was 70 years old.]

Jane had a son, Joseph Bridges Matthews (c1861 - ) and a step-children John (c1835 - ) and Sarah E Matthews (c1839 - ).

3 In His will of 1834 February 1 John Teverill Goodman directs his executors (John Smith, brush- maker and John Evans, chemist & druggist) to pay the interest on the the £500 left to him by Eleanora Martha Pickard to his father John Goodman and on his death pay the capital to his brother Edwin Lees. When it was proved Edwin Lees was also mentioned as an executor.

[The 1841 census shows that he had at least two half-siblings, John and Ann.]

4 1880 October 19: *Bury and Norwich Post MARRIED. On the 30th Aug., at the Registry Office, Great Yormouth, FRANK WATERS RICHARDSON, to Mrs. CHARLOTTE GORDON (formerly Hall), daughter of the late Dr. Gordon, of Hull.

5 For more information of the circumstances of this divorce see

Larsen, T. 2004. Contested Christianity: The political and social contexts of Victorian Christianity. Baylor University Press. Waco, Texas. Chapter 2.

6 1901 November 17: *Northern Whig MARRIAGES. HALL – CHAPMAN – November 11, at the Congregational Church, Stamford Hill, London, N., by the Rev. Newman Hall, LL.B., uncle of the bridegroom, assisted by the Rev. J. M. Gibbon, the Rev. William Newman Hall, only son of Mr. Henry Warren Hall, of Hampstead, to Alice, third daughter of the late John Chapman, of Bury St. Edmunds. [Is this his step-mother’s younger sister?]

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