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Title: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: sadietoo on Sunday 09 April 06 13:53 BST (UK)
Can any one direct me to site that can help me find out a bit more about a rellie who was a Reverend in Staffordshire? Do the Church of England keep records?
As always thanks for taking the time to read this,  your help and interest very much appreciated
Cheers
Sadietoo
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: slightlyfoxed on Sunday 09 April 06 14:06 BST (UK)
Crockfords.
 
Annie
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: slightlyfoxed on Sunday 09 April 06 14:09 BST (UK)
go to your local reference library and look in Crockfords. There is an online version but  the library will give you more scope to search.
 good luck
Annie
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: sadietoo on Sunday 09 April 06 15:03 BST (UK)
Thanks Annie. Not only for your helpful reply, but also for being able to interpret my question!!!

Happy hunting
Sadietoo :)
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: LFS on Sunday 09 April 06 21:40 BST (UK)
Dear Sadietoo
If Crockfords fails you because you can't get access to a copy old enough, try writing to the Archivist, Lichfield Diocesan Office, Lichfield, Staffs. (preferably enclosing sae).  It's worth a try.
Best wishes
Linda
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: Little Nell on Sunday 09 April 06 22:07 BST (UK)
What date are we looking at - if he was alive in late 1890s, I may be able to help.

There is also this site:

http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/

but beware, it is a work in progress and nowhere near complete.

Nell
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: RuthieB on Tuesday 11 April 06 23:02 BST (UK)
Might be able to help here too! We have quite a few old Crockfords at the University - if you could let us have a date....


RuthieB
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: sillgen on Wednesday 12 April 06 08:44 BST (UK)
I have Crockfords for 1865 and 1951 so if he fits either of those let me know.
Andrea
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: kena on Wednesday 12 April 06 16:46 BST (UK)
Hi, is it worth contacting the church where they worked as well as I also have a couple of ancestors who were ministers about the first half of the 1700's.

Anna
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: sillgen on Wednesday 12 April 06 17:02 BST (UK)
Most churches will have a list of the incumbants, usually up on the wall somewhere, but not much more than that unless there are snippets about them in the actual register.  Often when they died it might say a bit about them with the burial register entry.
Andrea
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: kena on Wednesday 12 April 06 17:50 BST (UK)
Thanks very much for that, might try and contact the vicar sometime to get access into the church. So sad isn't it nowadays that you can't just walk into a church whenever you want to.

Thanks again

Anna
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: garethgriffiths on Wednesday 19 April 06 09:22 BST (UK)
Sorry to jump in on this link but as its about Crockfords Clerical Directory -

I am trying to find out about Reverend John Storr who once lived in the Goildenhill area Stoke on Trent, as for period circa 1840-1880.  I think Goldenhill St. John's would be the church but not certain.

Would someone please be kind enough to see if he's mentioned and maybe he served at other churches no doubt?  He married into the Tunstall family I am researching, his son was Thomas Norton Tunstall Storr.
regards Gareth
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: sillgen on Wednesday 19 April 06 09:44 BST (UK)
He is not in the 1865 one.  Sorry.   May have been too young.
Andrea
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: garethgriffiths on Wednesday 19 April 06 11:41 BST (UK)
Thanks for looking Andrea,
Oops, had another look at my family history project and he married 1812 in Wolstanton St, Margarets and was dead by 1841 census, sorry but I thought he was alive later than that.  Reminds me to be more accurate next time I post a message.  Thanks for looking.  Regards Gareth
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: RuthieB on Thursday 20 April 06 17:27 BST (UK)
If you can let me have a name and a date, I'll try and have a look for you..

RuthieB
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: garethgriffiths on Thursday 20 April 06 22:28 BST (UK)
Thanks Ruthie
his name was John Storr and I beleive he was a reverend sometime circa 1812-1841 period in Goldenhill and possibly elsewhere.  I am sorry its so broad but information so far is brief from census, I know he was a clerk beforehand.
thanks Gareth
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: RuthieB on Friday 21 April 06 16:04 BST (UK)
Sorry, no sign of him in our 1897 Crockfords. Probably a bit too late. There was another John Storr, but he was priested in 1868.

Sorry,
RuthieB
Title: Re: Do can I find out about an ordained family member?
Post by: Yeardelye on Monday 21 August 06 15:56 BST (UK)
Hi Gareth,

I just had a look at http://eagle.cch.kcl.ac.uk:8080/cce/index.html without realising that it was actually part of the same site mentioned in an earlier posting on this thread (http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/).

In any case, I did a quick search for a John Storr and it mentions one who was a curate in Horsley (Derbys, but in the same diocese as Stoke on Trent) in 1821. Could this be the person you are looking for? I have no idea whether clergy would have moved about much between different appointments back in those days.

I hope this might be of some help.

Regards,
Yeardelye