CHRISTOPHER•ALLEN•SMITH•WINTON Family Tree - Person Sheet
CHRISTOPHER•ALLEN•SMITH•WINTON Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameRev. Joseph Parbury CHOWN [10], [99], [445], [865, In footnotes.], GGG Uncle
Birth PlaceKingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, England
Bapt Date28 Mar 1822 [10], [445] Age: <1
Bapt PlaceKingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, England
MemoAll Saints-Wesleyan Methodist
Bapt Date23 May 1841 [1452] Age: 19
Bapt PlaceKingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, England
Memo“in the little river near Kingsthorpe”
Census Date6 Jun 1841 [1582] Age: 19
Census PlaceHigh Street, Spellhoe Hundred, Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, England
Census Date30 Mar 1851 [1488] Age: 29
Census PlaceHorton, Borough of Bradford, Yorkshire, England
Memo8 William Street
Census Date7 Apr 1861 [905] Age: 39
Census PlaceBradford, Yorkshire, England
Memo139 Springfield House, Bowling
Census Date2 Apr 1871 [906] Age: 49
Census PlaceBowling, Bradford, Yorkshire, England
MemoSpringfield House, Hall Lane
Reside Date1880 [7397]
Reside PlaceLondon, England
MemoNo. 24 Marlborough Hill (N.W.)
Census Date3 Apr 1881 [444], [2784] Age: 59
Census PlaceMarylebone, London, Middlesex, England
Memo24 Marlborough Hill. Still residing at this address at the time that he wrote his will (1884).
Death Date8 Jul 1886 [120], [121], [742], [4080] Age: 64
Death PlaceSt. John, Marylebone, London, Middlesex, England
Memo24 Marlborough Hill
Alt.SpellingJoseph Burbery [905]
OccupationShoemaker (age 19) [1582]
OccupationBaptist Minister: Ravensthorpe Baptist Church 1844-1846 [1452], [120], [150], [868, page 220]
OccupationBaptist Minister: Sion Chapel, Bradford 1848-1875 [99], [150], [868, page 221], [1452], [1488]
OccupationBaptist Minister: Bloomsbury Chapel, London 1875-1885 [150], [868, page 221], [1452], [444]
OccupationPresident of the Baptist Union [4070]
EducationHorton College, Bradford, 1846-1848 [868, page 220], [150], [1452], [4070]
FatherJohn CHOWN (ca1798-1852)
MotherAnne PARBERRY (1796-1834)
Misc. Notes
In 1841 he was living with his uncle, William STANTON, on the same street in Kingsthorpe that his father lived on. He would have been 19 at the time of the 1841 census but because of the system of rounding he was listed as 15. [1582]
Removed from Ravensthorpe to Horton College, Bradford, 1846. [150]
Residence at time of marriage: Bradford, Yorkshire, England [99]
Removed to post in London at Bloomsbury Chapel, 1875. [150]

His baptism was performed by Maximilian Wilson ( [10]) who is listed in “The Wesleyan Methodist Itinerancy” (p.171) by Rev. Joseph Hall (London: Haughton & Co., 1873), thus confirming that the baptism was in a Methodist church. He was, however, baptized again in 1841. [1452]

On 1-Jun-1865, he gave an address at the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, in New York City. On this same trip to America he visited the White House and met President Andrew Johnson. [909], [911], [4498] So far, no passenger list has been found to document how he arrived in New York, but perhaps he came via Canada, which generally doesn’t have passenger records from that time period.

He was “a decided abstainer and temperance advocate.” [1452] “a leader of the temperance movement” [868]

Source [911] mistakenly says Joseph’s father was Thomas, who actually was his grandfather. See also Source [122] where the relationship is stated correctly. While there is no doubt that Joseph’s father was John, the knowledge that John’s father was Thomas, has only come from newspaper articles.
Spouses
Birth PlaceKingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, England
Memoage 35 in 1861 census; 45 in 1871; 55 in 1881; 74 in 1901
Bapt Date9 Oct 1825 [546], [4500], [4499], [5556]
Bapt PlaceKingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, England
MemoOr 4 Oct 1825
Census Date31 Mar 1851 [1488]
Census PlaceHorton, Borough of Bradford, Yorkshire, England
Memo8 William Street
Census Date7 Apr 1861 [905]
Census PlaceBradford, Yorkshire, England
Memo139 Springfield House, Bowling
Census Date2 Apr 1871 [906]
Census PlaceSpringfield House, Hall Lane, Bowling, Bradford, Yorkshire, England
Census Date3 Apr 1881 [444]
Census PlaceMarylebone, London, Middlesex, England
Memo24 Marlborough Hill
Census Date5 Apr 1891 [872]
Census PlaceWillesden, Middlesex, England
Memo“Springsfield”
Census Date31 Mar 1901 [545]
Census PlaceWillesden, Middlesex, England
Memo17 Brondesbury Park
Death Dateaft 31 Mar 1901 [545]
FatherJohn WATERFIELD (~1793-)
MotherSarah SMITH (~1792-)
Misc. Notes
Residence at time of marriage: Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, England [99]
Research
Possilbe death record: Elizabeth CHOWN, age 75, March Qtr. 1902. Hendon registration district (Middlesex), vol. 3a, p. 181
Marr Date30 May 1850 [99]
Marr PlaceNorthampton, Northamptonshire, England
Marr Memowitnesses William Chown and W. Waterfield
ChildrenJoseph Waterfield (1851-<1884)
 John (1853-1922)
Last Modified 27 Feb 2019Created 23 Jun 2022 using Reunion for Macintosh
First Published 22 Sep 2013. Revised 23 Jun 2022
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