CHRISTOPHER•ALLEN•SMITH•WINTON Family Tree - Person Sheet
CHRISTOPHER•ALLEN•SMITH•WINTON Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameRev. Joseph Leslie CHOWN [545], 2C2R
Birth Date11 Aug 1890 [545], [872], [462], [2192]
Birth PlaceWillesden, Middlesex, England
MemoBMD Births Sep Quarter 1890, Hendon District, Vol.3a, p.196
Census Date5 Apr 1891 [872] Age: <1
Census PlaceWillesden, Middlesex, England
Memo“Springsfield”
Census Date31 Mar 1901 [545] Age: 10
Census PlaceWillesden, Middlesex, England
Memo17 Brondesbury Park
Death Date1982 [892], [626], [2192]
Death PlaceWolverhampton, West Midlands, England
MemoBMD Deaths: Dec Quarter 1982, age 92, Wolverhampton Registration district, vol.34, p.644
Alias/AKALeslie [120]
OccupationBaptist minister at Waterloo Road Baptist Church in Wolverhampton [120], [626]
EducationSt. Paul’s School, admitted, January, 1904. [977]
EducationRawdon [120]
FatherJohn CHOWN (1853-1922)
MotherLaura Elizabeth CARR (1861-<1901)
Misc. Notes
Listed as 8 months old in the 1891 census. [872]

Author of Reunion Source No.124 [124].

Sailed from Southampton, England, to New York, NY, in July, 1939, on the S.S. Queen Mary. Reported residence at the time was Longfield Compton Rd., Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. [814] Unable to locate record of return trip to England; searched 1939-1949.

He was still the minister when they demolished the Waterloo Road Baptist Church in Wolverhampton. That was in July 1970. [626]

"He would purchase oil/silk ponchos and leggings which would keep him dry as he cycled around to minister to his flock." [908]

Member of the Rotary Club of Wolverhampton, England. [1463]

Author of "The Life and Times of Winston S. Churchill" [1463] (Whitehead Bros. 1945; listed by Google but no preview available; unable to locate a copy via WorldCat).
Spouses
Birth Dateca 1898
Memoassumption based on possible match in BMD index
Research
Possible birth record match: Sep. Qtr. 1898, NEWTON, Clara Alice. Wolverhampton registration district, vol.6b, p.553 [462]
Marr Date1919 [462]
Marr PlaceWolverhampton District, England
Marr MemoBMD Marriages Sep Qtr 1919; CHOWN, Joseph L & Clara A Newton, Wolverhampton District, vol.6b, p.1649
Children(Private)
 Leslie Newton (1926-2013)
Last Modified 16 Aug 2015Created 23 Jun 2022 using Reunion for Macintosh
First Published 22 Sep 2013. Revised 23 Jun 2022
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