Walden, James (1840-1872)

Family

James was born in 1840 at Hornton, Oxfordshire, to parents James, a blacksmith (1851) and Mary.

Census returns identify the following occupations for James.

• 1861 blacksmith
• 1871 student of theology

He married Margaret Sarah Howell (1848-1928) in the summer of 1870 in the Monmouth Registration District, Monmouthshire. Census returns identify one child.

• Mary Elizabeth Eleanor (1871-1928) – emigrated to New Zealand; married Robert Duncan in 1894

James died in the summer of 1872 in the Bridgewater Registration District, Somerset.

Margaret married William Dowle, a blacksmith, in 1874 and emigrated to New Zealand.

Circuits

• 1867 Bristol
• 1869 Pilowell
• 1870 Seend Cove
• 1871 disappears
• 1872-3 Knowle, Somerset – Congregational minister

References

W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990

Surman Index id: 28356

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers