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03-10-09, 21:33
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The gremlins must be out as Soundex didn't find Fuggle when I had entered Fuggles lol
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03-10-09, 21:39
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I am really pleased I have tidied up this lot. They are part of my clergy research. Emma married James Edwards who was a coal miner and their son became a C of E Priest and was a missionary in Melanesia. He taught priests in the Solomon Islands. He was "high" church and his legacy remains, the church of Melanesia in the Solomon Islands remains "high" church. Interesting that the son of a coal miner in many ways has left a more lasting impression that the sons of the nobs!
So Fr Jim now has a full set of parents and grandparents!
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 When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells (Marcel Proust) Christine
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03-10-09, 21:42
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That's very interesting. Wouldn't he have had to have a degree to become a C of E priest in those days? I just wondered how they could have afforded that?
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03-10-09, 21:42
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Ooooo that sounds great! Well done Miss Marple!
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03-10-09, 21:50
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There were theological colleges that were not so accademic, many of the clergy who came from working class backgrounds made it out to the mission field. FR Jim was a carpenter by trade and only did his theology training post WW1. He was in the Solomons until the outbreak of WW2 when he was in Australia doing a tour for the Australian Board of Missions. He then stayed in Australia until the end of the war. Not all of the missionaries made it out ahead of the Japanese invasion, there are some who died as POW. After the war he went back to the Solomons until the 1950s.
In his retirement Fr Jim went back to the UK and was curate of Walsall Wood, where he was born.
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