The Driver Family - George Deacon SHIPLEY

George Deacon SHIPLEY
      Sex: M
Individual Information
          Birth: May 1835 - Hillfields, Coventry, England
    Christening: 29 Dec 1835 - Coventry, England
          Death: 21 May 1926 - Warmley, Bristol, England
         Burial: May 1926 - Marcham, Oxfordshire, England
Events
• He lived at with grandfather James Deacon in Great Bowden, Leicestershire, England in 1841

• He lived at Mill Street, St Paul in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England in 1851

• He was a railway clerk in 1861

• He lived at Clifton Street in Litchurch, Derbyshire, England in 1861

• He was a town missionary in 1871

• He lived at Wilberforce Street in Ipswich, Suffolk, England in 1871

• He lived in Swanage, Dorset, England in 1876

• He was a Baptist minister in 1881

• He lived in Breachwood Green, Hertfordshire, England in 1881

• He was a Baptist minister in 1891

• He lived at High Field in Litlington, Cambridgeshire, England in 1891

• He was a Baptist minister in 1901

• He lived at Chapel House in Marcham, Oxfordshire, England in 1901

• He was a Baptist minister in 1911

• He lived at Chapel House in Marcham, Oxfordshire, England in 1911

• He lived at 1 Deanery Road in Warmley, Bristol, England on 21 May 1926

• He had an estate probated at £100.00 granted to Cecil Edgar Shipley, Baptist Minister on 6 Oct 1926 in Bristol, England.

Spouses and Children
1. *Emma FLETCHER (Jan 1834 - 27 Feb 1917)
       Marriage: 17 Mar 1861 - Litchurch, Derbyshire, England
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Sidney Russel SHIPLEY (1863-1911)
Notes
Christening Notes:

Holy Trinity
Burial Notes:

George Deacon Shipley fell asleep May 21st 1926 aged 91 years until daybreak
General:

George Deacon Shipley, my great great grandfather, was born to George Shipley and Mary Ann (nee Deacon) on 29th December 1835. His birth record shows his birthplace as Hillfields ( a suburb of Coventry) and according to the I.G.I. he was christened on 29th December 1835 at Holy Trinity, Coventry. However, on the 1881 census he has put that he came from Great Bowden, Leicester. Presumably that was where he was brought up for, in 1841, the census record for Great Bowden shows him living with James Deacon ( his grandfather) Anne ( his step-grandmother) , Joseph (his uncle) aged 20 and Louisa Deacon aged 6 months in Great Bowden. He may have been living with them because his father was absent, having been transported to Tasmania four years previously in 1837. The whereabouts of his mother at that time are not known. George Deacon married Emma Fletcher , a spinster from Calverton, Nottingham, i n March 1861. His address was 83, High Street, Litchurch: Emma's was ? Road, Litchurch. They married in a congregationalist school chapel in Derby. On the marriage certificate his occupation was given as "book keeper". They had seven children. In 1863, when Sidney Russel was born, 1865 when Cecil Edgar was born and 1867 when Gertrude was born, the family lived in Alvaston, Shardlow, Derby. George Deacon was then a railway clerk. A daughter Miriam was born in 1864 (FS) or 1861(KC) , place unknown. Apparently she died aged either 12 or 17. In 1869 when George Hubert was born, they lived at Clarkson street, Ipswich : George Deacon's occupation at that time was "warehouse clerk". Another daughter, Ethel, was also born in Ipswich in 1873 and their last child, Miriam, was born in London, Bow Rd. in 1877. The 1881 census shows most of the family living at Breachwood Greeen, Kings Walden, Hertford. Marion is not mentioned. (It is thought that she would have died by then) George Hubert then aged 11 was living with his aunts Jane and Fanny at Burton Latimer and Sidney Russell, my great grandfather, then aged 18 , was a boarder at a bakers in Holdenhurst, Hampshire. (His grandfather and great grandfather had been bakers and Sidney followed in their footsteps and went on to become a master baker and confectioner - his sons also continued in the profession). This census shows that George Deacon had become a Baptist Evangelist preacher! An entry in the parish records of Breachwood Green Baptist Church says; "In 1880 Rev. G.D. Shipley of Bournemouth came at the request of the Church to hold an evangelist mission........" The family left Breachwood Green after 8 years. At present I have no information as to where they went next; Possibly they came to Bristol. (according to Kathleen Carr they went to Highfields) A letter from theThe Rev. Preb. Cecil Gange Shipley ( a grandson of George Deacon's) says that George Deacon is buried at Marcham. Confirmed by KC - they went to Marcham in 1897 where he lived until his death. However his death was registered in Warmley, Bristol, England by his grandson, Albert George Shipley HARRIS (son of Miriam SHIPLEY and Albert HARRIS)

From a letter written by Cecil Edgar Shipley, son of George Deacon Shipley:

In 1857 he went to Derby and worked for the Midland Railway. In 1858 he became a christian. In 1869 he went to Ipswich as City Missioner. in 1874 he went to Swanage as City Missioner. In 1876 he went to Kingston, Ringwood, Hampshire as a minister. in 1880 he went to Breachwood Green. in 1890 he went to Highfields. In 1897 he went to Marcham.

From: 'Parishes: Marcham', A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4 (1924), pp. 354-360.

The Marcham Baptist chapel and minister's house are comprised in deeds dated respectively 20 May 1875 and 2 March 1893. The house is occupied by the minister, who pays yearly £14 by way of rent, which is applied for purposes connected with the chapel.

Last updated 28 May 2013