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Name: ENGLAND, Thomas Samuel (Rev.)
Birth Date: 20 Dec 1861 Guernsey
Death Date: 26 Oct 1949 Seaton, Devon
Nationality: British
First Date: 1885
Profession: Served with the CMS at Mombasa
Area: Mombasa
Married: 1. 1879 ?; 2. 1898 Clarice Emmeline Bridgewater, b. 1873, d. 21.5.1961 Reading - Mrs England also with the CMS at Mombasa in 1905
Children: Howard Thornton; son (Mombasa 17 Nov 1899), Eric Godfrey (7.1.1900 Mombasa), Cicely Clarice (18.1.1905 Mombasa)
Book Reference: Gillett, Tucker, EAHB 1905, North, EA Diary 1903, EAHB 1906, CMS, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Foster
General Information:
North - From Guernsey, CI; Freretown School; dep. on leave Oct 1889; ordained Deacon 24/1/1892 and Priest 23/9/1892; Mombasa Sept 1894; Rabai; In charge of Freretown Mission 1897
CMS 1885 - Age 23. Of Guernsey. Trained-Master. 1885, Feb 24, accepted by CMS. 1885, May 13 to E. Eq. Africa Mission - Frere Town School; 1888, Oct 24 to England. 1889 CM Coll. 1891, May 11 to E. Eq. Africa Mission - Frere Town. 1892, Jan 24 Deacon and 1894, Sept 23 at Frere Town Priest by Bishop Tucker. [Notes by Roy Dunstan] 1895 to UK; 1896 Sept 3 to Rabai; 1900 Oct 6 to UK; 1902 Feb 10 to Frere Town; 1907 June 2 resignation accepted on medical grounds. 1949, Oct 26, died at Seaton. Married 1898 (2) Clarice Emmeline Bridgwater who died 1961 May 21 at Reading aged 82. His first marriage was in 1879. "He is not physically strong" - (Hooper). 1885, May 13 to EA with Hooper aboard RMS Hawarden Castle via Cape. 1886 Feb 3 at S. end of Lake Victoria, Msalala with Bp. Hannington and Hooper.
Gazette - 1-1-1900 - Birth on the 17 November at Mombasa the wife of the Rev T.S. England of a son
Tucker - ordained deacon on Jan 24th 1892. Returning from furlough Oct 1896
1939 England and Wales Register living with wife and wife's brother in Axminster