William Glover was born on this day in 1840 in Castle Donington. He is your great great grandfather and you will be visiting his church in Horsley next week!
Mary (of yesterday) and Robert had six children. The second one was John who had a grocer's shop on Borough Street in Castle Donington with his wife Elizabeth Shaw. John and Elizabeth's youngest son is William who was born today.
William was a draper until he was educated to become a congregational minister. He trained at the Bristol Theological Institute. Around that time he married Celia Adams and they had two children but Celia died during the birth of their second baby - and then the baby, Frank William Adams Glover, died a couple of months later.
William had two churches in the county of Gloucestershire - at Fairford and Blakeney. Then he was called to Northumberland and became the minister of the Congregational Church in Horsley in 1877. He was a single dad - his daughter being 3 years old at the time of the move - then the following year he married the neice of the presbyterian minister in nearby Stamfordham. This was Flora Fisken who originally came from Perthshire Scotland. Her Presbyterian minister uncle was William Fisken of the plough.
William and Flora had two children - William Fisken Glover and Archibald Ritchie Lawrence Glover. Their son William is your great grandfather.
The family lived in the manse which was attached to the church. It's a very old building - from the 1700s - and still stands today - in fact, you'll be having breakfast there next Wednesday! The church is not the original. It was actually William who spearheaded the building of a new church to better serve the communty. The new church was built without debt in 1901/02. Sadly William didn't live long after to enjoy the fruits of his endeavours.
William was a well-respected minister and member of the community. He was active beyond the church by being elected parish councillor.
From The Venerable House (The Story of a Country Church) by H. Rex Coombs
William Glover was a man who believed in progress and much structural attention was effected in his day: changes which reflect that he was a man of vision, for the full scope of his sweeping changes is still proving of increasing value to the life and witness of the church.
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