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Hawise De Grey¹

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1. [S1016] According to Otto Hirzell
2. [S1024] Brereton History

John Mason-Pierce¹

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John Mason Pierce Rhyl 1907

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Occupation	John Mason-Pierce was a teacher and vicar.
Note	Event Memos from GEDCOM Import... Biography He became a vicar after retiring from being a teacher. He attended Chester Diocese Training College and gained a Techers Certificate in 1905. Crockford's gives the following " d and p 1953 Wor; Church of All Saints w St. Helen, Worc 1953-56; Vicar of Swinbrook w Widford, Dio Ox from 1956; Swinbrook Vicarage, Burford, Oxon. " Thank you for your letter together with the notes from Mr John Snelson concerning my predecessor at Swinbrook in the Diocese of Oxford, namely the Reverend Jack Mason Pierce, whom I succeeded in 1967. I recall very clearly both Mr Mason Pierce and his charming wife, Helen, for they made my wife and me most welcome when we called on them, by appointment, shortly before their retirement. He had served the Benefice for about eleven years following his Ordination for which he had prepared at, I think, the Worcester Training College for Older Men. (I have never heard of the Cheshire Training College, but have always known that Jack was a certificated teacher). During our conversations he gave me a good deal of advice and background information relating to the parish and to his parishioners. This was a considerable boon and enabled me to avoid a number of mistakes or misjudgements. In due course, Jack Mason-Pierce (the usual manner in which he described himself) removed, with his wife Helen and their two (I think) children to the very ancient Dorset town of Sherborne, where some generous benefactor unknown had undertaken to provide the family with housing, either in Sherborne itself or at any rate within the vicinity. Most unfortunately I never learned their precise address and correspondence between us was not continued. I have always felt a certain guilt in having never made a point of finding out their address in order to say how his former parish was going. I really do regret this - although I have never heard from the Mason-Pierces anyway. Such a breakdown in communication was most unfortunate - particularly since it ought to have been quite a simple operation by consulting the Sherborne Register. A Black mark to T.Hine. One particular feature of John's ministry at Swinbrook and Widford ( to which, in my time Asthall was very appropriately added) was that he was his own organist - an eccentricity which I, as an enthusiastic organist myself continued throughout my 27 years as vicar 1967 - 1994, when I retired to North Dorest, just 8 miles from Sherborne, whither the Mason-Pierces themselves had lived after Swinbrook. But I never did discover where they had lived exactly, nor where they had moved, if they had moved. So much the pity. Should any further reflections occur to me I will write again, in case Mr. Snelson finds them at all useful. Yours sincerely, J.T.M.Hine Hon. Canon of Christchurch. John Mason-Pierce died in 1973 and is buried in Swinbrook Churchyard. He was Vicar of Swinbrook with Widford 1956 - 67.
User Reference Number	He; 126
Biography	See notes.
Birth	He was born on 24 July 1889 in Chester, Cheshire, England, I have another birth date as possibly 1880, but I think it was 1889.
Baptism	He was baptised on 29 August 1889 in St. Paul's, Chester.
Education	He was educated in Chester Diocese Training College, Chester, in 1909 [[Principal Role]] [[Witness Role: Student]], Teacher's Certificate.
	His father John Pierce died on 10 February 1910 in Albion Cottage, Victoria Street, Chester, England.
Milit-Beg	John's military career started in 1914. WW1.
Residence	He resided in Wittington, Salop, in 1915 he was a soldier and.
Marriage	John Mason-Pierce and Florence Margaret Morrison were married on 4 September 1915 in Llangwstennin, Conway, Caernarvonshire, Wales.
Occupation	He was a vicar, army drill instructor in December 1916.
	His wife Florence Margaret Morrison died on 12 December 1916 in Conway, Wales.
	His daughter Margaret Joan Pierce was born on 12 December 1916 in Conway, Wales.
Associatn	He; 18 December 1917; Westbury, Wiltshire; and is shown in the Lodge Records as being a School Master2
	His mother Elizabeth Mason died on 3 January 1920 in The Mill, Ellesmere, Cheshire, England.
Associatn	He; 15 April 1920; Uttoxeter; Foresters Lodge (the entry says his name is "James Mason Pierce", clearly an error) and that his occupation is "schoolmaster"2
Marriage	John Mason-Pierce and Annie Helena ("Nell") Kent were married in 1922 in Utoxeter.
Milit-End	He was discharged from the armed forces in 1922. At the end of his military service he had reached the rank of 2nd Lieutenant.
Residence	He resided in St. Helen, Worcestershire, about 1953 He was Deacon and Priest at Worcester College of All Saints, St Helens.
Residence	He resided in Swinbrook, Widford, Burford, Oxfordshire, about 1957 He was Vicar of Swinbrook with Widford 1956-1957.
Occupation	He was a man of the cloth, having taken the appropriate orders, and lived in The Middle House, Castleton, Sherborne, Dorset, in 1970.
Death	He died on 12 December 1973, at age 84, in Sturminster, Castleton, Sherborne, Dorset, England.
Burial	John's remains were buried on 18 December 1973 in St. Mary's, Swinbrook.
	His wife Annie Helena ("Nell") Kent died in October 1980.

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Label and Year	Manual
Census 1891	John Mason-Pierce Id #16,159 (Principal) was at home on Census night 5 April 1891 at 31 Beaconsfield, Chester; Witness Role: Son Original Documents, Source and Citations here0
Census 1891	John Mason-Pierce Id #16,159 (Principal) was at home on Census night 5 April 1891 at 39 Beaconsfield, Chester; [[Witness Role: son]] Original Documents, Source and Citations here0
Census 1901	John Mason-Pierce Id #16,159 (Principal) was at home on Census night 1901 at 3 Trinity Street, Chester; in 1901, a few doors away at #11 Trinity Street, we find Samuel Snelson, joiner-carpenter, his second wife Elizabeth Snelson and my grandfather, Harold Snelson aged 18. So Harold and Nessie (a shop assistant aged 17 years) were neighbours! Witness Role: Son Original Documents, Source and Citations here3
Census 1901	John Mason-Pierce Id #16,159 (Principal) was at home on Census night 1901 at 3 Trinity Street, Chester; in 1901, a few doors away at #11 Trinity Street, we find Samuel Snelson, joiner-carpenter, his second wife Elizabeth Snelson and my grandfather, Harold Snelson aged 18. So Harold and Nessie (a shop assistant aged 17 years) were neighbours! [[Witness Role: son]] Original Documents, Source and Citations here3
Census 1911	John Mason-Pierce Id #16,159 (Principal) was at home on Census night 1911 at Rugby, Warwickshire; Address: 8 Vicarage Road, Rugby working as an Assistant Teacher for the Warwickshire County Council. His address in Vicarage Road may suggest that he was working with or at the church in some capacity. Original Documents, Source and Citations here
Census 1921	John Mason-Pierce Id #16,159 (Principal) was at home on Census night 1921 at Lindon Vallas, Hockey Road, Uttoxeter; He is recorder in 1921 as a boarder, employed as a teacher at the Church of England School of”Nisbet”, Derby Road, Uttoxeter, Boarder Original Documents, Source and Citations here
Census 1939	John Mason-Pierce Id #16,159 (Principal) was at home on Census night 1939 at "Cestria"; Address: Oakleigh Road, Stourbridge MB QJQN as a Head Teacher, with a note that reads "have offered services with A.R.P. for any duty when not in school". Below listed is Annie Pierce b. 11 June 1900 employed on unpaid domestic duties Original Documents, Source and Citations here

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1. [S589] Victorian Society of Genealogists
2. [S1407] United Grand Lodge of England Membership Registers
3. [S1540] Census 1901

Maud de Holand¹

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1. [S1016] According to Otto Hirzell
2. [S1024] Brereton History
3. [S1023] The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580

Grace Snelson

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1. [S421] Farndon Register 1784-1812

Florence Housby Benyon

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