Seems strange to me, how
quickly the name Jabez disappeared in my English relatives,
considering that it was there in Lancashire the first Mary Burn of my
line named her second son Jabez. He was a rather famous Jabez, a
temperance preaching Baptist minister. His son was named Dawson
Jabez
Burns; Dawson was the
surnmane of his mother, and of course, Jabez the name of the father.
The Dawson Jabez Burns of
this Part 4 of the Jabezes series was the last of the English Jabez
Burns of which I am aware.
Although Dawson Jabez Burns'
older brother George interest turned to printing and publishing,
Dawson Jabez Burns followed his famous father's footsteps into the
ministry. At the age of 22 years, he was attending the General
Baptist College at St. Margaret, Leicester. During his youth he was
surrounded by those in the temperance movement, such as Clara Lucas
Balfour, who was the wife of James Balfour, of the Ways and Means
Office in the House of Commons. Her husband, an alcohlic took the
temperance pledge in 1837, and she a week later. Clara later
contacted Jabez Burns and became a Baptist convert. It certainly is
not surprising that Dawson Jabez Burns found a suitable wife for an
upcoming Baptist minister in Clara's daughter Cecil Balfour. Dawson
and Cecil Burns had five children, none of which bore the Jabez or
Dawson name..
Dawson Jabez followed his
famous father's steps in preaching temperance from the Baptist
pulpit. He died at the age of 80 years, 23rd of
August,1909.
SOURCES:
1841 English Census, St.
Marylebone, Middlesex, England
1851 English Census, St.
Margaret, Leicester, England
1861 English Census, St.
George, Southwark, Surrey, England
1871 English Census,
Southwark, Surrey, England
1881 English Census,
Southward, Surrey, England
1891 English Census,
Southerick, Surrey, England
1901 English Census,
Battersea, London, Surrey, England
1909 BMD Record, London,
England
Jabezes, Part 1
Jabezes, Part 2
Jabezes, Part 3
Jabezes, Part 3, Addendum
Burns Brass Band
Jabezes, Part 1
Jabezes, Part 2
Jabezes, Part 3
Jabezes, Part 3, Addendum
Burns Brass Band
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© Joan Hill, Roots'n'Leaves Publications
Those Jabez's are slowly making sense to me. Hope the Colorado fires stay away fm yr bit of the west coast. they surely look shocking.
ReplyDeletePauleen, I am amazed that those crazy Jabezes are making sense to you. Sometimes, I am writing along and find I am in the wrong family, wrong generation --- crazy making.
ReplyDeleteRE: Colorado fires. Those are a far piece from my home in southern Oregon, but worrisome none the less. The younger sister of my daughter-in-law lives way too close to that inferno. Thanks for your concern.
BTW sounds like you had a great time at the conference.