A ‘prudence’ of Grimsby area vicars c1891.

Canon James Peter Young M.A. became vicar of Grimsby following the resignation of Robert Ainslie in 1879. He arrived in Grimsby in 1867 and became curate-in-charge of the first St. Barnabas’ Mission church, the ‘Tin Church’, which was built in King Edward Street in 1874. A new St. Barnabas’ church, built in King Edward Street in 1900, closed in 1954. The building is now the home of the Docks Beer brewery and taproom with the Docks Academy upstairs.

Canon James Peter Young is credited with establishing the beginnings of Grimsby’s St. James’ School, formerly St. James’ Choir School, in 1880.

We are indebted to Wendy Parkinson for the following genealogical research to accompany this photograph which we believe was taken at The Vicarage in Bargate c1891.

James Peter Young was born c1844 in Hursley, Hampshire. He was the son of Peter Young M.A., born Agra in India, Curate of Hursley, and Caroline. He was one of at least 5 children.

In 1861, James Peter Young was a scholar at Winchester College. He was living with John Keble, Vicar of Hursley. James was cousin to John Keble’s wife. (A visitor at the vicarage was Frederic Rogers, Baronet, and Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.)

In 1871, James Peter Young, Curate of Great Grimsby, was lodging with the Reverend Robert Ainslie at the Vicarage in Dean’s Gate, Grimsby. (Robert Ainslie was born in Westminster.)

In 1881, James Peter Young M.A. was Vicar of Great Grimsby and was head of household at The Vicarage in BarGate. His younger sister, Elizabeth A., was there too. Curate of St. James, George K. Kestell-Cornish, born Sidmouth, Devon, was boarding at The Vicarage. George Kestell-Cornish became the third Anglican Bishop of Madagascar from 1919 until his death in 1925.

In 1891, James Peter Young was still the Vicar at Grimsby and still living at The Vicarage in Bar-Gate together with his wife True Augusta, from Lincoln. They married in 1883 at St. James’ Church, Grimsby. James’ sisters Mary Jane and Elizabeth A. lived at The Vicarage too.

Elizabeth A. can be seen in the window.

Herbert G. C. North-Cox, Curate of St. James’ Church, Grimsby was a boarder at The Vicarage. He can be seen in the photo, thus dating the photo to c1891.

By 1900, the reverend James Peter Young was a clerk at Welby, Lincolnshire. He died at the West London Hospital, Hammersmith Road, London on 14th February 1900. Probate to True Augusta Young, widow. Effects £1,610 12s. 4d. True Augusta Young of Sheringham, Norfolk died on the 8th July 1904. Probate to Catherine Fanny Gibson, spinster. £1,145 8s. 2d.

Note: Rev. Canon James Peter Young M.A., acting chaplain, was a volunteer with 1st Lincolnshire Volunteer Position Artillery at the Artillery Barracks in Victoria Street North in ?

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In 1901, Herbert G. C. North-Cox, born Southgate, Middlesex, was a Church of England Clergyman living at The Vicarage, Barton on Humber. His wife, Clara M., born Grimsby, and 3 children were there too. They married in Grimsby in 1894. Twins Dorothy Maud K. and Mary Ellen C. were born in 1895 and son, Wilfred H. M. in 1897.

Wilfred Herbert Marshall North-Cox was a second lieutenant with Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment). He died in WW1 on 2nd March 1916, aged 18. He is buried or commemorated at Newcastle upon Tyne (Byker and Heaton) Cemetery. His parents are named as the Rev. H. G. C. and Mrs. Clara M. North-Cox of “Copper Dene”, Barton-on-Humber. Clara M. North-Cox died in 1924, aged 55. Herbert married Mary E. Tombleson in Eastbourne in 1925. Herbert died in Hastings in 1944, aged 82. Mary died in 1956, aged 83, in Henley.

Herbert North-Cox died in Hastings in 1944.

H. G. C. North-Cox act., is named in a Lincolnshire Regiment Clergy List 1897, 1st Batt.

We would be grateful to receive information about the other vicars in the photo.