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Community Benefit Society, number 8481
WILLIAM STICKLAND
In
Loving Memory of
WILLIAM.
THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF
MARIA STICKLAND
WHO DIED JUNE 3RD 1884
AGED 84 YEARS.
"HIM THAT COMETH TO ME I WILL IN NO WISE CAST OUT"
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William Stickland was born in 1799 to Jasper and Sarah Stickland (nee Phillips), the second of their 6 children and their oldest son. He was baptised in Christchurch on 22nd May 1799. He married Maria Gregory, the 19-year-old daughter of William and Frances (nee Miller), at Beaulieu Church on 17th October 1822.
At a church meeting on Christmas Day of 1833, William and Maria were two of the 21 members who withdrew from the Chapel’s membership to form the break away Baptist Church, led by the Rev John Bartlett Burt, in Factory (Massey’s) Lane.
The 1841 census lists William and Maria living in Furzey Lodge with six children and this is confirmed by the tithe schedule (map below). By 1851, their eldest children have left home and William and Maria are living with daughters Sarah and Eliza along with 2-year-old son, James.
By 1861, daughter Elizabeth, now 24, and son James remain at home with William and Maria. Also living with them are three of their grandchildren, Hannah (7), Charles (5) and Alice (3 months old), maybe their son William’s children. The 1871 and 1881 censuses shows William and Maria as ‘empty nesters’, still living in Furzey Lodge.
William worked as a labourer his whole working life, certainly until the age of 80.
He died aged 84 and was buried 5 days later at the chapel by the Rev. John Bartlett Burt on 8th June 1884.
The quote on his gravestone is a verse from the King James Version of the Bible, John 6:37.
