I would check with Essex Record Office to see whether he left a will. Before 1858 wills were probabted in church courts. Essex record office will have any wills probated in the local diocesan court.
They also have a couple of items on the Braintree Baptists.
BRAINTREE BAPTIST CHURCH
Repository: Essex Record Office
Level: Category Baptist Church records
Level: Fonds BRAINTREE BAPTIST CHURCH
Reference Code D/NB 18
Title [BRAINTREE BAPTIST CHURCH]
Scope and Content Introductory Note
The Baptist congregation at Braintree has a long, if at times shadowy, history. According to Strype's Memorials, there was a Baptist congregation at Bocking as early as the reign of Edward VI. A certificate dated 1 February, 1837, in the front of the earliest register of births (D/NB 18/4/1), affirms that the particular Baptist Chapel in Coggeshall Lane, Braintree, was founded 'about the year 1680', although the congregation actually met in premises in Back Lane, then called Sandford Pond Lane. 'Between 1715 and 1760, the Baptist congregations were meeting in a cottage belonging to a Mr. Cartwright... in Coggeshall Lane' [W.F. Quin, A History of Braintree and Bocking, 1981]. By 1760, the cottage had been purchased by the congregation and fitted up as a place of worship. During the ministry of Rev. John HORNBLOW, 1779-1816, the chapel was enlarged to accommodate 400 people, and was rebuilt in 1833 at the expense of £1,882. New school rooms were opened c. 1863.
Repository: Essex Record Office
Level: Category Baptist Church records
Level: Fonds ELD LANE BAPTIST CHURCH, COLCHESTER
Level: Series Miscellaneous
Reference Code D/NB 4/45
Dates of Creation 1767-1782
Extent 1 vol.
Scope and Content Commonplace book
Contains copies of letters, acrostics and verses mainly on devotional themes inc. `Mr HORNBLOWs Ordination at Braintree July 15th 1779', headed `The Letters etc which follow in order from hence were wrote by T S' [Thomas Steevens, minister (1773-1802)] and at back, reversed: `The peices which follow on this end of the book have several authors'; inc. hymns.
Date From 1767
A search in Google for John Hornblow gets you
Name: annie randall king <
arkart2002@yahoo.com>
Date: 2002-08-24
Comments:
I have been looking for family members decended from Richard P and Isott webber. I found a 3rd cousin and we between us we have extended the family of Augustus Stephen Jeffery Pomery's wife Sarah Georgina Moore back to Rev John Hornblow although we are still looking for backup & confirmation. SGM mother Sarah Hornblow was married 4 times and left her daughters behind when she married for the 2nd time and sailed away to South Africa with husband John Caudle. See Sarah Forrest's tree.enter sarah hornblow into Google search. We have established SGM dates and several addresses in liverpool for much of the family and have found Edgar Pomeroy with a brother Campbell - as son of Augustus Fred.Brett Pom and Eliz. Jackson We are still trying to establish whether Richard and Isott had other children, we suspect a Richard and a James but this is utterly without confirmation. Anyone with info about Richard Pom who married Francis Ongley Circa 1839 we would be interested to hear from them.
John Hornblow said to have come from Halstead near Braintree. Born circa 1743. wife Elizabeth . Known for having numerous children. Baptist minister Braintree appears to have gone to London where he fell under the spell of the evangelical. Rev A Booth, was married there and sent to the Baptist church in Braintree in 1779, the year he was ordained.
Marriage. There is an IGI marriage for John Hornblow in London to Elizabeth
ELIZABETH YOUNG Marriage: 13 JAN 1775 Saint George Botolph Lane, London, London, England
After his death from a stroke in 1816 his widow Elizabethe returned to London where she died in 1821. She may have had a removal order made against her because she would have been forced to live on the Parish, charity money, being a clergy widow with no income and no home.
possible daughters of John & Elizabeth Hornblow,
Lidia Hornblow married to Edward Haiward 1814 Halstead. ( ref Boyd’s Essex)
Ann Hornblow born 1783 in Bocking . Married 1804 in Bocking to Stephen Brown.
Sarah Hornblow My 4 times g,grandmother born 1789 married George Moore 1810 had 3 children.
Her second marriage was in 1816 after which she went to South Africa where she had 6 further children and 2 more marriages.
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Valda
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