Here is some stuff on Hugh Bourne 1772-1852
BIRTH 3 Apr 1772
Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke-on-Trent Unitary Authority, Staffordshire, England
DEATH 11 Oct 1852 (aged 80)
Staffordshire, England
BURIAL
Englesea Brook Chapel
Englesea-Brook, Cheshire East Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England
MEMORIAL ID 26463663 · View Source
MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 4
FLOWERS 3
He was born in Stoke-on-Trent,Staffordshire,England,the son of Joseph and Ellen Bourne.As a youth,he was apprenticed to his uncle as a wheelwright,and eventually pursued this trade being principally concerned with windmill and watermill wheels.From his childhood he sought an inner conviction of salvation and he spent,as he put it, "twenty sorrowful years" in this pursuit.In 1799,at the age of twenty-seven,he achieved this goal.From that point on,he began to seek a way to be a preacher of the gospel,although by necessity he continued in his trade.He joined the Methodist movement,but his support of the "camp meeting" type of open-air evangelism did not endear him to many fellow Methodists.He learned much about the camp meeting when the American evangelist Lorenzo Dow (1777-1834)visited England, on May 31,1807,he put his knowledge into practice by organizing the first English camp meeting at Mow Cop,on the border of Cheshire and Staffordshire.The Methodist authorities condemned the proceedings as "highly improper and liable to be productive of considerable mischief in England," and excluded Bourne from the circuit in 1808.Bourne and his followers organized under the name Camp Meeting Methodists.In 1810, William Clowes (1780-1851) was also excluded from the Methodist circuit for much the same reasons as Bourne's exclusion and in 1812 the name Primitive Methodists was taken. The Camp Meeting Methodists and the Clowesites coalesced into one body. Emphasis on the camp meeting as a channel of evangelism was unquestioned.For the next forty years,Bourne travelled widely,founding Primitive Methodist societies,which by the time of his death numbered one hundred ten thousand persons with five hundred.and more travelling preachers. In 1829,a mission field was opened in America,with stations in New York,Philadelphia,and Upper Canada.In 1840,the United States churches became independent of the English Conference.Bourne,at the age of seventy-two,in 1844 undertook a journey to Upper Canada to oversee the mission there.
There is a picture of him on Find a Grave .com
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His Will made in 1844 before his trip to Canada leaves everything to his brother James a farmer of Bemersley.
Mary seems to be the daughter of William and Sarah Bourne of Walton near Stone bapt at Norton in the Moors 22.5.1782.
So I'm guessing William and Hugh's father Joseph were brothers.
Mary's brother William Bourne bookkeeper of Stoke on Trent leaves a Will 2.5.1837.
It mentions his nephew Samuel Slater and brother in law Joseph Slater
Brothers Samuel and Thomas and sister Elizabeth wife of Thomas Lord.
I think he was baptised Norton the Moors 7.6.1778.
Siblings your Mary 22.5.1782 ,Thomas 2.4.1786 ,Samuel 184.1788 ,Pheobe 10.4.1792, Elizabeth 18.6.1794
The parents William and Sarah nee and after Bourn were married by licence 6.7.1777 at Stoke on Trent.He was of S on T ans she of Wolstanton and both were single and over 21.
So it could be either that is related to Hugh.
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