Rev. William Manchee 1,2,30,51
- Born: 30 Jul 1841, Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England 2
- Marriage: Mary Ann Habens on 5 Feb 1867 2
- Died: 26 Aug 1926, Asbury Park, New Jersey at age 85 1,2,52
- Buried: 30 Aug 1926, Cedar Lawn Cemetary, Paterson, NJ 52
 Cause of his death was Chronic Myocarditis.52
Noted events in his life were:
Alt Birth, 30 Sep 1841. 1
Ordained, 1866. 74
Occupation: Pastor of the Hertford Congregational Church, 1867-1872, Hertford, Hertfordshire, UK. 75
"In July 1867, the Revd. William Manchee was invited to and accepted the pastoral office (at Hertford), commencing his duties two months later. A strenuous and successful effort was made in 1870 to extinguish the debt on the church. Interest had evidently been maintained in the work of the Sunday School, for in 1874 its numerical strength was 23 teachers and 176 scholars. The Church Roll records the addition of 34 names. Mr. Manchee resigned in May 1872, with the intention of taking up missionary work in Madagascar.", ref. http://www.hertford-urc.org/
Emigrated: from England, 1872, To Canada. 59
Occupation: Pastor of the Trinity Congregational Church, Apr 1873, Guelph, Ontario. 74
Minutes from the church meetings - Dec 1866 - Nov 1898.
p.73, Decided to ask Rev. William Manchee to be pastor. One reference is from the Hertfordshire County Association, dated 21 Oct 1872. "Mr. Manchee was a member at the time of leaving England and he had done a good and faithful work in the town of Hertford throughout the entire period of his ministry. The pastorate is to commence, if he accepts, after the first sabbath in April, 1873. Salary for the rest of the year to be at the rate of $800.00 per annum. Mr. Manchee agreed to be pastor on condition that a vacation to the extent of 4 sabbaths in the year be allowed him. This was agreed on.
p.172, 3 Sep 1879, "The pastor intimated his intension shortly to resign his pastorate and stated fully the personal & other grounds on which he had more than a year since concluded on the expediency of such a movement." He has accepted a pastorate of the Congregational Church of Plainsfield, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Civil Registration - England, Births 1841, 3rd quarter, H-O, Manchee, William, Bethnal Green, vol 2., page 45.
Residence, 1873-1880, Guelph, Ontario. 59
Emigrated: from Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 1880, To New Jersey, Us. 59
Census: 1880 US Census, 1880, Plainfield, Union, New Jersey, USA. 53
Occupation: Pastor of the Reformed churches: New Jersey. 2
Travel: return to US from England on the ship Helvetia, 29 Aug 1881. 76 Port of departure, LIverpool, England and Quieenstown Ireland
Member:: Presbyterian Church, Rev Philo Leavens, minister., 1894, Passaic, NJ. 77
Residence: the home of his daugher Alice, from retirement until 1923, East Orange, NJ. 2
Last Residence, 1923, Asbury Park, NJ. 2 Lived with his son, Stanley Edgar, until he died.
William married Mary Ann Habens on 5 Feb 1867.2 (Mary Ann Habens was born in 1843 in Brighton, East Sussex, England,52,55 died on 28 Jun 1925 in Asbury Park, New Jersey 2,52 and was buried on 1 Jul 1925 in Cedar Lawn Cemetary, Paterson, NJ 52.) The cause of her death was Pleurisy.52
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