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"The Croft" Normandy (Surrey) 2002. Built by James HORNE c1850
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5x John HORNE ( ? - ?) [m] Jane Jean ? (? - 1783)
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4x Henry HORNE (1753 - 1810) [m ? ) Mary ? (? - ?)
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3x James HORNE (1798 - 1871) [m 1819] Mary CHITTY (1796 - 1881)
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2x James STANTON (1780 - 1848) [m 1852] Mary HORNE ( 1823 - 1904)
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James HORNE was an avid Methodist Lay Preacher. After his death in 1871, his friends wrote a book about him, called "The Church in the Wilderness". This is the opening paragraph from that book:-
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JAMES HORNE was born in thc city of Salisbury, Oct. 9th, 1798. Beyond this fact and the vastly more important one, that his parents loved as well as feared God, but little is known of his earliest years. He lost his father when quite young, but cherished a lively recollection of his widowed mother as a good Methodist, who often led him by the hand to the six o'clock morning prayer meeting. For a short time he was indebted to the assistance of friends, but was early thrown upon his own resources, to which may be traced the character of self-reliance and well-regulated independence of mind that throughout life characterized his conduct. Before he was seventeen years of age he went to sea, a calling that he followed for four years ; during which, amidst all the dangers, moral and spiritual, to which it exposed him, he was graciously watched over and pre-served by a loving god, -- a result that he in after life attributed to the early training and faithful prayers of a pious mother. upon relinquishing the sea he settled near Buckingham, and soon after -- on Sept. 21st, 1819 -- was united in matrimony to Mary Chitty, of Poyle, Surrey, who now mourns his removal.
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N.B James first appears in Surrey as a witness (? best man) at the wedding of Mary's elder brother George in 1817. I theorise that he met George whilst 'at sea' and returned with him when he was due to marry. At the wedding he obviously would have met the groom's sister (the rest is history....).
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HORNE family Links/ Resources
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James HORNE Family Tree
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"A Church In the Wilderness" (book about James HORNE)
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"A Church In the Wilderness" (scan of original frontispiece)
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Family Tree: CHITTY / TICE / WHEELER families
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