Heroes and Rebels in the Family Tree—Adam Adams

 

Trevor John Faulkner provided much of the information about Adam Adams written below.  It was his posting about this ancestor that got me researching how he was related in our family tree. It wasn’t an easy task to find the ancestor or descendant who would connect this member of the Adams family to our family tree.  I was finally able to make a connection through the husband of his eldest daughter when I found that the Mobbs family was linked to the Capps family. 

Born on 23 September 1834 at Beccles, Suffolk, England. the son of Adam Adams (1805-1890) and Kezia Clements (1801-1875), he was educated at Wylde's Grammar School. He married Elizabeth Hoy (1832-1912) of Mattishall, Norfolk on 26 December 1859 and they lived near Lowestoft.

Together, he and Elizabeth had 7 children, two of whom died prior to the 1911 census.  Their children were:

1.      Gertrude Emma Adams (1861-1948) married George Mobbs

2.      Edith Mary Adams (1862-1935) married William Reeler Dawson

3.      Alice Maud Adams (1865-1872)

4.      Laura Elizabeth Adams (1866-1872)

5.      Henry Clemant Adams (1869-1936) married Minnie Bly

6.      Catherine Amelia Adams (1871-1944) married Edward James Youngs Saunders

7.      Florence Ellen Adams (1875-    ) married Alexander Pirie Donaldson and after his death married Adolphe A Collier

Adam Adams was a staunch Primitive Methodist, he became a local preacher and was then called into the Primitive Methodist ministry by the Yarmouth Circuit and stationed there in 1852-4. However, his health was far from good at that time and he did not continue as a travelling preacher, but remained on the plan as a local preacher for more than sixty years.

He was a grocer, merchant and owner of four fishing smacks. In 1884 one of the smacks sank near the Leman and Ower sandbanks, twelve leagues from Yarmouth. The ship was lost, but the crew was eventually picked up and brought safely back to shore. A Board of Trade enquiry concluded that the ship had been sent to sea in an unseaworthy condition and the case was sent to the Assizes in Norwich. Eventually Adams was cleared of the charge.

He was much involved in local affairs as an Alderman of the Borough of Lowestoft, Justice of the Peace for the County and Borough, Suffolk County Councillor from the inception of the Council, Mayor of Lowestoft in 1890 and again in 1896 and 1907. He was also Parliamentary Candidate for Horncastle in 1908.

Within the Primitive Methodist Church he was extremely active. He was on many District and Connexional committees. He was Vice-President of the Conference in 1900-1. He gave the land for the new Primitive Methodist chapel at Oulton, Suffolk in 1901 (chapel opened 1903) and made other gifts to chapels. He died in August 1921.


Genealogy:   Adam Adams 1834-1921 and Elizabeth Hoy (1832-1912) had a daughter, Gertrude Emma Adams (1861-1948).  She married George Mobbs (1862-1923) and his father was William Mobbs (1838-1915) and his father was George Mobbs (1810-1867) and his son was Henry Mobbs (1843-1899) and his wife was Rhoda Frances Capps (1842-1908) and her father was Francis Cooper Capps (1812-1873) and his father was John Capps (1779-1852) and his son was William Cooper Capps (1805-1838) and his wife was Mary Ann Carr Burwood (1809-1889) and her father was Henry Bell Burwood (Fish Merchant/Boat Builder) (1766-1851) and his father was George Burwood (1743-1823) and his mother was Judith Salter (1707-1773) and her mother was Judith Farrow (1680-1718) and her mother was Anne Mewse (1654-    ) and her father was Philip Mewse (1629-1673) and his father was John Mewse (Fisherman) (1592-1667) and his son was Simon Mewse (butcher) (1641-1719) and his son was Simon Mewse (butcher) (1672-1741) and his son was Simon Mewse (1695-1736) and his daughter was Mary Mewse (1727-1797) and her daughter was Elizabeth Curtis (1756-1831) and her son was John Curtis Adams (1797-1873) and his son was William Frederick Adams (1848-1907) and his son was George "Pikey" William Welch-Adams (1867-1940).

Another Genealogy:  Adam Adams 1834-1921 and Elizabeth Hoy (1832-1912) had a daughter, Catherine Amelia Adams (1871-1944) and she married Edward James Youngs Saunders (1877-1952).  His mother was Susannah Burwood Garwood (1829-1880) and her mother was Ann Burwood (1793-1874) and her father was Henry Bell Burwood (Fish Merchant/Boat Builder) (1766-1851) and his father was George Burwood (1743-1823)

Sources:

Lowestoft Journal, 7 November 1896, 9 November 1907

Monica Place and Norma Virgoe, 'Adam Adams and the Superior', in Wesley Historical Society, East Anglia District, no. 112, Spril 2012, pp.1-8

 

 


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