Tough Assignment - Ministers, Local Preachers and Trustees

 Ministers with pastoral responsibility for Eton Wick

Local Preachers belonging to the Chapel

These are lay men or women appointed to preach anywhere in the Connexion, but who normally preach at churches within their own Circuit.

The date give is the year they first became a Local preacher.

before 1893 John Lane

 before 1893 Frank Tarrant

1902 Frances Annie Tough

1902 S Baker

1907 Frances Paintin

1935 William Templeman

1951 Daphne Hogg

1952 Tom Dally

1953 Helen Banham

1963 Dennis Nelson

1981 Neville Thorman 

Trustees

Eight trustees were originally appointed in 1886, but by 1933 these had been reduced to only three. It was resolved to draw up a new trust deed and to increase the number to twelve. Two of the original trustees retired. By 1952 it was again necessary to elect new trustees to bring the numbers up_ to twelve again. For ninety years the trustees were responsible for the fabric of the chapel, in 1976 duties came to an end with the passing of the Methodist Churches Act which transferred responsibility to the Church Council.

 

Frances Tough	Eton Wick	Domestic duties	1886-1930
John Lane	Eton Wick	Builder	1886-1913
John Moore	Eton Wick	Mast and Oar maker	1986-1911
Henry Goodman	Dorney	Gentleman	1886-1892
James Leaver	Maidenhead	House decorator	1886-1933
Robert Kirby	Maidenhead	Paper finisher	1886-1933
Henry Murby	Maidenhead	Ginger beer manuf	1886-1894
Jesse Wilkins	Maidenhead	Brass finisher	1886-1936
Ada Moore	Eton Wick	Domestic duties	1933-1947
Archibald Chew	Eton Wick	Woollen merchant	1933-1943
Annie Chew	Eton Wick	Domestic duties	1933-1966
Harry Cook	Eton Wick	Plumber	1933-1976
Ivy Jewell	Eton Wick	Domestic duties	1933-1950
William Sullivan	Eton Wick	Medical lam maker	1933-1952
William Pratt	Slough	Civil servant	1933-1967
Charles Wilkins	Maidenhead	Cycle dealer	1933-c1960
Augustus Eggleton	Maidenhead	Upholsterer	1933-1952
Henry Carter	Maidenhead	Compositor	1933-1952
George Weeks	Cippenham	Farmer	1933-1949
Charles Pasco	Windsor	Schoolmaster	1952-1963
Allan Kempton	Maidenhead	Accounts clerk	1952-1976
Claude Wisbey	Slough	Distribution supr.	1952-1976
Winifred Jewell	Eton Wick	Restaurant mgr.	1952-1976
Ernest Drake	Eton Wick	Grocer's assistant	1952-1960
Majorie Morris	Eton Wick	Librarian	1952-1976
Joyce Chew	Eton Wick	Secretary	1952-1976
Sylvia Chew	Eton Wick	Civil Servant	1952-1976

The Eton Wick History Group is most grateful for the kind permission given by the Eton Wick Methodist Chapel to republish this history, Tough Assignment on this website.