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Notes for PHOEBE DAVIS HINTON:

Source: Dr Williams Library for England and Wales (British Vital Records CD), also IGI

 

Burial: 20 May 1882, Melbourne Cemetery

Cause of Death: Liver cancer, jaundice

Christening: 26 Jan 1831, Kings Road Baptist Meeting Hall, Reading, Berkshire, England

Death record: Vic 5853 1882

Residence: 12 years in South Australia, three years in Victoria

 

Notes for JOHN BAPTIST AUSTIN:

John Baptist Austin was married four times. Phoebe Hinton was his fourth wife.

 

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Notes for Jane Taylor Hinton:

Source: Dr Williams Library for England and Wales (British Vital Records CD), also IGI

 

Christening: 30 Mar 1828, Kings Road Baptist Meeting Hall, Reading, Berkshire, England

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Notes for John Howard Hinton:

Source for death: Ellice Hopkins, Life and Letters of James Hinton, p5 (1906 edition)

"When he {James Hinton} was about 12 years old an event occurred which made a deep impression upon him. Scarlet fever had broken out among the children; but as they were recovering, little being then known or thought of infection, the eldest boy, Howard, was allowed to return into the infected atmosphere. He took the fever and died, without a cloud of regret or fear on his boyish face."

 

More About JOHN HOWARD HINTON:

Cause of Death: Scarlet fever

Christening: 09 Jun 1821, Kings Road Meeting Hall - Baptist, Reading, Berkshire, England

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Notes for Sarah Hinton:

Source: Dr Williams Library for England and Wales (British Vital Records CD), also IGI

Source: FHL Film 1342091 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 4535 Folio 73 Page 9

1881 Census
Dwelling: 5 St Johns Terrace, Leeds, York, England

John LAWSON, 64, Horsforth, York, England, head, retired estate agent
Sarah LAWSON, 61, Birmingham, Warwick, England, wife
Hannah ROBINSON, unmarried, 25, Middlesbrough, York, England, servant

More About SARAH HINTON:
Christening: 06 May 1819, Kings Road Meeting Hall - Baptist, Reading, Berkshire, England

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John Howard Hinton - Notes by Elizabeth Hinton

John Howard was named after an intimate friend of the Taylor (his mother's) family - the philanthropist John Howard, who had no son and had requested Ann Hinton (nee Taylor) to name a son after him, which she did. - (quotes from different articles) - His mother (Ann Taylor) who had inherited many of the excellent qualities of her family secured the interest and confidence of her children in a high degree. It was largely to her instructions that her eldest son attributed his early decision to serve Christ. His first purpose was to prosecute the study of medicine, and he was placed for some time with a practitioner in Oxford. However, in 1811 he went to Bristol College for two years, and in 1813 he studied at the university of Edinburgh, where he received a liberal education, the two older universities being then closed against Dissenters; and he was distinguished not only for sound scholarship, but for the strong scientific tastes, being an excellent geologist and naturalist. He was six feet in height. Those who knew him knew that under some apparent harshness of demeanour and giving the impression of being a bitter and passionate disputant, lay hidden a nature full of tenderness, noble in forgiveness and humble as a child in acknowledging the faults of temper into which the vehemence of his nature occasionally betrayed him. He was a zealous advocate for liberty in religion and politics. John Howard was a voluminous theological writer and his life is given in the "Dictionary of National Biography", edited by Leslie Stephen. Numerous works of J. H. Hinton are in the USA Congressional Library. It appears as though at least three of his children, Broadley Wilson Hinton, Josiah Taylor Hinton and Anne Eliza Hinton went to Australia, Birt Hinton went to the USA and then Canada, James died at Porta Delgada. (His son James was a surgeon and the author of "Mystery of Pain", "Man and his Dwelling-place", "Questions in Aural Surgery", "Atlas of the Ear" and numerous other works" and James' life has been written by Ellice Hopkins, see also "Dictionary of National Biography. He was a consultant to Queen Victoria").
John Howard Hinton was at one time the most intellectual dissenting preacher in London, and was beyond his time. He was an exponent of a more moderate Calvinism than was then in vogue among Baptists. He preached against a material hell-fire. He was intensely musical. He bore the strong Taylor stamp of individuality, which made him a leader in his own denomination, both in thought and in active philanthropy. Mr. George Peard wrote an article on John Howard and James in the "Contemporary Review".
He was on the Executive Committee of the Mission Society (his portrait hangs in the Mission House). He was intensely concerned about the evils of slavery and he threw himself into public enterprises of great moment, such as the liberation of slaves and to work for the principles to remove all elementary education away from the direct charge of the clergy. He wrote "Life of William Knibb, London 1847. William Knibb was a Baptist preacher who successfully campaigned against slavery in the British Colonies, esp. Jamaica.
He first was minister in Haverfordwest in 1816. From there he went in 1820 to Hosier Street in Reading, where the King's road church was built. Because he was so intensely involved with questions involving great principles which came up for national discussion soon after the first Reform of Parliament, he was called and went in 1837 to London. The chapel was situated in an obscure position in the heart of the city - (turning out of Bishopsgate-street, crossing the court called Devonshire-square and passing through a narrow passage on the opposite site). The church was on that site from a period prior to the legal recognition of Non Conformity. (the church is not there now) In 1868 he retired to Bristol, where some members of his family had already settled. In his retirement he collected the publications of his theological works, and found (to his surprise) an enormous amount of material ending up in seven volumes.
 
His brother the Rev. Isaac Taylor Hinton emigrated and died in the USA. He originally was a printer, and in 1820 he was established in a business in London on his own account. He was licensed to preach in 1821, and while continuing his business, became pastor of a Baptist Church. He and John Howard co-operated in publishing "The History and Topography of the United States", which gave him the idea to emigrate to the USA. He was pastor at the 1st Baptist church of Richmond, Virginia where his views on slavery (anti) made him unpopular. He went to Chicago, where he worked as a teacher, to supplement his income as a pastor, but again, the slavery question divided his congregation. Eventually he was a pastor and died in New Orleans during a yellow-fever epidemic. He also published articles such as: An appeal to the friends of education in Great Britain: on behalf of the children of the poor free people and of domestic slaves on the island of Jamaica. (Congressional Library USA)., "History of Baptism" and "Lectures on the Prophecies". (Maura, one of his descendants in the USA is very involved with the family history).

 

 

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Notes for John Howard Hinton:  

Voluminous theological writer. His life is given in the Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Leslie Stephen.

 

Clara G Hinton listed on birth record as relative.

 

Works include A Bibliographical Portraiture of the Late Rev James Hinton, Pastor of a Congregational Church in the City of Oxford, by his son, John Howard Hinton, MA, pastor of a Baptist Church at Reading.

 

John preached all over England, and was at one time regarded as the most intellectual dissenting preacher in London. He also went on mission trips to Germany, Switzerland and other parts of Europe.

Source: Ellice Hopkins, Life and Letters of James Hinton (1906 Kegan Paul Trench Troubner & Co edition, London)

 

In 1822 John Howard Hinton "was already known as a powerful preacher, as the not altogether orthodox exponent of a more moderate Calvinism than was then in vogue among Baptists, and as a man of great energy and character. Indeed, he bore the strong Taylor stamp of individuality, which made him a leader in his own denomination and in active philanthropy." (p1)

 

"In 1838 a great change took place in the Hinton family. Mr Howard Hinton left Reading and took the Devonshire Square Chapel in London, henceforth residing in town. Beginning to feel the pressure of his large family, he removed his eldest son from school and placed him, at the age of 16, in the first situation which chanced to offer itself, and which happened to be that of cashier at a wholesale woolen draper's shop in Whitechapel, kept by a member of his own chapel." (p7)

 

John's father "the Rev James Hinton, had given him a liberal education at the University of Edinburgh, the two older universities then been closed against Dissenters; and he was distinguished not only for sound scholarship but for the strong scientific tastes which his son afterwards inherited, being an excellent geologist and naturalist. Altogether he was one of those strong, clearly defined personalities that impress themselves on the minds of men. 'When,' in the words of a contemporary, 'he rose up in a public meeting to speak, six feet in height, of spare and severe form, with a countenance calm and thoughtful and touched with sadness, hardly lighted by eyes which seemed to turn inwards, as if they were more concerned to see truth than men, the first sentiment aroused was reverence bordering on dread. When the sentences began to come, clear and convincing in their logic, but uttered in the shrill tones of a nervous temperament, and sometimes flung defiantly at the audience, as if he intended to arouse rather than conciliate, it was not surprising that produced on some the impression of being a bitter and passionate disputant.'

 

"But those who knew him better knew that under some apparent harshness of demeanour lay hidden a nature full of tenderness, with sympathies at once delicate and prompt, noble in forgiveness, and humble as a child in acknowledging the faults of temper into which the vehemence of his nature occasionally betrayed him. Under the influence of strong religious feelings which made it his habit for thirty years regularly to retire three times a day for prayer and communication with God, his character gradually mellowed and softened, a growth of years best embodied in his own touching words: 'We are near home; may we be home-like'."

 

Christening: 24 Mar 1791, St Peter Le Bailey, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Education: University of Edinburgh.