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GRid=240898093

John married Sarah TRAVIS on 26 Apr 1888 in St. Alkmund's Church, Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England. Sarah (daughter of Hugh TRAVIS and Hannah SLATER) was born on 15 Oct 1868 in Radbourne, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England; was christened on 13 Mar 1869 in Radbourne, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England; died in Nov 1911 in Grange Farm, Shottle, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England; was buried on 15 Nov 1911 in Duffield Cemetery, Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Radbourne, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England; Farmer

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GRid=41380292

Hugh married Hannah SLATER on 14 Mar 1865 in St. Werburgh's Church, Derby, Derbyshire, England. Hannah (daughter of William SLATER and Mary Ann GOODWIN) was born on 14 Dec 1838 in Hazelwood, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England; died on 5 Jul 1905 in Osbournby House, Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England; was buried on 8 Jul 1905 in Duffield Cemetery, Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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GRid=41380321

Thomas married Hannah HOLMES on 30 Mar 1811 in Bakewell, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England. Hannah was born in 1786 in Beeley, Matlock, Derbyshire, England; died in 1860 in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England; Farmer

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GRid=240956539

William married Mary Ann GOODWIN on 28 Mar 1831 in St. Peter's Church, Derby, Derbyshire, England. Mary was born on 18 Dec 1807 in Hazelwood, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England; died on 16 Jun 1899 in Osbournby House, Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England; was buried on 19 Jun 1899 in Duffield Cemetery, Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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GRid=240896480

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1841, Hazelwood, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England
• Census: 1851, Hazelwood, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England

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GRid=271540612

Joseph married Elizabeth SLATER on 11 May 1810 in St. Alkmund's Church, Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of John SLATER and Hannah GOODWIN) was born in 1788 in Belper, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England; was christened on 13 Jul 1788 in St. Alkmund's Church, Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England; died on 16 Nov 1871 in Hazelwood, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England; was buried on 18 Nov 1871 in St. John the Evangelist Churchyard, Hazelwood, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1841, Hazelwood, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England
• Census: 1851, Hazelwood, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England
• Census: 1871, Hazelwood, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England; Duffield and Shottle Road

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• Residence: Shottle, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England; Thomas Slater opened his farmhouse kitchen, which could accommodate up to 50 people, for services
• Will: 16 Oct 1821, Derby, Derbyshire, England

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Thomas Slater known as "Parson Slater of Shottle"

Thomas Slater was born in 1738 and from an early age was such an avid reader particularly of the Bible that it was said he would become a Parson and, because of this, was affectionately called “Parson” Slater. He was converted at the newly erected Crich chapel in 1765 to which he had been taken by the stone mason who was building a barn for him on his farm at Shottle. He joined the Society at Crich before, two years later, opening his farmhouse kitchen, which could accommodate up to 50 people, for services where Thomas Slater was undoubtedly Class Leader. The Society formed part of the Derbyshire Round, a Round being the forerunner of the Circuit, and was regularly visited by the Round preachers one of the most notable of which was Francis Asbury, the first Bishop of the Methodist Church in the Americas, the 200th anniversary of whose death was commemorated last year.

In about 1770, Thomas Slater became a recognised Local Preacher. For nearly 50 years, he fervently spread the Gospel and it was undoubtedly through him more than anyone else that the Derbyshire Methodist Societies were formed. Preaching was far from easy for him. He had to endure being pelted with stones and eggs. On one occasion, while stood to preach by the side of a house, someone from a bedroom window using a stick with a hook on the end tried to make him an object of ridicule by lifting off his wig and twirling it round. The power of his message was undiminished though and many through him were brought to know their Lord, the most notable being Joseph Taylor converted at an open air service in Duffield. He assisted Thomas Slater with his services and later became one of Wesley’s preachers, a member of the Legal Hundred, the first Superintendent of the newly formed Ashby de la Zouch Circuit in 1792 and finally, in 1802, President of Conference.

In Duffield, following the formation of a Society there through his open air preaching, he hired a room for the 1770- 1771 winter and finally secured a site for the first chapel which opened in 1777. He also procured a site for a chapel in Belper which opened five years later. It seems that, while not recorded in his Journal, during its construction Thomas Slater invited John Wesley to come to Belper to preach and that a crowd proceeded to the site of the chapel led by him arms linked with Thomas Slater on one side and holding the hand of Mary, Thomas Slater’s daughter, on the other. Certainly, Mary would relate how, as a girl of twelve, she had heard John Wesley preach in Belper Market Place and had walked in procession to the site of the chapel alongside John Wesley who had held her hand.

Upon becoming a local preacher Thomas Slater had vowed that if the Lord showed him some fruits from his work, he would preach the Gospel in every town and village in the county. In 1809, he said that he had fulfilled that vow. He was a familiar figure riding his famous mare and his stamina was formidable. At harvest time he would leave with his labourers, travel some 8 miles to preach and be there next morning when they arrived for work. On one Sunday, he preached in Leicester, Nottingham and Derby.

In 1816, John Slater, his son, built a chapel on the garden attached to the farm but not before his father had held several prayer meetings on it “to know the Lord’s will”.

He died in 1821 aged 83 leaving a widow of nearly 85 to whom he had been married for almost 64 years, 9 children, 60 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren. It was from this line of descendants that two would come, Humphrey Cooper and his son, William Gervase Cooper, who would have a profound effect on the development of Methodism in a small corner of North West Leicestershire one part of which is in the National Forest East Circuit and the other in the South Derbyshire one

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GRid=239417449

Thomas married Elizabeth HITCHCOCK on 21 Dec 1757 in Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Nathaniel HITCHCOCK) was born in 1737 in Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England; died on 17 Nov 1833 in Shottle, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England; was buried on 21 Nov 1833 in St. Alkmund's Churchyard, Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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GRid=239417532

John married Hannah GOODWIN on 7 Sep 1784 in Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England. Hannah (daughter of William GOODWIN and Elizabeth EYRE) was born in 1764 in Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England; was christened on 29 Apr 1764 in St. Alkmund's Church, Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England; died in 1839 in Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England; was buried on 12 Oct 1839 in St. Alkmund's Churchyard, Duffield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]