From here they moved to Haywards Heath in Sussex in 1904 where he had a very successful period as a Primitive Methodist Minister. He and Flo were in Burnham on Crouch, Essex, until mid 1903. Their first child died of TB at the age of 18 and their last child died of meningitis at the age of 2. Frederick and Flo went on to have six children. He moved to Burham on Crouch (Essex) as an evangelist in mid-1900, returning very briefly to Stony Stratford for his marriage in the Baptist church in December of that year. Here he met his future wife, the 26 year Florence (Flo) Eales, the daughter of a local draper. In 1898 he moved to Stony Stratford, near the London North Western Railway workshops in Wolverton. He spent one year as an evangelist in York (from 1895) and then moved to Luton for two years (1896-98). It is possible this post was in the railway works of the North Eastern Railway in York. He began his working life in the second half of the 1880s and was recorded as a ‘Clerk’ in 1891. This may be a misprint but Primitive Methodists seem to have encouraged ‘boy evangelists’. His first formal link with the Primitive Methodists dates from his appointment as a lay preacher in 1881 when he was just nine years old. A brief biography is in The Methodist Local Preachers Who’s Who, 1934. His mother, who lived in York before she met her husband, was a member of the Stonegate Primitive Methodist Church and it is most likely that through her Frederick Pennock began his life-long commitment to the Primitive Methodists. His father, a joiner, came to York from a Pickering milling family. His father was a carriage builder in the railway works. Early Lifeįrederick Pennock was born in York on the first of June 1872. In his early years (at least) he worked under the Primitive Methodist General Missionary Committee who seem to have guided the location of his work within the UK. Over his life in the UK, written records describe him in a number of roles: Evangelist, Primitive Methodist Evangelist, Hired Local Preacher, Primitive Methodist Minister (1917-1926), Primitive Methodist Minister/Circuit Superintendent (1926-31) and Lay Pastor (1936-1940).
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