John Davies

John Davies was born in 1769 in Caermarthenshire, Wales. His father was a respectable farmer. He joined the Church of the Calvinistic Methodists in 1786 and studied at Trevecca College in Wales. In 1792, the ministers from Trevecca moved to Cheshunt in Essex, where he continued until 1795.
Soon after he finished his studies, John married Dorothy Anna Maria Schoen. They had six children, the eldest being born at Handsworth in Staffordshire.
After a period at Tetbury in Gloucestershire, where their youngest child Ebenezer was born in 1808, John became minister at Whitstable in Kent, then later he moved to Reading. He became minister of Bracknell congregational Church in Berkshire iuntil 1844. In the 1841 census hw was living in Warfield with his wife and eldest daughter. His younger son and his wife were also present. He was still living at Warfield in 1851 with his daughter, his wife having died in 1846.
Rev. John Davies died at Bracknell in 1861 aged 91.