BOURNE

Hugh ( son of Joseph Bourne of Fordhays farm in parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, farmer ). b. Fordhays farm 3 April 1772; a carpenter and builder at Bemersley, Staffs.; joined Wesley an methodists June 1799; built a chapel at Harrisehead 1802; held a camp meeting on the mountain at Mowcop near Harrisehead 31 May 1807, first of many held in Staff ords hire; expelled from Wesley an Methodist Society 27 June 1808; formed first cla of a new community at Standley near Bemersley 14 March 1810, first general meeting was held at Tunstall 26 July 1811, name Primitive Methodist was finally adopted 13 Feb. 1812, first annual conference was held at Hull May 1820, and a deed poll of the Primitive Methodist was enrolled in Court of Chancery 10 Feb. 1830; purchased land and built at Tunstall their first chapel 1811; travelled in United States 1844–6; author of Remarks on the ministery of women 1808; History of the Primitive Methodist 1823; A treatise on Baptism 1823; edited The Primitive Methodist Magazine 1824 to about 1844. d. Bemersley 11 Oct. 1852. bur. at Englesea Brook, Cheshire. J. Walford’s Memoirs of H. Bourne 1855, portrait ; J. Petty’s Primitive Methodist connexion 1864, portrait ; Simpson’s Recollections of H. Bourne 1859. BOURNE, James . b. Dalby near Spilsby, Lincoln shire 1773; teacher of drawing in London; made numerous sketches in Cumber land and in Devon and Cornwall; Huntington i an minister at Sutton Cold field, War wicks hire May 1845 to death. d. Sutton Cold field 11 June 1854 in 82 year. W. Benson’s Life and letters of J. Bourne 1875, portrait .