FREDERICK RICHARD ANDREWS – family relationships, facts, document/photo gallery in ANCESTRY – https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/23784401/person/172087067355/facts

b. 1837 All Stretton, Shropshire. d. 10 July 1928, Yorkshire.

A famous minister in the Primitive Methodists, see obituary below.

Involved in two courts cases:-
1. Against John and Rhoda Herbert for slander and libel relating to him being the father of their daughter’s , FANNY HERBERT (aged 17), baby, FREDERICK RICHARD HERBERT.
2. By FANNY against the Rev claiming he was the father and for child maintenance payments.

He strenously denied (on oath, in court) that he was the father. He won £20 damages in the slander case plus £30 legal costs. Fanny was initially awarded 5 shillings and week in the second case, but this was overturned on appeal.

ROGER HERBERT and ANGELA RUTH HERBERT’s great-grandfather, unknown for many years! Eventually found out in 2020 by ROGER’s (fanny’s great grandson) DNA match to one of the Rev.’s descendants. It only took 138 years…..

Full court proceedings #1 here.
Full court proceedings #2 here

Frederick Richard Andrews

Transcription of Obituary published in the Minutes of Conference by Rev.

P. Tomlinson

To the majority of Primitive Methodists of this generation, Frederick Richard Andrews is a name and nothing more perhaps, but forty years ago it signified the name, known throughout the Denomination, of one of the most gifted and eloquent preachers our Church has produced. The mere announcement. of that name was sufficient to guarantee a crowded congregation.

Born amongst the delightful scenery in the neighbourhood of Church Stretton, Shropshire, the family removed, when Frederick was but a little child, to Brierley Hill. It was upon this Circuit that he became a Local Preacher and from here he eventually passed into the ministry of our Church. Serving his probation on the old Ludlow Circuit, his subsequent ministry was spent at Brierley Hill, Tunstall, Wrockwardine Wood, Darlaston, Bilston, Old Hill, West Bromwich, Sheffield, Liverpool and Kilburn (London).

Possessing a certain amount of native ability, he set himself, early in life, to deep and earnest study to improve his mind and to develop his natural qualities until eventually he became one of the foremost preachers in our Church—eloquent, powerful, popular.

Despite these popular gifts and the great demands for his services he was ever a faithful Circuit minister. Interested in the welfare of his people and conscientious in the discharge of his Circuit work, in addition to being an arresting and convincing preacher, he was a devoted pastor and friend of the people. No wonder, therefore, that on his Circuits new schemes were entered upon and old debts were liquidated, whilst at the same time he witnessed many wonderful seasons of revival and spiritual renewal. Conversions were many and frequent, and it was always his proud boast that he never had to report a decrease of membership upon any of his Circuits.

Literary work also found prominence in his life. Two small booklets came from his pen, one called ‘‘The Glory of Old Age” and the other ‘‘Care for the Young,’’ together with two books, “A Bright Light in a Dark, Place” and “Yet” a volume of sermons. Later in life he became widely known in and around the city of Hull as a weekly contributor to The Hull Evening News under the pen name of “Marcus Faithful.”

A casual acquaintance with our friend would give the impression that he was proud and even austere, and certainly he was. Yet beneath a proud exterior and a dignified demeanour there was a warm and friendly heart, full of tenderness and sympathy, and he was a great ‘‘encourager.”

F. R. Andrews was possessed of a passion for the salvation of men and women, born of his own rich experience of the joy of salvation and a deep sense of the wonder and reality of Redeeming Love. He had read widely and deeply in

theology, poetry, history and biography. As a student he was thorough. His public utterances always revealed thoroughness of preparation and clearness of perception.

He possessed a winsome and an attractive personality, a pleasing style, a rich, clear, musical voice and a chaste vocabulary.

His active ministry covered a period of forty-one years. Throughout this time he was wonderfully blessed in his wife a sweet, gentle, loveable soul. Mrs. Andrews

– a daughter of the sainted James Prosser – gave herself unstintingly to assisting her husband in his high calling, and his success was due in no small measure to the loving devotion and self-denial of his wife. For many years, despite the responsibilities of a large family, Mrs. Andrews acted as her husband’s secretary, thus relieving him of much detail work.

Twenty-seven years ago Mr. Andrews superannuated and settled first in Hull and afterwards in Hessle. Throughout that period he was ever at the service of the Churches. To the end he retained his interest in reading and preaching and the affairs of the Church, until God called him on July 10th, 1928, after a long illness, at the ripe age of ninety-one.

The funeral service in our Hessle Church was conducted by Revs. P. Tomlinson and T. Hacking, assisted by Revs. A. Wood and L. Robinson, and Alderman J.V. Mainprize, J.P. Rev. G. Hind gave the address, in which he paid tender tribute to the worth and work of our brother.

Mrs. Andrews survived her husband by but a few months, and she passed to the higher life at the home of her daughter (Mrs. Lloyd) on January 2nd, 1929, at the age of eighty-five.

Reference

PM Minutes 1929/253

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