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Thanks Mike, I have got a copy of that. I've found from one of their children's baptisms that Thomas was a chair maker and I just wondered whether this might be a family business. Does anyone know where the name Kilner originates from?

Thanks Cynthia, I've done a search but can't find anyone that looks like my Thomas. I'll work out what info I do have then maybe write it up and make a post looking for some more.

Thanks again,
Elissa

Hello Elissa,

It's always worthwhile putting the names you are researching into the Search Trees bo (above in the dark green bar) to see if anyone on this site has them in their tree. If you find a connection, you can contact the tree owner.


It's also worth googling the names to see what crops up!


If you would like help with your research, why not start a thread of your own? Take a look at the first post on this board for further advice. Regards. C.x

Have you got this from lancsOPC ?

Marriage: 15 Sep 1800 St John, Preston, Lancashire, England
Thomas Kilner - (X), of this parish
Margaret Caddy - of this parish
Witness: Saml. Shakeshaft; William Kilner
Married by Banns by: Thomas Saul Curate

I'm researching another Thomas Kilner born c1777 in Preston. He married Margaret Caddy and they had a few children all born in Preston. In 1851 he is living in the local workhouse. His proffesion was a chair maker. Does anyone know where I might go to find out more about him and the Kilner family?

Elissa

am still monitoring thread.. but PC has been sick for a while.

thanks for all the info.. I have since found out that in later years Esther(Ester) set up a school in West Wales while Thomas was off missioning.....
Its a bit bizzare.. but Elizabeth their daughter.. who married Alfred Bell... show up on the census records living in Sutton in Surrey claiming to be a widow,, yet Alfred is alive and well living with another woman elsewhere in London.. the bizarre bit is that I now work in Sutton and drive down the road where she was living to get to work.........spooky.

lol Gillian
I 'll send her a private message.
Thanks.

WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY .
The Sheffield Independent, and Yorkshire and Derbyshire Advertiser (Sheffield, England), Saturday, October 11, 1834;

There is quite a bit of this one, but will give you the piece which mentioned Thomas Kilner.
The except is about another Missionary the Reverend R S Hardy from the East Indies who was visiting Ceylon.

After continuing some time in Ceylon, he proceeded to the Continent of India, and in one of the stations there, he became acquainted with a fellow missionary named Thomas Kilner, who he understood had been sent out from Sheffield. Thomas Kilner had done a great deal for the increase of God's word in India and had caused hundreds to be brought to the gift of Gospel truth.

Ria x

The original posting was over 5 years ago -it is highly unlikely Hazel will still be monitoring the thread after all this time -better to send her a pm (assuming she is still a member of GR

From: -
The Sheffield Independent, and Yorkshire and Derbyshire Advertiser (Sheffield, England), Saturday, November 30, 1833;
Marriage
On the 21st day last at Columbo, on the Island of Ceylon, the Reverend Thomas Kilner, Wesleyan Missionary at Matura, to Ester, youngest daughter of Mr C Booth of Norton Hammer House near Sheffield.

There is another piece about him but it is rather long and will take me a little time. Cannot cut & paste unfortunately.

Ria x

Hi Hazel & John
I have some online newspapers which mention a Thomas Kilner will type up for you.
Ria x

Hazel

I have no proof that your Thos K was one of mine,—I have lots going back to the 1680s on Cartmel Fell—but I met him in Preston in the early 1800s. My Ks arrived there from Cartmel before 1800 and would have found other K's there. I strongly suspect that they were related in some degree, or at least came from the same area, where the name was not uncommon. They all followed trades connected with the working of wood (chair/brush/bobbin makers). The name is not 'native to Preston and your Rev K was probably from one of these families. I have researched him in only a rather half-hearted way. He went as a missioner to Rheims before going to Ceylon, as it then was, and is credited by the Methodist Missionary Soc with translating the Bible into Tamil. Google credits others. I believe he finished his career in Ripon. He is not a "jar' Kilner, though they did breed Methodist ministers of some seniority. All the above from memory and perhaps inexact. My notes are on a computer which is not currently accessible.

Regards

John Moore

THOMAS KILNER am trying to find any info re Thomas Kilner and his family. he was a Weslyan Missionary in Ceylon(Sri Lanka) in the 1840s....and spend some of missioning in France and Wales. I am a descended from his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Alfred Bell. Dont know if he was part of the KILNER glass family..would love to know though. Hazel