| Administrative History | John Stanley Owen was born in Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, in 1842. He studied at King's College, London, from 1866 to 1868 and was ordained as a deacon in 1868 and a priest in 1869. He began his clerical career in Bermondsey, south London, and went on to the parish of Stepney (east London) in around 1870. In 1873 he was appointed as the first Vicar of the new parish of St Paul's, Sheerness. In 1881 he moved to Birmingham to become Vicar of St Mary's parish church. Five years later, in 1886, he became Vicar of St Alkmund's in Derby. Revd Owen remained there until 1901. The last year of his life was spent as Vicar of Little Eaton. He died there at the beginning of 1903.
He married Emily Turner in 1872, who died in 1876. His second wife, whom he married in 1878, was Harriet Elizabeth Beatrice Moor, widow of the Revd Charles Thomas Moor. Her father was the Revd David Thomas Kerr Drummond, minister of St Thomas's English Episcopalian chapel in Edinburgh. This collection includes papers relating to the Turner, Moor and Drummond families. |
| Custodial History | The papers were deposited in Derbyshire Record Office by a firm of solicitors in September 2001. |