Author: Joyce, James
Biography:
JOYCE, James (1781-1850: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 2 Nov. 1781 at Frome, Somerset, the eldest of at least three children of Jeremiah Joyce (1756-96) and his wife Ann Sumner (1762-92), who had married at Freshford, near Bath, Somerset, on 31 May 1780. It is not known who took over responsibility for his education after his parents’ early deaths. He was educated at St. Edmund’s Hall Oxford (matric. 1798, BA 1804, MA 1805) and ordained deacon and priest (1805). He was curate at Henley on Thames (1805-14) and then stipendiary curate at Freshford from 1815 and Hitcham, near Maidenhead, Bucks., from 1821. He became vicar of St. Martin’s, Dorking, Surrey (1836-1850), a living in the gift of the Duke of Norfolk. He married Sarah Brakspear (1792-1856) on 19 June 1811 at St. Mary’s, Henley on Thames. They went on to have twelve children. He died on 9 Oct. 1850 at the vicarage, Dorking. Sarah, his wife, died there on 12 May 1856. In addition to the work listed here, he wrote a minor theological treatise, A Treatise on Love to God(1822), and, just before his death, Hymns, with Notes (1850). (ancestry.co.uk 29 Mar. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 29 Mar. 2023; CCEd 29 Mar. 2023; Arthur L. Humphries, The Somerset Roll [1897], 59; Bath Chronicle 4 July 1811, 24 Oct. 1850, 22 May 1856; GM Dec. 1850, 670) AA