JOSHUA
,
SETH
(
1858
-
1925
),
minister (Presb.)
;
b.
10 Apr. 1858
in
Tŷ Capel
,
Trosnant Uchaf
,
Pontypool, Mon.
, son of
George
Joshua
and
Mary
(née
Walden
)
his wife. He m.
Mary
Rees
,
Llantrisant
, in
Neath, Glam.
,
23 Sept. 1883
, and they had eight children (one son,
Peter
, was a
minister
and a
popular evangelist
in
America
; another son,
Lyn
, was responsible with
Mai
Jones
(see above)
for the radio programme ‘
We'll keep a welcome in the hillside
’).
Seth
attended the local British School. He worked closely with his brother
Frank
(see below)
founding the
Mission Hall
cause in
Neath
. He was a noted
evangelist
, travelling through
Britain
and visiting
U.S.A.
In
1893
he was ord.
minister (Presb.)
and worked with the
Forward Movement
, a branch of the
Connexion's Home Mission
,
establishing evangelising centres
in
Glamorganshire
and
Monmouthshire
. He d.
21 May 1925
and was buried in the
Council cemetery
,
Llanilltud Fach
,
Neath
.
A younger brother was
FRANCIS JAMES
JOSHUA
(
FRANK
;
1861
-
1920
),
minister (Presb.)
; b.
15 Dec. 1861
. He and
Seth
went to
Neath
in
1883
to
hold an Evangelistic Campaign
under the auspices of the
Free Mission
,
Cinderford
. In
1901
the
Free Mission Church
in
Neath
came under the auspices of the
Calvinistic Methodists
as a branch of the
Forward Movement
and he was ord. in the
Cilfynydd Association (Presb.)
in
1903
. The whole of his ministry was spent in
Neath
where he raised a strong and flourishing church, and he became known in the town as ‘
St. Francis of Neath
’. He d.
13 Sept. 1920
a bachelor and was buried in
Llanilltud Fach churchyard
,
Neath
.
Bibliography:
-
T. M. Rees
,
(1926)
;
- see also centenary booklet of the Mission Hall, Neath;
-
Howell Williams
,
(1949)
;
-
J. Morris-Jones
,
(1931)
;
-
Annie Pugh Williams
,
(
c.
1944);
-
Robert Ellis
,
(1951)
;
-
reminiscences of
Peter Rhys Joshua
in
,
1978
.
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