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==Family History==
 
==Family History==
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John Monypenny was born about 1870 in Belfast, Ireland to William (1832-1915) and Mary Ann Flavelle (1839-1909) Monypenny. His father was born in Ireland. His mother was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England to William (b. 1806) and Mary Ann (b. 1805) Flavell. His parents were married June 20, 1862 in Fairfield, Lancashire, England, which is near Liverpool. Early in their marriage they settled in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. By 1891, they were living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where they both died.
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John Monypenny was born about 1870 in Belfast, Ireland to William (1832-1915) and Mary Ann Flavelle (1839-1909) Monypenny. His father was born in Ireland. His mother was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England to William (b. 1806) and Mary Ann (b. 1805) Flavell. His parents were married June 20, 1862 in Fairfield, Lancashire, England, which is near Liverpool. Early in their marriage they settled in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. By 1891, they were living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where they both died.
  
 
John had at least five siblings:
 
John had at least five siblings:
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* James Monypenny (1863-1948)
 
* James Monypenny (1863-1948)
 
* William Flavelle Moneypenny (1866-1912)
 
* William Flavelle Moneypenny (1866-1912)
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There are a number of variants on John's name... in Brethren literature it's generally spelled "Monypenny", on Ancestry.com, it's "Monypeny" for John but as will be noted, "Moneypenny" for his siblings.
 
There are a number of variants on John's name... in Brethren literature it's generally spelled "Monypenny", on Ancestry.com, it's "Monypeny" for John but as will be noted, "Moneypenny" for his siblings.
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==Itinerant work==
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===California===
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====Los Angeles: June-Sept 1894====
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John was commended around 1892 to two years of Gospel work in Ontario, Canada. Early in March, 1894, became exercised about joining [[William John McClure]] in California, and wrote stating his interest, which inspired McClure to raise funds from Andrew Fraser and others to purchase a gospel tent from Baker & Lockwood, in Kansas City, Missouri. Andrew Fraser encouraged Monypenny to "come with all speed" to Los Angeles, and enclosed his fare.
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He arrived June 8th, and tent meetings began on the 17th with initially fair attendance, but they soon started some creative methods to increase attendance. They put up pictures of the Tabernacle, and advertising boards around the area with the subject matter, and McClure spoke at the tent on the subject, with Monypenny following with the Gospel. They had discovered that due to various Los Angeles missions preaching holiness teachings, and "unintelligent Gospel preaching", according to Dickson, there was an over-abundance of "Gospel Meeting" advertisements, and this fresh strategy was helpful, and subsequently filled the tent.
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McClure soon wrote to C.W. Ross commenting on the fresh fruit, and he had responded with a recollection of "God allowing Israel to use a strategem. They had been beaten by the enemy, so God said, 'Make an ambush.' He could have given the victory in plain open warfare, but He chose to let them use strategy."
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The tent meetings went on for three months, and "God wrought wonderfully as night after night the Gospel was proclaimed in simplicity and power, and a "goodly number" was added to the West Jefferson assembly. In the biography of McClure, a notable conversion was in "an old Irish lady, Mrs. Barr", 81, who "was awakened and saved at that season of blessing. She bore a clear testimony to the end of her days at the ripe old age" of 103. Her daughter was also "gathered out" and continued in fellowship until the age of 89 when she was called home in 1941. The tent was taken down September 12.
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====Pomona: Sept-Dec 1894====
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After the tent was taken down in Los Angeles, it was shipped directly to Pomona, with a campaign opened September 16, with nightly meetings thru December. When the tent was first pitched, there were three meeting in a home in Pomona to break bread, but by the time the tent was removed, there were eighteen, and the McComa's Hall was rented, and a testimony established.
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====Oakland & San Francisco: Dec 1894-Jan 1895====
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While the tent was stored away, McClure (and presumably Monypenny) ministered to the assemblies at Oakland and San Francisco. Then in January 1895, while being nursed in the home of A. Foster with the help of McClure and Monypenny, Andrew Fraser passed away at the young age of 39. After his memorial, McClure returned again to Oakland and San Francisco for more ministry.
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====Pomona: May 1895====
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The tent was pitched again in May 1895 in Pomona "with blessing for a number of weeks".
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====Los Angeles: Aug-Oct 1895====
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In August, the tent was moved back to Los Angeles and pitched on Washington Street thru October. "Once more the hand of God was seen in power, and a harvest was gathered in." About this time, an old assembly on Temple Street had to move, and opportunity arose for a merger with West Jefferson, creating an assembly with over 60 in fellowship.
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====Los Angeles: Summer 1896====
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In 1896, McClure accompanied Mr. Ross on a trip out East, but returned in time to assist Monypenny with a tent they pitched in Los Angeles on Grand Avenue. McClure spoke from his dispensational chart, which was regarded in the area as a fresh line of teaching that drew many in curiosity. "The power of the Holy Spirit was greatly manifested in these meetings, sinners were broken down under conviction of sin, and were saved, and saints were greatly blessed." Mr. Monypenny then left to visit relatives in the East, and soon after sailed for Ireland for work there.
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====Toronto: Mar 1934====
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"J. Moneypenny is seeing fruit in Broadview Gospel Hall".
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====Northern Ireland: July 1935====
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Large meeting July 13th in Bleary, Northern Ireland, practical ministry by Messrs. Rodgers, Moneypenny, Mateer, Douglas and McEwen.
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====Kansas City & Omaha: Oct 1936====
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In Oct of 1936, the KCKS believers were blessed with F.W. Schwartz speaking to the children of the Sunday School one Sunday morning. Then J. Moneypenny (sic) was "with us the next Tuesday evening", and John Walden preached the gospel on Wed, Thu and Fri evenings. J.J. Rouse came on the following Wednesday, and at the invitation of Mr. Rouse, the [African-American] assembly dismissed their meeting and came, and we had a very happy time together listening to his account of pioneer work in Canada."
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During the Oct 9-11 conference at Omaha, Nebraska, ministering brethren included J.J. Rouse, J. Moneypenny (sic), J.R. Elliott, Don and Jack Charles, George Gray, G.B. Morgan, Dave and John Horn, D. Lawrence, A. Rodgers, John Walden and W.W. White
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====Texas: Nov 1936====
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After two weeks of blessing of attendance of 25-30, mostly adults, in open air by Robert Thompson, the assembly at San Antonio, Texas expected Bro. Moneypenny (sic) for five nights before he went to the Houston conference.
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====Vancouver, BC: Easter 1937====
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Easter conferences at Seymour Street Hall were well attended, speakers included J. Monypenny, J. Waugh, J. Lyon, J. Sommacal, J. Hunt, W. Ingram, and Don R. Charles. Speakers at Mt. Pleasant Hall included P. Hoogendam, H.K. Downie, Inglis Fleming, and W. Reid.
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====Miami: Summer 1937====
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After meetings at the Gospel Hall on 56 NW 29th St. from Murdo Mackenzie, John Bramhall Jr., and Owen Hoffman in the Fall, J. Monypenny was having a series of meetings with good interest.
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====Cyre, Egypt: 1944====
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"A letter from J. Moneypenny (sic) of Cyre, Egypt, states that he and his daughter, a schoolteacher, are both well and he is handing out tracts and talking to the service men, as well as helping in their small meeting. He has recovered from his fall some months ago, when he was taken to a hospital."
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==Marriage and Family==
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In 1900, for the first time in fifteen years, William McClure returned to Ireland, partly to be a guest at the wedding of Mr. Monypenny to Miss Wright, of Temore, Ireland. A 1944 Light and Liberty issue references Monypenny doing evangelistic work in Cyre, Egypt with his daughter, a schoolteacher.
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==Influence==
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* Miss Ella G. Clothier (1847-1943) born near Somerset, England on April 2, 1847. Saved at 12 years of age and lived a very consistent Christian life. Introduced to the assemblies thru tent meetings in 1893 in Pomona, CA, followed by failing health with no close relatives or means of support except trust in the Lord. Herb Harris taught and Lycurgus Holditch gave testimony.
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* Sam McEwen (1877-1944) in an obituary in Light and Liberty indicated that after much of his family was saved in tent meetings in Petersburg in the early 1890's by William Beverege and Alex Lamb, followed by Benjamin Bradford and James Hamilton, Monypenny visited around 1896 and provided some of Sam's earliest discipleship.
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* Mrs. Mary Jane Stewart (1866-1943) was saved for fifty years thru the preaching of brethren Moneypenny and Kay, and in fellowship with the saints at [[MacNab Street Gospel Hall, Hamilton, ON]].
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* Ancestry.com
 
* Ancestry.com
 
* Findagrave.com
 
* Findagrave.com
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* "[[http://www.plymouthbrethren.org/series/6229 http://www.plymouthbrethren.org/series/6229] William J. McClure: A Beloved Brother and Faithful Minister]" by [[John Trew Dickson]], privately printed, n.d.
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* LaL: 1934 Mar; 1935; 1936 Nov-Dec; 1937; 1943-1944;
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* LOI: 1949 July

Revision as of 23:23, 23 August 2019

Family History

John Monypenny was born about 1870 in Belfast, Ireland to William (1832-1915) and Mary Ann Flavelle (1839-1909) Monypenny. His father was born in Ireland. His mother was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England to William (b. 1806) and Mary Ann (b. 1805) Flavell. His parents were married June 20, 1862 in Fairfield, Lancashire, England, which is near Liverpool. Early in their marriage they settled in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. By 1891, they were living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where they both died.

John had at least five siblings:

  • James Monypenny (1863-1948)
  • William Flavelle Moneypenny (1866-1912)
  • Thomas Flavelle Moneypenny (1868-1948)
  • Minnie F. Moneypenny Harding (1874-1963)
  • Louis Forde Moneypenny (1877-1971)

There are a number of variants on John's name... in Brethren literature it's generally spelled "Monypenny", on Ancestry.com, it's "Monypeny" for John but as will be noted, "Moneypenny" for his siblings.

Itinerant work

California

Los Angeles: June-Sept 1894

John was commended around 1892 to two years of Gospel work in Ontario, Canada. Early in March, 1894, became exercised about joining William John McClure in California, and wrote stating his interest, which inspired McClure to raise funds from Andrew Fraser and others to purchase a gospel tent from Baker & Lockwood, in Kansas City, Missouri. Andrew Fraser encouraged Monypenny to "come with all speed" to Los Angeles, and enclosed his fare.

He arrived June 8th, and tent meetings began on the 17th with initially fair attendance, but they soon started some creative methods to increase attendance. They put up pictures of the Tabernacle, and advertising boards around the area with the subject matter, and McClure spoke at the tent on the subject, with Monypenny following with the Gospel. They had discovered that due to various Los Angeles missions preaching holiness teachings, and "unintelligent Gospel preaching", according to Dickson, there was an over-abundance of "Gospel Meeting" advertisements, and this fresh strategy was helpful, and subsequently filled the tent.

McClure soon wrote to C.W. Ross commenting on the fresh fruit, and he had responded with a recollection of "God allowing Israel to use a strategem. They had been beaten by the enemy, so God said, 'Make an ambush.' He could have given the victory in plain open warfare, but He chose to let them use strategy."

The tent meetings went on for three months, and "God wrought wonderfully as night after night the Gospel was proclaimed in simplicity and power, and a "goodly number" was added to the West Jefferson assembly. In the biography of McClure, a notable conversion was in "an old Irish lady, Mrs. Barr", 81, who "was awakened and saved at that season of blessing. She bore a clear testimony to the end of her days at the ripe old age" of 103. Her daughter was also "gathered out" and continued in fellowship until the age of 89 when she was called home in 1941. The tent was taken down September 12.

Pomona: Sept-Dec 1894

After the tent was taken down in Los Angeles, it was shipped directly to Pomona, with a campaign opened September 16, with nightly meetings thru December. When the tent was first pitched, there were three meeting in a home in Pomona to break bread, but by the time the tent was removed, there were eighteen, and the McComa's Hall was rented, and a testimony established.

Oakland & San Francisco: Dec 1894-Jan 1895

While the tent was stored away, McClure (and presumably Monypenny) ministered to the assemblies at Oakland and San Francisco. Then in January 1895, while being nursed in the home of A. Foster with the help of McClure and Monypenny, Andrew Fraser passed away at the young age of 39. After his memorial, McClure returned again to Oakland and San Francisco for more ministry.

Pomona: May 1895

The tent was pitched again in May 1895 in Pomona "with blessing for a number of weeks".

Los Angeles: Aug-Oct 1895

In August, the tent was moved back to Los Angeles and pitched on Washington Street thru October. "Once more the hand of God was seen in power, and a harvest was gathered in." About this time, an old assembly on Temple Street had to move, and opportunity arose for a merger with West Jefferson, creating an assembly with over 60 in fellowship.

Los Angeles: Summer 1896

In 1896, McClure accompanied Mr. Ross on a trip out East, but returned in time to assist Monypenny with a tent they pitched in Los Angeles on Grand Avenue. McClure spoke from his dispensational chart, which was regarded in the area as a fresh line of teaching that drew many in curiosity. "The power of the Holy Spirit was greatly manifested in these meetings, sinners were broken down under conviction of sin, and were saved, and saints were greatly blessed." Mr. Monypenny then left to visit relatives in the East, and soon after sailed for Ireland for work there.

Toronto: Mar 1934

"J. Moneypenny is seeing fruit in Broadview Gospel Hall".

Northern Ireland: July 1935

Large meeting July 13th in Bleary, Northern Ireland, practical ministry by Messrs. Rodgers, Moneypenny, Mateer, Douglas and McEwen.

Kansas City & Omaha: Oct 1936

In Oct of 1936, the KCKS believers were blessed with F.W. Schwartz speaking to the children of the Sunday School one Sunday morning. Then J. Moneypenny (sic) was "with us the next Tuesday evening", and John Walden preached the gospel on Wed, Thu and Fri evenings. J.J. Rouse came on the following Wednesday, and at the invitation of Mr. Rouse, the [African-American] assembly dismissed their meeting and came, and we had a very happy time together listening to his account of pioneer work in Canada."

During the Oct 9-11 conference at Omaha, Nebraska, ministering brethren included J.J. Rouse, J. Moneypenny (sic), J.R. Elliott, Don and Jack Charles, George Gray, G.B. Morgan, Dave and John Horn, D. Lawrence, A. Rodgers, John Walden and W.W. White

Texas: Nov 1936

After two weeks of blessing of attendance of 25-30, mostly adults, in open air by Robert Thompson, the assembly at San Antonio, Texas expected Bro. Moneypenny (sic) for five nights before he went to the Houston conference.

Vancouver, BC: Easter 1937

Easter conferences at Seymour Street Hall were well attended, speakers included J. Monypenny, J. Waugh, J. Lyon, J. Sommacal, J. Hunt, W. Ingram, and Don R. Charles. Speakers at Mt. Pleasant Hall included P. Hoogendam, H.K. Downie, Inglis Fleming, and W. Reid.

Miami: Summer 1937

After meetings at the Gospel Hall on 56 NW 29th St. from Murdo Mackenzie, John Bramhall Jr., and Owen Hoffman in the Fall, J. Monypenny was having a series of meetings with good interest.

Cyre, Egypt: 1944

"A letter from J. Moneypenny (sic) of Cyre, Egypt, states that he and his daughter, a schoolteacher, are both well and he is handing out tracts and talking to the service men, as well as helping in their small meeting. He has recovered from his fall some months ago, when he was taken to a hospital."

Marriage and Family

In 1900, for the first time in fifteen years, William McClure returned to Ireland, partly to be a guest at the wedding of Mr. Monypenny to Miss Wright, of Temore, Ireland. A 1944 Light and Liberty issue references Monypenny doing evangelistic work in Cyre, Egypt with his daughter, a schoolteacher.

Influence

  • Miss Ella G. Clothier (1847-1943) born near Somerset, England on April 2, 1847. Saved at 12 years of age and lived a very consistent Christian life. Introduced to the assemblies thru tent meetings in 1893 in Pomona, CA, followed by failing health with no close relatives or means of support except trust in the Lord. Herb Harris taught and Lycurgus Holditch gave testimony.
  • Sam McEwen (1877-1944) in an obituary in Light and Liberty indicated that after much of his family was saved in tent meetings in Petersburg in the early 1890's by William Beverege and Alex Lamb, followed by Benjamin Bradford and James Hamilton, Monypenny visited around 1896 and provided some of Sam's earliest discipleship.
  • Mrs. Mary Jane Stewart (1866-1943) was saved for fifty years thru the preaching of brethren Moneypenny and Kay, and in fellowship with the saints at MacNab Street Gospel Hall, Hamilton, ON.


Sources

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