Hepzibah Featherstone (Evans) Whitehouse (abt. 1805)

Born about 1805 in Dudley, Worcester, England

Wife of Isaac Whitehouse — married 23 Dec 1823 in Dudley St. Thomas, Worcester, England

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Biography

Hepzibah Featherstone Evans was probably born in Worcester, England in 1805 to William and Sarah Evans. She was baptized at St. Thomas, Dudley, Worcester 23 June 1805.

Hepzibah married Isaac Whitehouse 23 December 1823 at Dudley St. Thomas. Shortly after their marriage, Reverend Whitehouse began his missionary work with the Methodists in Jamaica. They served there for the next twenty years. Reverend Whitehouse is credited with establishing Wesleyan chapels in Beechamville, St. Ann's Bay, Ocho Rios, and Epworth. In 1846, after a two-year visit to England, Reverend Whitehouse and his family returned to the West Indies and he served as chairman and superintendent of the Bahamas District for six years. The Whitehouses eventually returned to Jamaica.

The couple had children - among them were Hepzibah, Charlotte, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Maria Whitehouse.

Sources

England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, for Hepzibah Featherstone Evans, Saint Thomas, Dudley Worcester, England, 1805. Family History Library Film # 378764.

England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973, Worcester, England, 1823.

"Rise and progress of Wesleyan-Methodism in Jamaica", Henry Blaine Foster, Wesleyan Missionary, 1881, pp 44-45, 191, 214.