Rev
Joseph
Dinzey
Born about in Gustavia, Saint-Barthélemy, Guadeloupe
Ancestors 
Son of Richard Dinzey
and Eliza (Peterson) Dinzey
Brother of
Robertina (Dinzey) Ridderhjerta, Thomas Dinzey, Eliza Dinzey, Anna Dinzey, Richard Burton Dinzey, Virginia Dinzey and John Keightley Dinzey
Husband of
Louisa Victoria (Towers) Dinzey
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Amy Winifred (Dinzey) Sylvester
Died
at about age 86
in Norwell, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 30 May 2009
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Biography
Joseph was born in St Bartholomew, West Indies in 1833 to Richard Dinzey and Eliza Petersen.[1]
Joseph Dinzey was sent at the age of fourteen to Burlington College in New Jersey, U.S.A., to complete his preparatory education. This was an Anglican boy's boarding school and he remained at the school for four years. In 1853 he entered St. Augustine's College, Canterbury, England to prepare for the Ministry.
Joseph Dinzey returned to the West Indies and was nominated assistant curate of St. George's Church in St. Kitts. He was ordained priest on August 19th, 1858 and one year later received his license as Curator of Christ Church, Nicola Town and St. Mary's Church, Cayon on the island of St. Kitts. He left his post after one year and then moved to St. John's Church, Antiqua as curate of St. Lukes Chapel.
The Reverend Joseph Dinzey is now remembered as the founder of the Compton Anglican Girls College in Compton County Quebec (1874-1884).
By 1900. he was married to a Louisa, and living in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.[2]
Sources
- ↑ "Caribbean Births and Baptisms, 1590-1928," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XLJD-CVB : 29 December 2014), Joseph Dinzey, 18 May 1833; citing St Bartholomew, West Indies, reference ; FHL microfilm 596,986.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9Y8-JD5 : 6 March 2015), Joseph Dinzey, Precinct 9 Boston city Ward 11, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing sheet 19B, family 367, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,681.
- Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:23TX-JRB : 13 March 2018), Joseph Dinzey, 27 Nov 1919; citing Death, Norwell, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, certificate number 27, page 380, State Archives, Boston.
- Fact: Christening (17 Dec 1833) Paternoster Row Wesleyan Methodist Registry, London, England
- Fact: Occupation Reverend
- "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 29 November 2018, 01:12), entry for Joseph Dinzey(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LH3Q-W3R); contributed by various users.
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Categories: Gustavia, Saint-Barthélemy
birth: May 1836 West Indies residence: 1900 Boston city, Suffolk, Massachusetts census: 1900 Boston city, Suffolk, Massachusetts spouse: Louisa V Dinzey children: Amy W Dinzey, Ethel M Dinzey