Ebenezer Joseph Mather

Ebenezer Joseph Mather was the founder of The Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen now often abbreviated as the Fishermens Mission. He is affectionally remembered as the fishermans friend.

Ebenezer was born onJune 1849 at Foregate Street, Stafford, England. He was the son of a shoe manufacturer Henry Penkett Mather and his wife Elizabeth Douthwaite. Ebenezer was raised as a member of the Plymouth Brethren however in later life he joined the Church of England and remained Anglican for the rest of his life. According to the 1871 census He was noted as an auditor. Ebenezer married his first wife Caroline Eliza Lough in Islington onSeptember 1872. After various moves and a growing family Ebenezer moved to Islington where He became a of the Thames Church Mission Society which was founded in 1844.

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