Person: Sparkes, Joseph (1706 - 1741)

• Comments

  VENN
  Adm. pens. (age 16) at ST JOHN'S, July 11, 1699. S. of John, gent. Bapt. Dec. 16, 1682, at St Baptist, Peterborough. School, Peterborough (Mr Warren). ' Matric. 1700; B.A. 1703-4. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) Sept. 23, 1705; priest, Sept. 23, 1710. Registrar of Peterborough Cathedral. Joint founder, with his friend Timothy Neve, of the Gentlemen's Society of Peterborough. Antiquary. Married Mrs Rebecca Wigmore, June 29, 1710. Edited in two folio volumes, Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores varii, 1723. Died July 20, 1740, aged 56. Buried in Peterborough Cathedral. M.I. where he is styled M.A. Father of John (1730). (D.N.B.)
  
  On slab Joseph Sparke not Sparkes. Confirms death date. Aetatis 57. Wife Rebecca d. 27 May 1747 aet. 56.

Appointment Events

• Minor canon : Peterborough cathedral minor canon/petty canon (02/09/1706 - 03/06/1741 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Appt	Sparks, Joseph	02/09/1706	Minor canon	Appointment	Peterborough cathedral/	View
  Libc	Sparkes, Joseph	16/06/1726	Minor canon		Peterborough cathedral/	View
  Vac	Sparke, Joseph	03/06/1741	Minor canon	Death	Peterborough cathedral/	View

• usher : Peterborough King's School (24/02/1708 - 22/06/1714 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Appt	Sparkes, Joseph	24/02/1708	usher	Appointment	Free School/	View
  Appt	Sparks, Joseph	22/06/1714	usher	Resignation	Peterborough Free School/	View
  Vac	Sparks, Joseph	29/06/1714	usher	resignation	Peterborough Free School/	View

• Rector : Northborough (18/06/1723 - 01/11/1740 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Appt	Sparke, Joseph	18/06/1723	Rector	Presentation	Northburgh/	View
  Vac	Sparke, Joseph	01/11/1740	Rector	Death	Northborough/	View

• epistoller : Peterborough cathedral, epistoller (16/06/1726 - 16/06/1726 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Libc	Sparkes, Joseph	16/06/1726	epistoller		Peterborough cathedral/	View

• Epistoler : Peterborough cathedral, epistoller (03/06/1741 - 03/06/1741 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Vac	Sparke, Joseph	03/06/1741	Epistoler	Death	Peterborough cathedral/	View

Death Events

• Death (01/11/1740)

  Name	Date	Cause	Type	Full Record
  Sparke, Joseph	01/11/1740	Death	Vac	View
  Sparke, Joseph	03/06/1741	Death	Vac	View
  Sparke, Joseph	03/06/1741	Death	Vac	View