Thomas John Barnardo
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Thomas John Barnardo was an Irish, Christian philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor and deprived children. From the foundation of the first Barnardo's home in 1867 to the date of Ba
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Group portrait of children outside a Barnardo home
Plymouth Brethren
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The Plymouth Brethren or Assemblies of Brethren are a low church and Nonconformist Christian movement, the history of which can be traced back to Dublin, Ireland, in the mid to late 1820s, where it or
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…childbirth) of John Michaelis Barnardo, a furrier who was of Sephardic Jewish descent, and his second wife, Abigail, an English woman and member of the Plymouth Brethren. Sometime before his first marriage in 1827 to Elizabeth O'Brien, John Michaelis emigrated from Prussia via Hamburg to Dublin, where he established a…
A Plymouth Brethren meeting hall and congregation
A Plymouth Brethren chapel in Broadbridge Heath, West Sussex, England