Rev James Mather 
James was born in 1773 in Leigh.1 Birth Notes
A possible birth:
Name: James Mather Or Greshon
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 25 Oct 1774
Baptism Date: 17 Dec 1774
Baptism Place: Bank Street Unitarian OR Presbyterian,Bolton Le Moors,Lancashire,England
Father: William Greshon
Mother: Elisabeth Mather
FHL Film Number: 0560877 (RG4 64, 2004)
or
Name: James Mather
Event Type: Baptism
Baptism Date: 7 Nov 1773
Baptism Place: Bolton-le-Moors, St Peter, Lancashire, England
Parish as it Appears: Bolton Church
Father: Thos Mather
Mother: Betty Mather
Reference Number: L243/1/2/1
Item Number: 3
Archive Roll: 854
Abode: L.L. (Little Leaver)
The book "Chergymen of England and Scotland" have James born in Leigh in 1773. There is a baptism of "James son of James Mather of Westleigh" on 12 April 1772, which is the closest. Also on 18th Jan 1772 there is James son of Tho's Mather of Atherton baptised at Leigh.
Death Notes
Death reported as 24 and 29 May
Rev James Mather
BIRTH 1775
DEATH 1840 (aged 64-65)
BURIAL Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, London Borough of Hackney, Greater London, England
PLOT White marble sarcofagus, path L
Name: James Mather
Registration Year: 1840
Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
Registration district: Clerkenwell
Inferred County: London
Volume: 3
Page: 55
General Notes
Rev. James Mather was born in Leigh, Lancashire in 1773 and died in London 29 May 1840. His father died when he was two years old, and his mother when he was 16. He went to Warrington to learn the trade of a weaver, and later converted and preached after his education.
James was educated and became a minister at New Windsor, Salford, Manchester for three years, and then at Howard Street Chapel, Sheffield for 20 years. Between 1805 and 1806 he performed 9 baptisms.
Later he went to Birmingham and then at the upper Chapel, Islington, London. His two sons Joseph and Robert Cotton were also ministers.
Congregational minister. He was the first person to be buried in Stoke Newington, Hackney cemetery.
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Connections & Relationships
James and James (Jesse) Mather distrusted each other.
Details of James' family with Ann Speakman
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