Joseph Wickenden

Joseph Wickenden joined Maze Pond on 4 August 1799, having formerly been a member of the Baptist church at Portsmouth.  By 20 January 1800 he was signing the minutes at Maze Pond.  On 7 July 1800 he was elected a deacon, an office he held until 17 October 1813.  Wickenden eventually withdrew from the church on 20 September 1830.  He and his business partner, John Fenn, were linendrapers at 78 Cornhill.  They subscribed to the Baptist Missionary Society in 1800 and in 1804 (PA 2.204; 3.132, 137).  Wickenden also served as an associate member of the Particular Baptist Fund in 1804-05.  See Maze Pond Church Book, 1784-1821, Angus Library, Regent’s Park College, Oxford,  ff. 20, 184, 189, and 194; Theo Valentine, Concern for the Ministry: The Story of the Particular Baptist Fund 1717–1967 (Teddington: Particular Baptist Fund, 1967), 48; Universal British Directory, vol. 1, Part ii, p. 142.