John Affleck Caldow

John was born in 1839 to James Caldow and Sarah Affleck

He was a perpetual curate, and later a vicar, where he served rural communities around Carlisle in North West England such as Wetheril, Skirwith and Torpenhow. See map.

A perpetual curate was a clergyman of the Church of England officiating as parish priest in a small or sparsely peopled parish or district which was not served by a rector or vicar and to which he had been nominated by the impropriator and licensed, usually, by the bishop. Perpetual curates are distinguished from other forms of curacy, such as stipendiary curates and assistant curates who were generally assistants to parish priest. Perpetual curates did not undergo institution or induction and did not receive the temporalities. Unlike rectors and vicars their income did not derive from the possession of tithes but from the diocese.