This is a biography for Thomas and Fanny Kendall and their family, who settled in Ashby Lincolnshire [now part of Scunthorpe] n820. Thomas and Fanny raised eleven children to adulthood, ten sons and a daughter. Six of the ten sons entered the Primitive Methodist Ministry. They lived at a time of great Religious, Political, Industrial and Social change. This is an attempt to draw together their individual stories and show how they left their mark upon history.