Brittain, John (1797-1867)

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Primitive Methodist Magazine

Englesea Brook Museum ENBM 1990.21.30a

Family

John was born on 29 May 1797 at Birmingham, Warwickshire.

John married Rebecca Smith (1792-1837) on 13 December 1819 at All Saints, West Bromwich. They had six children

• Mary Ann (1819-1843) – married Josiah Howard
• Lydia (1823-1884) – married Charles Britland, a shoe blacking maker (1861) and, later, hawker (1871)
• Ebenezer (1825-1852) – a PM Minister
• Obadiah Oldham (1828-1889) -served as a PM minister between 1847 and 1870; he subsequently became a teacher and school board officer.
• John Wesley (1831-1832)
• Jabez Shrewsbury (1835-1900) – a railway porter; died in Union Workhouse, Ashton under Lyne

John married Betty Wrigley (1790-1840) on 6 June 1837 at St Mary, Oldham.

He married Charlotte Whittingham, nee Rushton (1801-1854) on 21 December 1842 at Manchester Cathedral.

He finally married Sarah Cheetham (1802-1883) on 24 April 1855 at Hope St Independent Chapel, Oldham.

John died on 22 September 1867 at Salford, Lancashire.

Circuits

• 1824 Loughborough
• 1825 Bradwell
• 1826 Manchester
• 1827 Oldham
• 1829 Darlaston
• 1831 Wrockwardinewood
• 1832 Shrewsbury
• 1834 Dudley
• 1836 Manchester
• 1837 Rochdale
• 1838 Stalybridge
• 1839 New Mills
• 1841 Silsden
• 1843 Oldham
• 1844 Douglas
• 1846 Warrington
• 1848 Stockport
• 1851 New Mills
• 1853 Preston Brook
• 1856 Bolton
• 1857 W Bromwich (S)
• 1859 Birmingham
• 1861 Brierley Hill
• 1863 W Bromwich
• 1865 Birmingham
• 1866 Manchester lll

References

Primitive Methodist Magazine 1847/385; 1854/457 (wife); 1868/165

PM Minutes 1868/9

W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers