Mackill, Thomas (1819-1883)
Early years
Thomas was born in 1819. He spent his early life at Alverly, Shropshire. PM missionaries formed a society in the village and Thomas was converted soon afterwards. He became a local preacher. Thomas moved to Brierley Hill and two years later was called into ministry by the Ipswich circuit.
Ministry
His obituary records; ‘Our brother was a good man, a true friend, a conscientious colleague, and many will be the crown of his rejoicing in the day of the Lord.’
Family
Thomas married Charlotte Snarsdell (1819-1882) from Little Dunham, Norfolk in the spring of 1847. Records identify three children.
- Thomas Henry (1850-1904) – a draper
- Frederick Charles (1852-1884)
- James (1855-1883) – a draper
Thomas died on 7 October 1883 at Yarmouth.
Circuits
- 1841 Ipswich
- 1842 Swaffham
- 1844 Fakenham
- 1845 Peterborough
- 1847 Brandon
- 1849 Docking
- 1851 Wangford
- 1853 Aylsham
- 1855 Diss
- 1857 Thetford
- 1859 Wisbech
- 1861 Yarmouth
- 1863 Fakenham
- 1865 Downham
- 1867 Rockland
- 1869 Ely
- 1871 N Walsham
- 1874 E Dereham
- 1876 Docking
- 1878 Yarmouth (S)
References
Primitive Methodist Magazine 1870 (portrait); 1883/369 (Charlotte); 1884/243
PM Minutes 1884/6
W Leary,Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits , 1990
Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers
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While analysing the 1851 census at Docking, Norfolk I came across details of Thomas Mackill (1819-1883) and his family. In Q2 1847 he had married Charlotte Snarsdell from Little Dunham in the District of Mitford, Norfolk. In 1851 he was working as a Primitive Methodist Minister in Docking and living with his wife and young child Thomas Henry Mackill, born 1850 at Docking.
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