Newman, Henry (b1837)

Family

Henry was born abt1837 at Stafford, Staffordshire, to parents John, a cordwainer, and Jane.

Census returns identify the following occupations for Henry.

• 1851 cordwainer
• 1861 PM minister
• 1871 provision dealer in Crewe
• 1881 cheese factor
• 1891 general clerk in Crewe, Cheshire
• 1901 book-keeper at Barry, Glamorgan

He married Eliza Pointon (abt1827-1895) in the summer of 1857 in the Nantwich Registration District, Cheshire. Census returns identify two children.

• Alfred Pointon (1858-1927) – a chemist and sub-postmaster (1891)                
• Francis Henry (1864-1942) – a commercial traveller for a druggist (1901)

He married Fanny (b abt1847 in Liverpool) – I have not been able to identify an online marriage record.

I have not been able to identify Henry’s death record.

Circuits

• 1855 Whitchurch
• 1856 Burland
• 1857 Oswestry
• 1859 Dudley
• 1861 Burland
• 1863 Nantwich
• 1865 Nantwich (S)
• 1869 disappears

References

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

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers