Winstanley, Elizabeth (nee Watkins) (1854-1915)

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Transcription of obituary published in the Primitive Methodist Magazine by J.B.

The reaper whose harvest lasts all the year round entered the home of Mr. E.D. Winstanley, society steward for a quarter of a century of the Jubilee Drive Church, Liverpool III. Circuit, and on December 10th bore away the spirit of Mrs. Winstanley, at the age of sixty-one years. 

Born at Bradford, Yorkshire, she in early life removed to Liverpool, and began her fifty years’ membership with Boundary Street Church. Her abiding interest in foreign missions was quickened through having personally known Captain Robinson and Ship’s-carpenter Hands, our pioneer missionaries to Fernando Poo. She was a good woman, devoid of envy or jealousy, generous to a degree, and given to hospitality. The Church has lost a loyal member and worker, her two children an affectionate mother, and the home a choice spirit. 

The funeral was conducted by the circuit ministers, Revs. J.W. Waddell and A. Hird, and Rev. James Burton preached the memorial sermon.

Family

Elizabeth was born in late1854 at Bradford, Yorkshire, to parents Edward Watkins, a grocer (1871) and Ann Hudson.

She married Edward David Winstanley (1854-1929), a printer & stationer (1901), in early 1878 in the West Derby Registration District, Lancashire.

• Alfred Edward (1878-1950) – a printer & stationer’s clerk (1911)
• Edith Ann (1880-1962)

Elizabeth died on 10 December 1915 at Liverpool, Lancashire.

References

Primitive Methodist Magazine 1916/245

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