Family
Jacob was born on 7 September 1816 at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to parents Jacob, a sailor, and Elizabeth. He was baptised on 11 September 1816 at St Nicholas, Yarmouth.
Jacob married Hannah Herod (1822-1888) in the summer of 1843 in the Spalding Registration District, Lincolnshire. Census returns identify eight children.
- George Herod (1844-1877
- Alfred Herod (b1846) – a wharfinger (1880)
- Hephzibah Herod (1848-1944) – a schoolteacher; married Carl LaGrange Rood
- Edwin Herod (1850-1936) – a lawyer (1900)
- Walter Herod (1852-1942) – a clergyman (1900)
- Herbert Herod (1854-1917) – a liveryman (1900)
- Phoebe Jane (1859-1930) – married Frank Howard Clark
- Laura Elizabeth (1862-1927) – married Richard Glaister in 1884
Hannah and children arrived in USA in February 1857.
The US 1860 census, finds Jacob as a Protestant Minister in Milton, Saratoga, New York. He died on 9 July 1898 at Ithaca, Gratiot, Michigan, USA.
Circuits
- 1840 Donington
- 1842 Fulbeck
- 1843 Lincoln
- 1844 Belper
- 1845 Winster
- 1846 Kniveton
- 1847 Hull
- 1848 Barton on Humber
- 1850 Market Rasen
- 1852 Donoughmore
- 1853 Donoughmore & Portadown
- 1854 Lisburn
- 1855 disappears
References
W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990
Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers
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