Family
Jonathan was born on 13 September 1857 at Clifton, Brighouse, Yorkshire, to parents Benjamin, a cane maker, and Harriett. He was baptised on 10 April 1859 at St Martin, Brighouse.
Before entering the ministry he was a silk dresser (1871).
The family emigrated to USA in 1897 and in 1910 were living at Jefferson, Kentucky. Jonathan became a Baptist minister.
Jonathan married Mary Ann Pease (1857-1920) in the summer of 1881 at Halifax, Yorkshire. Census returns identify seven children.
- John Henry Rushworth (1882-1965) – an office clerk (1900)
- Charles Cecil (1884-1974) – a book-keeper (1920)
- William Arnold (1888-1952) – a carpenter (1920)
- James Ewart (1890-1975) – a baptist minister (1917)
- Hubert Reginald (b1892) – a tile hand (1917)
- Florence Gertrude (1894-1980) – a chiropodist; married Wallace M Coulson, a dentist
- Arthur Clarence (1899-1918)
Circuits
- 1877 Castleford
- 1880 Middleham
- 1881 Malton
- 1883 Huddersfield
- 1885 Pickering
- 1889 Filey
- 1890 Burnley I
- 1893 Blackheath & Quinton
- 1895 disappears
References
W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990
Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers
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