Bottomley, William Rothwell (b1846)

Family

William was born in the spring of 1846 at Halifax, Yorkshire, to mother Sarah A Bottomley, nee Townend.

Census returns identify the following occupations for William after he left the ministry.

• 1881 master boiler & pipe coverer & mill furnisher employing 12 boys
• 1891 insurance agent
• 1901 tube merchant – in Scotland

He married Frances Anne Goodie Shaw (b1857) in early 1874 in the Chorlton Registration District, Lancashire.

I have not been able to identify a death record online. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Circuits

• 1867 Manchester II
• 1868 Knowlwood
• 1969 Chester
• 1870 Bury
• 1872 Oldham I
• 1874 Birkenhead
• 1877 Preston Brook
• 1879 Bradford I
• 1880 disappears

References

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

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers