Brittain, Obadiah Oldham (1828-1889)
Family
Obadiah was born on 6 July 1828 at Oldham, Lancashire, to parents John Brittain, a PM minister , and Rebecca Smith.
After leaving the ministry Obadiah became a teacher and school board officer.
He married Martha Thomas (1830-1902) in the spring of 1851 at Burton on Trent, Staffordshire. Census returns identify nine children.
- John Thomas (abt1852-1922) – a printer (1911)
- Ebenezer (1853-1922) – a foreman compositor (1911)
- Jane Elizabeth (abt1855-1915) – a dressmaker (1891)
- Harriet Rebecca (1857-1896) – married Arthur Ernest Holden, a school master, in 1882
- Lydia (1859-1937) – a dressmaker (1911)
- Martha Hannah (1861-1886) – married Ralph Bates in 1885
- Obadiah Oldham (1863-1932) – a printer’s manager (1911)
- Kate Emma (b1865) – a book & shoe shop-woman (1891)
- Ezra Jabez (abt1870-1902) – a rent & debt collector (1891); butcher’s book-keeper and cashier (1901)
Obadiah died on 29 April 1889 at Oldham, Lancashire.
Circuits
- 1847 Bradwell
- 1848 Horncastle
- 1849 Burton on Trent
- 1850 Belper
- 1851 Bury St Edmunds
- 1853 Swaffham
- 1857 Lynn
- 1859 Yarmouth
- 1861 Fakenham
- 1863 Colchester
- 1865 Chelmsford
- 1868 Spalding & Holbeach
- 1870 disappears
References
W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990
Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers
Note: Most records spell the surname with one ’t’.
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