Brining, John (1822-1877)

Primitive Methodist Magazine 1871

Early Years

John was born on 27 April 1822 at Penwardham, Lancashire. His father was William Brining, a PM Minister. John was converted in 1840. He soon became an exhorter and then spent two years as a local preacher.

Ministry

His obituary records that as a preacher he was methodical, lucid, eloquent, evangelical, scriptural; his silvery voice and appropriate gesture adding a charm to the excellent and well prepared matter from which time to time he gave forth.

As a pastor he was in his several stations generally esteemed and beloved by this flock, by very many of whom his removal will be painfully felt.

Family

John married Catherine Gillott (1820-1891) in the summer of 1848 at Sheffield, Yorkshire. Census returns identify seven children.

  • John Gillott (1850-1911) – a tea merchant
  • Catherine (1851-1910)
  • William (1853-1912) – a chartered accountant
  • Eleanor (1854-1936)
  • Henry (1856-1933) – a commercial traveller
  • Annie Maria (1860-1945) – married George Henry Hepworth, a bank clerk
  • Albert Edward (1862-1876)

John died on 25 July 1877 at Sheffield, Yorkshire.

Circuits

  • 1844 Newtown & Welshpool
  • 1845 Melton Mowbray
  • 1846 Sheffield
  • 1847 Nottingham S
  • 1848 Grantham
  • 1849 Rugby
  • 1850 Leicester
  • 1851 Borrowash
  • 1852 Derby
  • 1853 Newark
  • 1855 Bottisford
  • 1857 Belper
  • 1859 Ashby de la Zouch
  • 1862 Chesterfield
  • 1863 Clay Cross
  • 1864 Sheffield l
  • 1866 Sheffield ll
  • 1868 Belper
  • 1870 Hinckley
  • 1871 Sheffield (S)

References

Primitive Methodist Magazine 1871 (portrait); 1878/181

PM Minutes 1878/6

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

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers

 

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