Brittain, John (1797-1867)
Englesea Brook Museum ENBM 1990.21.30a
Family
John was born on 29 May 1797 at Birmingham, Warwickshire.
John married Rebecca Smith (1792-1837) on 13 December 1819 at All Saints, West Bromwich. They had six children
- Mary Ann (1819-1843) – married Josiah Howard
- Lydia (1823-1884) – married Charles Britland, a shoe blacking maker (1861) and, later, hawker (1871)
- Ebenezer (1825-1852) – a PM Minister
- Obadiah Oldham (1828-1889) -served as a PM minister between 1847 and 1870; he subsequently became a teacher and school board officer.
- John Wesley (1831-1832)
- Jabez Shrewsbury (1835-1900) – a railway porter; died in Union Workhouse, Ashton under Lyne
John married Betty Wrigley (1790-1840) on 6 June 1837 at St Mary, Oldham.
He married Charlotte Whittingham, nee Rushton (1801-1854) on 21 December 1842 at Manchester Cathedral.
He finally married Sarah Cheetham (1802-1883) on 24 April 1855 at Hope St Independent Chapel, Oldham.
John died on 22 September 1867 at Salford, Lancashire.
Circuits
- 1824 Loughborough
- 1825 Bradwell
- 1826 Manchester
- 1827 Oldham
- 1829 Darlaston
- 1831 Wrockwardinewood
- 1832 Shrewsbury
- 1834 Dudley
- 1836 Manchester
- 1837 Rochdale
- 1838 Stalybridge
- 1839 New Mills
- 1841 Silsden
- 1843 Oldham
- 1844 Douglas
- 1846 Warrington
- 1848 Stockport
- 1851 New Mills
- 1853 Preston Brook
- 1856 Bolton
- 1857 W Bromwich (S)
- 1859 Birmingham
- 1861 Brierley Hill
- 1863 W Bromwich
- 1865 Birmingham
- 1866 Manchester lll
References
Primitive Methodist Magazine 1847/385; 1854/457 (wife); 1868/165
PM Minutes 1868/9
W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990
Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers
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