Everitt, James Edward (1867-1943)

Family

James was born in late 1867 at Braintree, Essex, to parents William Everitt, a railway engine driver (1901), and Lavinia Mould.

The 1891 census records James as a theological student at the Manchester Theological College.

He married Harriet Serena Seymour (abt1868-1949) whilst in Australia. Records identify eight children.

• Edward Alfred (1896-1942) – a Methodist minister (1919)
• Malcolm (1897-1979) – a teacher (1943)
• Gwendolin (1899-1965) – married Andrew Christian Jenson in 1922
• Howard (1901-1955) – a farmer (1936)
• Clark (1903-1903)
• Clifford (1903-1983) – a labourer (1936)
• Rowland (1905-1972) – a minister of religion (1943)
• Eustace Curzon (b abt1909) – a wood worker (1936)

The family returned to Australia circa 1907.

James died on 2 March 1943 at Graceville, Queensland, Australia.

Circuits

• Hartley
• 1892 Ipswich
• 1893 Crow’s Nest, Australia
• 1895 Eidswold
• 1896 Redland
• 1897 Laidley
• 1900 Chinnor, Oxfordshire
• 1902 Cannock
• 1905 Dawley
• 1906 Mere

References

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

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers