Harris, William (1843-1911)

Family

William was born on 14 August 1843 at Ampney Crucis, Circencester, Gloucestershire, to parents Charles Harris, a farmer’s carter (1851), and Harriet Wellfries.

He married Rosanna Wood (b1852) in late 1873 at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Census returns identify four children.

• Annie (b1877)
• William Albert (b1879)
• Alice Maud (b abt1882)
• Daisy (b1885)

William died on 20 May 1911 at Saugus, Massachusetts.

Circuits

• 1869 Falmouth & Truro
• 1871 Plymouth
• 1873 Gloucester
• 1874 disappears
• 1875 Newent, Gloucestershire – Congregational minister
• 1888 Tewkesbury
• 1890 Uley
• 1897 Truro, Massachussetts, USA
• 1900 Warwick, Mass
• 1905 Woods Hole, Mass
• 1909 Saugas, Mass

References

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

Surman Index id: 13608

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers