Harrison, John (abt1819-1904)

Family

John was born abt1819 in Shropshire.

He married Ann Maria Cornes (nee Willett) (abt1812-1902) in early 1849 in the Nantwich Registration District. Census returns identify four children.

• Anne Maria (b1850)
• John William (1852-1916) – a farmer (1880)
• Apphia Willett (1854-1928) – married Charles Matthew Stephens, a farmer, in 1877
• Amelia Jane (b1857)

John died in 1904 at Tulare, Spink, South Dakota. His headstone records him as Rev.John Harrison.

Circuits

• 1843 Burland
• 1846 Ramsor
• 1848 Leintwardine
• 1850 Bishop’s Castle
• 1852 Whitchurch
• 1855 Leintwardine
• 1856 under Gen Com
• 1857 disappears
• 1860 A Methodist Minister in Westmorland, Oneida, New York, USA
• 1870 and later census returns record John as a farmer

References

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

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers