Leggate, Jonathan William (1886-1966)

Family

Jonathan was born on 29 May 1886 at Watton, Norfolk, to parents John William Flood  Leggate, a coal merchant, and Louise Hancock.

Before entering the ministry, Jonathan was a coach builder’s apprentice (1901).

The family emigrated to USA in 1916 where Jonathan was a Methodist minister.

He married Edith Wood (b abt1885) in late 1915 in the Fylde Registration District, Lancashire. Census returns identify two children.

• Millicent L L (b1916) – a stenographer (1940)
• Thomas William (1920-2011) – in the US Navy at the time of marriage in 1942

Jonathan died on 8 April 1966 at Vinton, Ranoke County, Virginia. 

Circuits

• Hartley
• 1913 Newton & Hyde
• 1916 ceased

References

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

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers

Note: Most records have the surname as Leggett.