Masterman, Emmanuel (1832-1916)

Emmanuel was President of the Australian Conference in 1891.

Family

Emmanuel was born in 1832 at Stickland Dorset, to parents Uriah, who worked the land, and Priscilla. He was baptised on 16 December 1832 at Winterborne-Stickland, Dorset.

Before entering the ministry, Emmanuel worked as a shepherd (1851).

He married Rhoda Laurie Elford (1834-1874) in the spring of 1863 in the Bethnal Green Registration District, London. Birth records identify seven children.

• Laurie Beatrice (1865-1936) – married David Miller Mack in 1885
• Alice Maud (1866-1867)
• Ella Blanchetta (1866-1867)
• Maud Mary (1868-1868)
• Marmaduke Emmanuel (1870-1947)
• Levie Charles Lionel (1871-1872)
• Rhoda Ann Josephine (1874-1875)

He married Alice Agnes Campbell (1861-1936) in 1890 at Refern, New South Wales.

Emmanuel died on 21 June 1916 at Epping, New South Wales, Australia.

Circuits

• 1858 Reading
• 1859 Saffron Walden
• 1862 Tottenham
• 1864 Chalfont St Giles
• 1868 Brighton
• 1871 Maldon
• 1872 Wallaroo – Australia
• 1875 Adelaide N
• 1878 Mt Gambier
• 1882 Adelaide
• 1885 Rosewater
• 1886 Balmain
• 1887 Newtown
• 1890 Parramatta
• 1892 Waterloo
• 1896 Liverpool
• 1896 Waterloo
• 1897 Sydney (Sup)

References

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

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers