Daniel was president of the New Zealand Wesleyan Conference in 1902. He had been Secretary of Conference in 1895, and 1897-1901.
Family
Daniel was born on 17 November 1851 at Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
The 1871 census return records Daniel as a milk carrier in Hackney, London.
He married Sarah Elizabeth Holder (1854-1939) in 1883 in New Zealand. Records identify three children.
- Charles Holder (1884-1885)
- Irene Jane (1886-1963) – married Herbert Dugdale Prichard in 1912
- Clarence Rainton (1892-1953) – a civil servant (1946)
Daniel died on 27 September 1928 at St Andrews Chyd, Howick, Auckland, New Zealand.
Circuits
- 1875 Tunbridge Wells
- 1876 Plymouth
- 1877 Brighton
- 1879 Chichester
- 1880 to New Zealand and joined Wesleyan Methodist ministry
- 1880 Milton
- 1881 Tapanui
- 1883 Mornington
- 1886 Hutt
- 1889 Woodend and Amberley
- 1891 St Albans
- 1893 Waimate
- 1896 Lyttleton
- 1899 Thames
- 1902 Masterton
- 1906 Dunn
- 1913 Fielding
- 1917 Hutt
- 1920 supernum
References
W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990
Who’s Who in New Zealand and the Western Pacific 1925
Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers
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Daniel Murray was the twin brother of my great-grandmother Jane Murray. They were born in circumstances of acute poverty in Cambridge and their mother died when they were 4 or 5 years old. Jane also moved to London as she was adopted by her mother’s cousin in Stoke Newington.
A photo of them in later life can be seen at https://1drv.ms/i/s!AptKNpzx1vJHgfAfCtDflJiE41YJyg?e=70X93h
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