Osmond, Stephen (1818-1881)

A transcription of the obituary published in the Primitive Methodist Magazine by Thomas Cummin is attached.

Family

Stephen was born on 10 February 1818 at Whitchurch, Hampshire, to parents Richard, a farmer (1841), and Alice.

He married Jane Culverhouse, nee Twine (1812-1868) on 18 September 1855 at Winchester, Hampshire.

He married Caroline Amelia Higgs (abt1822-1905) in the spring of 1869 in the Newbury Registration District, Berkshire.

Stephen died on 16 January 1881 at Thatcham, Berkshire. He was buried on 25 January 1881.

Circuits

• 1846 Reading
• 1847 disappears
• 1850 Brinkworth
• 1853 Newbury
• 1855 Winchester
• 1857 Aylesbury
• 1859 disappears

References

Primitive Methodist Magazine 1884/116

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

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers

Note: Leary identifies an S Osmond stationed at Reading in1847 and Stephen Osmond stationed from 1850. I think it likely that they are the same person.