Purvis, Francis (1838-1920)

Family

Francis was born in the spring of 1838 at Hexham, Northumberland, to parents Francis, a millwright, and Hannah.

Census returns identify the following occupations for Francis.

• 1861 engine builder
• 1871 PM minister
• 1881 bookseller and stationer employing one boy
• 1891 stationer and letter receiver for school board
• 1901 clerk to Benwell School Board
• 1911 retired and pensioned school board clerk

He married Winifred Hanson (1836-1900) in the summer of 1866 in the Wigton Registration District, Cumberland.

He married Barbara Elizabeth Watson (1858-1922) – in late 1902 at Tynemouth, Northumberland.

Francis died in the spring of 1920 at Tynemouth, Northumberland.

Circuits

• 1862 N Shields
• 1863 Shotley Bridge
• 1864 Alston
• 1865 Maryport
• 1867 Hetton
• 1869 Barnard Castle
• 1872 St Helens Auckland
• 1873 Berwick
• 1876 Stokesley
• 1878 disappears

References

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

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers