Robson, William John (b1870)

Family

William was born abt1870 at Jarrow, Co. Durham, to parents John Atkinson Robson, an iron founder (1891), and Mary Elizabeth Winlow.

The 1891 census return records William as a book-keeper’s clerk.

He married Jane Learmouth (b1868) in early 1896 at Sunderland, Co. Durham. Census returns and birth records  identify seven children.

• Malcolm Learmouth (1895-1991)  – Education Department clerk in Halifax (1939)
• Elizabeth Mary (b1899)                     
• Nora (b1900)   
• Hilda (1905-1905)                                 
• William John (b abt1906)                        
• Henry Price (1907-1980)                          
• Frederick Charles (1908-1982) – a textile dyer (forman) (1939)      

I have not been able to identify William records post 1911.         

Circuits

• 1894 Brampton
• 1898 Biggleswade
• 1900 Clapton
• 1902 Leicester
• 1904 Keighley
• 1909 Bingley
• 1913 Halifax
• 1917 Belper
• 1920 ceased

References

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

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers