Rundle, Richard (1839-1929

Family

Richard was born in 1929 at Tydwardreath, nr. St Blazey, Cornwall, to parents William, a schoolmaster (1841), and Mary Ann. He was baptised on 4 July 1839 at St. Blazey.

Before entering the ministry Richard worked the land.

After leaving the ministry Richard became a home heating appliance manufacturer at Shipley, Yorkshire.

He married Ann(ie) Spring (1844-1901) in the summer of 1869 in the Hemsworth Registration District, Yorkshire. Census returns and birth records identify eight children.

• William Charles (1870-1905) – a heating engineer (1891)
• Mary Jane (1872-1901)
• John Henry (1873-1948) – a plumber (1901)
• Annie Spink (1875-1898) – a pupil teacher (1891)
• Eleanor (1877-1956) – assistant teacher (1911)
• Elizabeth (1879-1922)
• Richard Wellington (1883-1884)
• Louisa Grace (1885-1905)

Richard died on 25 October 1921 at idle, Yorkshire.

Circuits

• 1865 Middleham
• 1866 Wakefield
• 1867 Pontefract
• 1868 Dewsbury
• 1869 Shipley
• 1871 disappears

References

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

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers