Russen, Arthur Leonard (1902-1958)

Family

Arthur was born on 14 June 1902 at Norwich, Norfolk, to parents James, a bootmaker (1911), and Alice May.

Arthur became a Church of England clergyman after leaving the Methodist ministry.

He married Laura Josephine Linney (1907-1999) in the summer of 1930 in the Middlesbrough Registration District, Yorkshire. Birth records identify five children.

• Margaret (b1931) – married Thomas Brown in 1952
• John (b1935)
• Barbara (b1938) – married Brian R Poulter in 1961
• Michael (1942-1999)
• Mary (b1950) – married Jimmy A Secker in 1969

Arthur died on 28 November 1958 at East Dereham, Norfolk. 

Circuits

• 1924 Lowestoft
• 1925 Hartley
• 1928 London Mission SE
• 1930 London Mission E
• 1933 W Monmouth Mission
• 1935 Stanley
• 1943 resigned

References

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

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers