Family
Benjamin was born on 15 December 1836 at Dudley, Worcestershire, to parents William Salt, a mine agent (1851, and Maria Davies. He was baptised on 14 February 1837 at Round Oak PM Chapel, Brierley Hill, Staffordshire.
Census returns identify the following occupations for Benjamin.
- 1851 machine keeper.
- 1871 PM minister
- 1881 grocer & baker
- 1891 grocer & baker
- 1901 retired grocer
He married Mary Parry (1841-1904) in the summer of 1865 in the Whitchurch Registration District, Shropshire. Census returns identify four children.
- Herbert Parry (1867-1874)
- John Benjamin (1869-1941) – a grocer, baker & sub-postmaster (1911)
- Aquila Joseph (abt1873-1936) – a baker & grocer (1911)
- Mary Ellen (1875-1884)
Benjamin died on 18 May 1903 at Winsford, Cheshire.
Circuits
- 1860 Bilston
- 1861 Tunstall
- 1862 Whitchurch
- 1864 Congleton
- 1865 Oswestry
- 1866 Prees Green
- 1868 Primrose Bank
- 1870 Worcester
- 1871 Winsford
- 1874 Market Drayton
- 1877 disappears
References
W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990
Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers
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