Sellix, Joseph (1841-1917)

Family

Joseph was born on 18 June 1841 at Abbots Ann, Hampshire, to parents William, who worked the land, and Blandina.

Census returns identify the following occupations for Joseph.

• 1861 painter & glazier
• 1871 Independent minister
• 1881 Independent minister
• 1891 Congregational minister
• 1901 Congregational minister
• 1911 Congregational minister retired

He married Mary Hannah (1847-1933) in late 1867 in the St Thomas Registration District, Devon. Census returns identify three children.

• Francis Joseph (1868-1942) – a journalist (1911)      Saffron Walden
• Ernest (1873-1889)
• Sydney Alfred (1874-1903) – a bookseller’s assistant (1891)

Joseph died on 22 February 1917 at Newbury, Berkshire.

Circuits

• 1863 Exeter & Exmouth
• 1864 Plymouth
• 1866 Canterbury
• 1868 Peterborough
• 1869 Saffron Walden
• 1870 disappears
• 1870-1890 Newton Abbot – Congregational minister
• 1890-1906 Leamington Spa, Spencer St

References

Surman Index id: 24375

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

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers

Note: The birth record is in the surname Sellex. Later records spell the surname Sellicks.