Family
David was born on 15 January 1859 at Marlow, Buckinghamshire, to parents David Truss, a carpenter, and Eliza Coventry.
He married Evageline Home (1856-1937) in late 1880 in the Thame Registration District, Oxfordshire. Census returns identify seven children.
- Evelyn David Home (1881-1895)
- Seymour Bingham (1887-1910)
- Gilbert Athelstan (1889-1908)
- Cecil Coventry (1890-1929) – a clothing shop assistant (1911); a salesman in San Francisco (1920)
- Douglas Percival (b1891) – a clerk; emigrated to New Zealand in 1911
- Eveline Olga (1896-1986) – married Alvara Hartley, managing director of clay roofing tile company (1939), in 1920
- Charles Peter Allen (1900-1965)
David died on 6 June 1945 at Reading, Berkshire.
Circuits
- 1877 Oxford
- 1878 disappears
- 1879 Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire – Congregational minister
- 1882 Wendover
- 1884 Newnham, Gloucestershire
- 1888 Bristol, Anvil Street
- 1892 New Tabernacle, London
- 1894 Cam, Gloucestershire
- 1905 Hartlepool
- 1912 Wakefield, John St
- 1920-1925 Wotton-under-Edge. Tabernacle, Gloucestershire
- 1942 Dursley, Gloucestershire
References
W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990
Surman Index id:28021
Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers
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