Weatherill, Thomas (1848-1929)

Family

Thomas was born in the spring of 1848 at Whitby, Yorkshire, to parents Thomas Weatherill, a cow-keeper (1861), and Sarah Cook. His brother, William, was also a PM minister, who moved to Canada.

He married Frances Howgate (abt1854-1926) in the summer of 1878 at Whitby, Yorkshire. Records identify ten children.

• William Arthur (1879-1963
• Mabel (1881-
• Elvira (1883-1944) – married William Edgar Sleep, a Methodist Home Missionary (1919), in 1909; died in New Zealand
• Edna (b1884) – not identified after birth record
• Mark Edward (b abt1884) – identified on passenger list travelling to Australia in 1885
• Violet Maud (1885-1895)
• Edna Greta (1887-1888)
• Ewart Maurice (1889-1953) – a schoolmaster (1930)
• Joseph Cook (1889-1973)
• Ivy Whitby Cecelia Pretoria (b1900) – died between 1926 and 1930
• Thomas died on 26 October 1929 at Paynham, South Australia.

Circuits

• 1874 N Sunderland
• 1876 Carlisle
• 1878 Brompton
• 1881 N Sunderland
• 1883 Barnard castle
• 1885 to Australia
• 1885 New Olenda
• 1886 Mount barker
• 1888 Moonta
• 1891 Mallala
• 1896 Gawler
• 1897 Dawson
• 1898 Yongola
• 1899 disappears

References

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

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers