Weaver, Lewis (1837-1914)

Family

Lewis was born in 1837 at Bishops Castle, Shropshire, to mother Mary, a washer woman (1841).

Census returns identify the following occupations for Lewis.

• 1851 waggoner
• 1861 minister, Primitive Methodist
• 1871 Independent minister
• 1881 Independent minister
• 1891 Congregational minister
• 1901 Congregational minister
• 1911 retired Congregational minister

He married Martha Morgan (1840-1908) in late 1864 in the Atcham Registration District, Shropshire. Census returns identify six children.

• Walter Morgan (1865-1920) – a butcher (1891)
• Alexander Frederick (1866-1939) – a railway goods foreman (1901)
• Lucy Anne (b1867)
• Edith Mary (1870-1954)
• Rebecca May (1871-1921) – a dressmaker (1891); married William Hatton, a loco engine driver at gas works (1911), in 1895
• Constance Alice (b1873)

He married Jane Jones (b abt1859) in early 1909 at Liverpool, Liverpool.

Lewis died on 14 November 1914 at Walker Fold, Chaigley, Lancashire.

Circuits

• 1860 Ludlow
• 1861 Oswestry
• 1862 Tunstall
• 1863 Hadnall
• 1865 W Bromwich
• 1867 Wrockwardinewood
• 1869 disappears
• 1869 Ruyton-Xl-Towns, Shropshire – Congregational minister
• 1869 Dovaston, Shropshire
• 1875 Wilcot, Wiltshire
• 1883 Weirbrook, Shropshire
• 1890-1904 Rice Lane, Walton, Liverpool

References

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

Surman Index id: 28795

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers