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
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