Family
Charles was born in 1836 at Wickersley, Yorkshire, to parents Richard Willis, a quarry mason (1851), and Margaret Simpson.
Before entering the ministry Charles was an apprentice stone mason (1851).
He married Sarah Ann Clark (1836-1916) in the summer of 1862 in West London. Census returns identify six children.
- Walter Richard Charles (1863-1935) – a book-keeper (1911)
- Matilda Sarah Margaret (1864-1944) – married Thomas Telfer Brown, a farmer (1901)
- Josephine E (b abt1866)
- Castolar C (b abt1871) – a farmer (1921)
- Sylvia Minnie S (b abt1872) – married George J Mitchell, a railway agent (1901)
- Alfred Ernest John (1874-1942) – a station agent (1901)
Charles died on 8 February 1916 at Saskatchewan, Canada
Circuits
- 1859 Liskeard
- 1860 Gloucester
- 1861 London II
- 1862 Bagshot
- 1866 Belfast
- 1867 Marlborough
- 1869 Hastings
- 1870 Portland – Canada
- 1873 Stratford
- 1876 Wingham
- 1877 Bowral
- 1878 Laskey
- 1879 Aurora
- 1880 Woodstock
- 1882 disappears
References
W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990
Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers
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