Family
Jesse was born on 9 September 1858 at Leeds, Yorkshire, to parents Jabez Wilson, a coal miner (1861), and Mary Musgrave. He was baptised on 22 December 1861 at St Peter, Leeds.
The 1939 Register describes Jesse as a retired minister.
He married Mary Elizabeth Barber (1856-1922) in the summer of 1884 at Leeds, Yorkshire Census returns identify five children.
- Jesse Ernest (1886-1927) – a journalist (1911)
- Lily Gertrude (b1888)
- Evelyn Mabel (1889-1892)
- Horace Victor (1891-1892)
- Gwendoline Olive (1893-1942) – married John Watts, a general labourer (1939), in 1924
Jesse died in early 1945 at Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
Circuits
- 1880 St Austell
- 1882 St Blazey
- 1883 Swansea
- 1884 Monmouth
- 1885 Brynmawr
- 1889 Hereford
- 1890 Pontypool
- 1894 Cardiff II
- 1897 Chesterfield II
- 1902 Mexborough
- 1906 Berkhamstead
- 1908 Leytonstone
- 1909 Dent
- 1911 supernum
- 1912 Swaffham
- 1916 Horncastle
- 1918 ceased
References
W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990
Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers
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