Ellis, Alwyn John (1873-1949)

Obituary from Minutes of the Methodist Conference

Born in Norfolk in 1873, he was educated at King’s Lynn and Owens College, Manchester, and at the School of Tropical Diseases.

He was accepted into the Ministry of the United Methodist Free Church in 1897.

For a short period he was assistant at Burnley to the Rev. Joseph Hocking, the novelist.

In 1898 he went to the West Indies. Three years were spent in Jamaica, where he held the office of Missionary Inspector of Schools.

The next seven years were spent at Bocas-del-Toro. He could tell some wonderful stories of strange and thrilling experiences in the Panama Revolution.

For a time he ministered to the Chirqui Indians, and later visited Chile and Costa Rica. Once, off the coast of South America, he suffered shipwreck, and during a rebellion was imprisoned for a month.

He returned to this country in 1905. He was always keenly interested in hospital work, and for a time acted as chaplain to the West Riding Hospital Board.

He became a Supernumerary in 1941, but he continued to preach to within a fortnight before his death.

He passed away on the 27th July 1949, after a brief illness, in the seventy-sixth year of his life and the fifty-fourth of his ministry.

©Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes 1950

Family

Alwyn was born in Terrington St. Clements, Norfolk, on 11th January 1873, to John Ellis, a grocer, draper and tea dealer, and his wife Jane. Before going to Owens Collge he was a grocery assistant and photographer (1891)

He married Mabel Annie Wade (1883-) during the 2nd quarter of 1908 in Huddersfield.. They had a daughter

• Doris May (1909-)

Alwyn  died on 27th July 1949 in Dewsbury.

Circuits

• 1896 Burnley
• 1898 St. Anns, Jamaica
• 1901  Bocas del Toro, Panama (received into Full Connexion)
• 1905 Norwich (Supernumerary)
• 1906 Huddersfield I (Crosland Moor)
• 1909 Hull Campbell  Street
• 1912  Leeds West
• 1916  Stockport
• 1922  Wakefield
• 1928  Farsley Pudsey and Yeadon
• 1935  Dewsbury
• 1941   Dewsbury (supernumerary)

References

Oliver A Beckerlegge, United Methodist ministers and their circuits: Being an arrangement in alphabetical order of the stations of ministers of the Methodist New … and the United Methodist Church, 1797-1932

Ministers and probationers of the Methodist Church: formerly Wesleyan, Primitive and United Methodist ; with their appointments in chronological and alphabetical order … revised to the conference of 1936

Missionary Echo of the United Methodist Free Churches 1898

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers

Minutes of the Methodist Conference 1950 p121