My Great Great Grandfather is Samuel Newton. He died age 48, two years after his wife (Mary Ann Lett), in Redditch, Worcestershire leaving 9 children (of 11 children, twins already deceased). His youngest child was just three and the oldest 20. He was a minister at the United Methodist Free Church (which later became the Mount Pleasant Methodist Church) at the time of his death in 1879. I believe that he had moved from Yorkshire three years before this.
He became a minister aged 22 in 1852. From the birth places of his children/marriage he worked in the following places: 1858 – 1861 Worcester 1862 – 1864 Newcastle-under-Lyme 1866 Hartlepool 1868 Monkwearmouth, Sunderland 1870 – 1871 West Hartlepool 1871 Stranton, West Hartlepool (census Minister Lynn Street Chapel) 1873 Leeds 1875 – death 1879 Redditch, Worcestershire.
I would like to find out more information about him if I can.
Newton, Samuel (1830-1879)
Will of the Rev. Samuel Newton
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The entry for Samuel Newton in “United Methodist ministers and their circuits” tells us:
He was born in Barnsley in 1831 and died in Redditch in 1879.
There is an obituary on page 17 of The Minutes of the United Methodist Free Churches Conference of 1879.
He started off as a minister of the Wesleyan Methodist Association, before they became the UMFC in 1857. He was stationed as follows:
1852 Redruth
1853 Liskeard
1854 Worcester
1856 Cheltenham
1857 Bath
1860 Newcastle under Lyme
1864 Heywood
1866 North Sunderland
1869 West Hartlepool
1872 Birstall
1874 Redditch
1877 Redditch (Sup.)
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