Carthew, Thomas Henry (1856-1896)

Life

Thomas Henry Carthew was born on 22nd May 1856 in Bodminland, St. Ive, Cornwall to Thomas and Jane. His father was a miner. He was baptised at Cheriton Cross Bible Christian chapel on 20th July 1856.

Like many Cornish miners his father moved to County Durham, becoming a coal miner in Low Moorsley. Thomas Henry was converted there, becoming a Local Preacher in 1874. In the 1871 Census he was recorded as working as a coal miner.

He entered the Bible Christian ministry in 1876, serving in four circuits before transferring to the United Methodist Free Churches ministry in 1880.

In 1883 he was sent to the West African mission, in Sierra Leone, before moving to East Africa in 1887 as General Superintendent.

Thomas Henry Carthew died 27 November 1896, at Ribe in Kenya.

Circuits

•  Bible Christian
  
• 1876  Shebbear College
• 1877  Newport and Tyde
• 1878  Mevagissey
• 1879  Chesterfield
• United Methodist Free Churches
•  1880  Oxford (Woodstock)
• 1883   Freetown North, Sierra Leone
• 1887   Jomvu, East Africa
• 1891   Ribe, East Africa

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

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers