Hyams, Abraham (1822-1880)

Abraham Hyams was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on 16th November 1820, to Marcus Hyams of the Ashkenazi Congregation of Jews. He converted to Christianity in his teens.

He married Eliza Catherine Hayes  (1819-1894) on 11th April 1842 at the Wesleyan association chapel in Kingston, Jamaica.

Abraham ceases to be listed by the United Methodist Free Churches as a minister in 1875. His death certificate describes him as a Coffee planter, and the 1878 Jamaica Almanac lists him as the proprietor of two properties: Ardoch, in the Parish of St. Ann, and Golden Spring in the Parish of St. Andrew.

Abraham  died on 27th August 1880 at Norwood Lodge, St. Andrews, Jamaica.

Circuits

• 1840 Kingston, Jamaica
• 1846 [ no lists of stations had been received from Jamaica]
• 1852 Kingston, Jamaica
• 1856 Kingston, Jamaica and Cavaliers
• 1857 Kingston, Jamaica and Providence
• 1860 Providence, Jamaica
• 1871 Providence, Jamaica (supernumerary)
• 1875 disappears

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

Jamaican family search  https://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/