Rennison, George (1862-1937)
Early years
George was born in 1862 at Bridlington, Yorkshire to parents Thomas and Jane. Thomas was a joiner.
The 1881 census return identifies that George also trained as a joiner.
George was led into the experience of Christ by his Sunday school teacher.
Ministry
His obituary records that George was a most lovable man, blessed with the natural gifts and graces so desirable in a minister of Jesus Christ. Preaching the gospel was his first delight and pastoral work was always attractive to him, whilst his gracious spirit was a potent factor for good. He was a bright and cheerful personality, a hard-working man, faithful to his duties. Christian thought and practice made him very sympathetic, and his love for the children was a most marked feature of his ministry.
Following superannuation, George was an active supernumerary in the Higher Openshaw circuit, Manchester.
Family
George married Lilly Reynolds (1869-1949) in the summer of 1891 at Chester, Cheshire. Census returns identify four children.
- Amy (b1892)
- Doris (1893-1975)
- Lucy (1896-1968)
- May (1904-1989)
George died on 15 January 1937 at Audenshaw, Manchester.
Circuits
- Hartley
- 1887 Preston Brook
- 1889 St Day
- 1891 Plymouth
- 1893 Newtown
- 1895 Talke
- 1899 Wrexham
- 1901 Chester III
- 1904 Market Drayton
- 1905 Burnley II
- 1909 Foxhill Bank
- 1912 Rochdale
- 1915 Lydbrook
- 1918 Hereford
- 1921 Presteign
- 1924 Wigan
- 1927 Manchester (S)
References
Primitive Methodist Magazine 1918/856
Methodist Minutes 1937/196
W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990
Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers
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I have just added a photograph of his headstone on Find a Grave. He is buried with his wife Lilly in Audenshaw Cemetery, Gtr Manchester, Lancashire.
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