Crimlisk Reference: G71

In loving memory of WILLIAM MOORE, Methodist Minister, died Dec 27^th 1944, aged 78.

And CATHERINE, his beloved wife, called home May 6^th 1955, aged 78.

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The EYFHS entry (139) has the following Burial Register notes:

1944 Dec 30. William Moore, “Hilston”, Belle Vue Crescent, Filey. 78.

1955 May 9. Catherine Moore, Belle Vue Cres, Filey. 78.

Citation: Filey, St Oswald’s Monumental Inscriptions, Part one: 139, page 21. East Yorkshire Family History Society, Publication No. M289, © 2014

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Note: Catherine was William's third wife. 

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Life Sketch

William was born on 22 October 1866 in Cowden, East Yorkshire, the fourth child of Richard MOORE and Annie née HUNTSMAN. He was christened at the parish church of All Saints, Mappleton, a month later, on 22 November.

The website My Primitive Methodists has detailed biographical information about William that helps considerably to plot a life journey shared with three wives.

William “gave his heart to God” at the age of thirteen. His grandfather was an early convert to Primitive Methodism when William Clowes preached in the nearby city of Hull. His father preached for fifty years and his brother Charles became a Primitive Methodist Minister. On his gravestone William is described as a “Methodist Minister”. My Primitive Methodists lists his Circuits chronologically, ending up in Filey in 1929 as “Sup”, presumably superintendent. One source indicates that he may have switched allegiance to the Wesleyans before the formal merging of the two Methodist Connexions in 1932.

Decennial Census snapshots succeeded only once in capturing William in the company of a wife. The chronological list that follows, interleaving census, circuits, births, marriages and deaths a may help to illustrate why this was so.

1871 Census: At Great Cowden. Father Richard, 30, is a farmer of 15 acres. Also in the household are mother Annie, 31, and siblings George, 11, John, 9, Richard, 6, and James, 2.

1881 Census:  William, 14, has moved a short distance from his father’s 15 acres to work as a servant for Luke SIMPSON on a much larger farm of 123 acres on the Mappleton to Aldborough road. He is, presumably, in the early stages of his religious fervour.

1891 Census:  Age 24, William is still close to his childhood home, lodging in South Gate, Hornsea, with corn miller William Bassingdale, and described as a “hired local preacher”.

1892 Circuit: Millom. After 24 years in a few square miles of the Holderness Plain, it seems quite a leap, across the Pennines to the west coast of England.

1895: Circuit Frodsham. While in Millom, William met Annie Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Albert COWAN. 

1896: In the summer William returned north to marry. The Millom Gazette, 11 July, describes the wedding:-

Marriage of a Former Millom Minister

On Wednesday afternoon the nuptials were solemnised at the Primitive Methodist Church, Dalton-in-Furness, between the Rev. William Moore, of Frodsham, Cheshire, and up to lately Primitive Methodist minister at Millom, and Miss Annie Elizabeth Cowan, second daughter of Captain Thomas A. Cowan, mining agent, of Dalton. More than ordinary interest was centred in the event, and as a result of that interest, there was a large congregation in the place of worship. The bride looked exceedingly charming in a dress of cream silk beautifully trimmed. The bridesmaids were Miss Emily Cowan (sister of the bride), Miss E. Hartley (cousin of the bride), Miss Dora Martin, and Miss Annie Orr. The duties of best man devolved upon the Rev. J. T. Pritchard of Millom, the bride being given away by her father. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Joseph Burkitt, of Dalton, and the Rev. H. R. Didcock, of Millom. A large number of guests subsequently assembled at the house of the bride’s parents, Slater-terrace, Chapel-street, the happy pair coming in for many congratulations. Later in the day, Mr and Mrs Moore left for Colwyn Bay, where the honeymoon will be spent. The presents were numerous and useful.

1898: Circuit Liverpool.

1900: Circuit Hindley. In the parish of Wigan, Lancashire. Annie Elizabeth died in the summer, her death registered in the September Quarter, in Wigan.

1901 Census: William is living alone at 4, Hall Lane, Hindley, Wigan, age 34, a widower and “Minister Primitive Methodist Church”.

1901 Marriage, December Q to Margaret FISHER, age 30. William and Margaret had two children. One died in infancy and may have been Donald, whose birth and death were registered in Wigan, June Q 1903.

1903: Circuit Buckley. Buckley is in Flintshire, Wales, in the Hawarden Registration District.

1908: Birth of William and Margaret’s second son, William Henry, June Q, Hawarden.

1909: Circuit Chester.

1911: Census. William, Margaret and William Henry are enumerated in Holderness Road, Hull, visiting his younger brother James, his wife Ann Elizabeth née WITTY and their daughters Elsie May and Millicent. William is described as a “Minister Wesleyan Methodist”. With uncertain veracity, William says he has been married to Margaret for 14 years and that one of their two children has died.

1912: Death of Margaret registered in West Derby (Liverpool), September Q, aged 40.

1913: Circuit Withernsea.

1916: Marriage to Catherine NICHOLSON, spinster, aged 39, 5 June (?) at Liverpool St Catherine Church, (West Derby Registration District).

1919: Circuit Filey

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Sources/Acknowledgements

Record of the Inscriptions on the Gravestones in the Churchyard of St Oswald's Church Filey as at Spring 1977

Recorded by John C. & Maisie Crimlisk, 1977

Post-Spring 1977 Inscriptions recorded by John Siddle

Digitization by Ian Elsom, 2008-2009, shared online with kind permission of Filey PCC

Filey, St Oswald's Monumental Inscriptions, East Yorkshire Family History Society, March 2014

This resource, in three parts, is available from the Society. It is a more comprehensive record and its sequential numbering system

has been adopted for the Wiki Page Titles, with Crimlisk Area, Grave, and Row reference as a Sub-Head.

The inscriptions given here are from the digitization of the Crimlisk Record.

Last updated 26 October 2018