Reeves, William

Summary

Father: unknown
Mother: unknown

Birth: c 1780
Birth Source: census returns

Death: 1 Nov 1852
Death Source: see below

Spouse1: unknown (m 1807, d 1826)
Spouse2: Martha mnu (m 1827)

Narrative

The book "Father Reeves" (see Sources below) claims William was born on 15 December 1779 at Cudham in Kent, which is consistent with the information in the 1851 census.

He married his first wife, who is unnamed, on 5 October 1807 and she died on 11 November 1826 (pages 17 and 34 respectively).

William married Martha in 1827 (page 36). There are no known children of either of William's marriages (page 36).

William and Martha appear on both the 1841 & 1851 census returns in Lambeth, Surrey.

William died on 1 November 1852 shortly after having been knocked down by a bullock. There are several newspaper references to this incident available from the pay per view site British Newspaper Archive including the Morning Chronicle of Friday 5 November and The Era of Sunday 7 November 1852.

Sources

There is much biographical information about William in the book "Father Reeves, The Methodist Class-Leader: A brief account of Mr William Reeves, thirty-four years a class-leader in the Wesleyan Methodist Society, Lambeth" written by Edward Corderoy and published in 1853 by Carlton & Phillips of New York.
A copy is available on-line from The Internet Archive at http://archive.org/details/fatherreeves00cord

Birth:        "Father Reeves" page 12
Baptism:  
Marriage: (1) "Father Reeves" page 17
                  (2) ibid page 36
Death:      "Father Reeves" pages 149 & 150
                 FreeBMD 1852 December quarter, Lambeth Registration District

1841 Census: HO107, Piece 1058, Book 9, Folio 30 reverse, Page 9
1851 Census: HO107, Piece 1572, Folio 590 reverse, Page 19