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SHREWSBURY, ABRAHAM ROBERT BOYCE (1845-1885)

SHREWSBURY, ABRAHAM ROBERT BOYCE, Methodist minister, Derby mission, 1876-79; b. Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England, c1845, s/o the Rev. William James Shrewsbury and Mary Ann Durham Beale; m. 1879, Lillie Smith, of Saint John; d. Benton, Carleton Co., N.B., 2 Jul 1885.

Abraham R. B. Shrewsbury, the son of an English Methodist minister who served for many years as a missionary in the West Indies and South Africa, arrived in New Brunswick around 1871 and entered the ministry on trial in 1872. Prior to his ordination, he was a probationer at Summerside, P.E.I., and Canterbury, N.B. The Boiestown church records show that he also ministered there in 1875-76.

Shrewsbury's first assignment as an ordained minister was at Derby between 1876 and 1879. He followed the probationer William R. Pepper on that field, which was created in 1875 when the former Miramichi circuit was divided into half a dozen smaller units. The rest of his service was rendered in other rural communities in the province. When his premature death occurred in 1885 his wife, Lillie Smith, and three children were named as his survivors.

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[m] Advocate 5 Nov 1879 [d] Advocate 8 Jul 1885 / annual 1886; Betts (BB); Cornish; Spencer


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