MORRIS
,
WILLIAM
(
1783
-
1861
;
DWB
, 667).
He is described as
William
Morris
, ‘
Minister of the Gospel
’,
Clydau
, in his bond dated
22 Aug. 1822
to marry
Lettice
Morris
,
Llansteffan
.
Corrections and additions:
MORRIS
,
WILLIAM
(
1783
-
1861
),
Calvinistic Methodist minister
;
b. in
Church Street
,
Kilgerran, Pembs.
, in
1783
, son of
Thomas
and
Margaret
Morris
.
THOMAS
MORRIS
(
1761
-
1831
) was the
superintendent of the C.M. society
which met in his house and, when he was getting on for middle age, began to
preach
in
west Wales
, while continuing to follow his trade as a
country boot-maker
. He d.
17 Oct. 1831
. His son was also a
boot-maker
; he joined the society as a young man and began to
preach
c. 1801
. In
1812
he was licensed as a
dissenting minister
; and he was ordained at the
Llangeitho Association
in
1815
. About
1835-6
he moved to
S. Davids
, where he d.
8 Dec. 1861
, and was buried in the cathedral churchyard. He travelled a great deal throughout
Wales
and was held in high esteem by his contemporaries who regarded him as an ardent and lucid
preacher
. In
1873
a stout volume of his sermons was published under the editorship of
George
Williams
.
Bibliography:
-
Y Drysorfa
1862
, 33, 70-3;
-
Methodistiaeth Cymru
, 1851–6
, ii, 325;
-
Y Gwyddoniadur Cymreig
, 1889-96
, vii, 587;
-
Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid
Calfinaidd
, ix, 58;
- the family vault at Kilgerran.
Author:
Rev. Gomer Morgan Roberts, M.A., (1904-93), Pont-rhyd-y-fen / St
Dogmael's / Llandybïe
