Background
Isaiah Perry was born in "Lawley Bank", Dawley, Shropshire, a son of John Perry.
Methodist minister Football player
Isaiah Perry was born in "Lawley Bank", Dawley, Shropshire, a son of John Perry.
He was the father of engineer Frank Perry and football player Charlie Perry. He trained for the ministry at the Richmond Theological College (now Richmond University), then one of four Methodist theological training colleges in England. In 1880, while still in his probationary period, he emigrated to South Australia, where he was hospitably received by John Colton, and conducted services at the Walkerville Methodist church.
He subsequently served at Kingston and Archer Street North Adelaide as junior minister, then three years each at Koolunga, Terowie, Maitland, Kadina, Willunga, Quorn, Mount Lofty, Woodville and after an 1897 sojourn in England, served at Payneham for four years, then Mount Gambier.
Isaiah Perry married Caroline Marie Paulina Roediger, eldest daughter of the Review Julius Roediger, on 8 October 1884.
John Perry (West Coast)
Frank Tennyson Perry (4 February 1887 – 20 October 1965), industrialist and parliamentarian
Review Charles Julius "Charlie" Perry (20 October 1888 – 4 January 1961) Methodist minister and Australian Rules football player
Albert Perry
Nellie Perry.