Forum: Non Conformist Records

I have relatives possibly baptised in the Ely Wesleyan Circuit (Cambridgeshire), and I'm trying to understand what a "Circuit" is. Is it a bit like a Parish, and if so, was it likely to have it's own chapel? Thanks, Brenda

Hello I'm interested in Baptist records for Charlbury, Oxfordshire c1920 as I'm looking for information about my relative's life and, according to the Press, she was a Sunday School teacher. Does anyone know if it is likely that information about an active member's life would be noted in the...

What other documents can I research inorder to prove where my Gr-Gr-Gr-Gr-Grandfather William RICHARDS' parents actually lived around the time of his birth? Could his parents have been non-comformists even in this time frame of 1798? I really want to be sure I'm researching the correct RICHARDS'...

My ancestors were married in 1813 at St Giles Church, Balderton, Newark. Some of their children were baptised here but some at the Balderton Gate Wesleyan Chapel I've just realised this is in Newark itself and not Balderton. I can't find any information about it or pictures. Can anyone help?...

looking for a David Jones,born in Swansea,Glamorgan around 1814.I know he had a daughter called Mary born around 1840 in Aberdare.Mary married my great grandfather in Yorkshire in 1862.|help|

Hoping this is da place ---- Having come across the term in several records, what does non conformist mean? Is it someone who broke from a traditional religion? Thanks, guys. Teri|wave|

Hello, I have 2 branches of the family who were quite well off and were Quakers. We searched in vain for their grave stones in a very overgrown cemetery which we thought was the most likely place they were buried. We had previously found out that Quakers don't have large gravestones as they don't...

Do Wesleyan registers exist? I'm missing alot of baptisms of ancestors and they do not appear to be in their parish church registers. Many of their parents were married in the parish church with only one or two isolated cases marrying in their local chapels. Was it frowned upon not to baptise?...

I am looking for David James Smith born in glamorgan in 1923 / 24 married in Nuneaton Warwickshire 1942 to Gwendoline Bradley who died in June 1947.

I am struggling to find a baptism for my Gr-Gr-Gr-Gr-Grandfather William RICHARDS. The 1851 Census record shows WILLIAM RICHARDS' birth place as SCOTTERTHORPE (in the Parish of Scotter, Lincolnshire). His death certificate shows he died of English Cholera in Scotterthorpe on 2 November 1860 aged 73...

Hi , I wondered if it is possible to obtain a list of Preachers and lay preachers ,from this area ,1780s to 1800s. I have been told by family members that my GGG grandmother, was born abt 1791,and that she came from a family of ministers, in this area.I don't know her maiden name,which makes my...

hi i just found my great grandmothers brother's enlistment and war records in the australian national archives .(arthur marriott) and in the religion section he has signed he is plymouth ? I think it is brethren. he was born 1870 in aus . his mother is Caroline Anne Huffer Birth: 14 Apr...

Is there any sort of list, anywhere, of those families that left between 1620 and 1640 because they were Puritans? I have an ancestor named Thomas Orton who left sometime between 1621 and 1641, probably around 1635. The best guess is that he was from Leicestershire, and the original family name...

This book contains details of not just the ministers who were active in the Wesleyan, Primitive, United and Irish Methodist Churches at union in 1932 but also those lay people who held Connexional & Circuit offices. Those ministers who are likely to have their details in the book can be...