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Hamsterley Baptist Church

Reference: B/Ham Catalogue Title: Hamsterley Baptist Church Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1750-1974

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  • Hamsterley Baptist Church
    • Hamsterley Baptist Church (Ref: B/Ham 1-8)
    • Registration and membership (Ref: B/Ham section 01)
    • Minutes (Ref: B/Ham section 02)
    • Burial ground (Ref: B/Ham section 03)
    • Correspondence (Ref: B/Ham section 04)
    • Sunday School (Ref: B/Ham section 05)
    • Church history (Ref: B/Ham section 06)
    • Miscellaneous (Ref: B/Ham section 09)

Catalogue Contents

Hamsterley Baptist Church (Ref: B/Ham 1-8)Registration and membership (Ref: B/Ham section 01)

2, 5-6, 9

Ref: B/Ham 2

The Evangelical Association for the Northern Counties of Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland, annual meetings' minutes, 1798-1805 Hamsterley Baptist Church: List of marriages, 1840-1908; List of burials, 1785-1965; List of members, pre 1859, with dates of baptisms, 1859-1869; List of births, 1750-1837 Note that the births and burials had been transcribed from the original records, by Christopher Spence, 1837
(1 volume)

Ref: B/Ham 5

Applications for baptism and membership, 1910-1915
(6 papers)

Ref: B/Ham 6

Correspondence, etc. re transfer of members, 1906-1914
(6 papers)

Ref: B/Ham 9

Register of infant dedications, 10 December 1929 - 24 August 1952 also adult baptisms, 1878-1944 and marriages, 4 June 1917 - 26 May 1945
(1 volume)

Minutes (Ref: B/Ham section 02)

3-4

Ref: B/Ham 3

Church meetings minutes, 1869-1907 includes: Notes of an admission and death, 1829, and dismission, 1850; Register of members, 1869-1915; Register of attendances, 1869-1900
(1 volume)

Ref: B/Ham 4

Church meetings minutes, 1908-1930 includes register of members, c.1900-1932
(1 volume)

Burial ground (Ref: B/Ham section 03)

11
for burials see B/Ham 2

Ref: B/Ham 11

Plan of Hamsterley Baptist burial ground, 1819-1974
(1 plan, 29 inches x 21 inches, paper)

Correspondence (Ref: B/Ham section 04)

7

Ref: B/Ham 7

Letters re the visit of Rev. C. E. P. Shearman, 1911
(2 letters)

Sunday School (Ref: B/Ham section 05)

10

Ref: B/Ham 10

Sunday School attendance register, April 1905 - May 1968
(1 volume)

Church history (Ref: B/Ham section 06)

1

Ref: B/Ham 1

History of Baptist Churches in the North of England from the year 1652, with particular reference to Hamsterley, compiled by Rev. David Douglas, 1846 with additional entries relating to Hamsterley, 1847-1873 ("The Hexham Records", the first volume relating to the Northern Association, 1652 - 1849, is at Baptist Church House, 4 Southampton Row, London, WC1B 4AB)
(1 volume)

Miscellaneous (Ref: B/Ham section 09)

8

Ref: B/Ham 8

Duties of the chapel keeper, n.d.
(1 paper)



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