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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Northumberland => Topic started by: harton on Friday 15 August 08 17:25 BST (UK)
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I've just found a christening on the IGI for JAMES ANGUS and the place of the christening is given as "Groat Market Meeting-Nc, Newcastle Upon Tyne NBL"". Does anyone know anything about this palace?
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Here's the location of the Groat Market:
Click for Map (http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=424841&y=564079&z=1&sv=groat+market&st=6&tl=Groat+Market,+Newcastle+Upon+Tyne,+NE1&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf)
The main Quaker Meeting House in N/C is now on Jesmond Road/Archbold Terrace
Gadget :)
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Thanks Gadget, I wondered if it was Quaker.
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I've just found a christening on the IGI for JAMES ANGUS
Quakers neither practise baptism nor celebrate the Eucharist.
Stan
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Groat Market Meeting-NC, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland was an English Presbyterian Church built in 1708. It was succeeded by the John Knox Presbyterian on Berwick Street in 1853 and exactly 100 years later, in 1953, this closed and the congregation joined with that of a new (1943) church
at West Denton.
See http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/northumbria/2001-01/0980126692
Stan
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Hi Stan
Groat Market Meeting-NC, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland was an English Presbyterian Church built in 1708. It was succeeded by the John Knox Presbyterian on Berwick Street in 1853 and exactly 100 years later, in 1953, this closed and the congregation joined with that of a new (1943) church
at West Denton.
Stan
That's really interesting - what is the source please because I'm sure that you haven't got it in memory :)
Gadget
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It's Ok stan, I've found the quote from Brian Pears:
It was an English Presbyterian Church built in 1708. It was
succeeded by the John Knox Presbyterian on Berwick Street
in 1853 and exactly 100 years later, in 1953, this closed
and the congregation joined with that of a new (1943) church
at West Denton.
http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/NORTHUMBRIA/2001-01/0980126692
It's always best to give sources, especially if you quote verbatim
Gadget
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My apologies, that was an oversight, it won't happen again
Stan
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Newcastle, John Knox (Groat Market) United Reform Meeting House.
X & Births 1726-1930 [FC1362-63]
http://www.tyneandweararchives.org.uk/pdf/userguide11.pdf
Stan
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GROAT MARKET MEETING-HOUSE (Scotch Presbyterians)
This meeting-house is approached by a long, narrow entry, from the Groat Market; but another and more commodious entrance is by a gateway, opening into the Pudding Chare. It is a good, substantial, brick building, with a spacious gallery, and affords accommodation for above 700 persons. The Rev. William Arthur occurs as minister about the year 1715, when the chapel seems to have been built
From: 'Protestant Dissent: Chapels and meeting-houses', Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Including the Borough of Gateshead (1827), pp. 370-414. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43362. Date accessed: 15 August 2008.
Stan
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Thank you for all that information Stan.
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Thought you might be interested in this:
oral family account of MARTHA MARGARET MORRIS BROWN (b1859) , as told to her nephew JOSEPH THORBURN BROWN in 1927 and transcribed in 1953; included in the public BROWN FAMILY TREE (ancestry.co.uk) .
According to her, her grandfather [JOHN BROWN, Master Mariner, b1776 circa] was "a member of the oldest Quaker family in the North". The Browns were highly respected Quakers who had originated in a Quaker settlement in Newcastle, living a communal existence shut off from the world by a compound wall, the gate of which was opened twice daily- once at sunset and once at sunrise- to give bread and milk to the needy.
In 1930, JOSEPH was told by a Newcastle resident that the old Quaker wall was still remembered and spoken about. The then Newcastle County Archivist told him that there was an old meeting house which records show to have stood in an old, large walled garden, but there was no proof that it was ever a walled settlement.
I don't know how accurate this account is- but in other respects, MARTHA has proved to be a very reliable source for our family history.