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Durham / Re: Baptist Records, Hetton-le-Hole
« on: Tuesday 02 March 10 14:43 GMT (UK)  »
William Greatrex is listed in Pemberton Street in 1841, aged 68, in Hetton-le-Hole. So it would seem quite likely that there was still a small Baptist community there.

Mckenzie & Ross (1834) say (under 'Hetton Township') 'In the village there are four places of worship, belonging to the Baptists, and the Wesleyan, Primitive, and Kilhamite Methodists.'

Bill

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Durham / Re: Baptist Records, Hetton-le-Hole
« on: Tuesday 02 March 10 14:30 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, you're quite right of course. Silly thing for me to say.

When I say on my site that four people were baptised:

In 1836, four people in their early twenties are baptised: Robert Greenwell, George Greenwell, Ann Henderson, Jane Redman - which is to say, the first George Greenwell's sons, and their wives-to-be.

I mean that they were baptised as adults in Sunderland at Sans Street, not in Hetton. Sorry for any confusion. Hostility to infant baptism was a defining characteristic of Baptists, of course.

Bill

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Durham / Re: Baptist Records, Hetton-le-Hole
« on: Tuesday 02 March 10 09:30 GMT (UK)  »
The information I found was in the Sunderland Sans Street Baptist History/ Register, although there are one or two references to the Hetton Baptists in trade directories. Nothing online, I'm afraid (and I think the Sans Street records have been archived somewhere since). I don't think there was a burial ground for the Hetton Baptists at the outset. And I haven't come across any BMD records - they may well have used the local church. My great x 4 grandfather married at Holy Trinity in Sunderland, even though he was a Baptist in Sans St at the time.

Bill

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