Missionary School of Islington, in Upper St. 1881

[Keith Sherwood]

Dazey999,
Thanks very much for that - one always hopes that the buildings where one's ancestors lived or worked or studied might still be there to go and gaze at, but never mind.  Perhaps that archive in Birmingham might have photographs of the place in Upper Street before it made way for something else - thanks for that link, Charlotte.  I may well contact them to see what they have on Edward Guilford and the College.
And that's an entirely plausible interpretation of a badly transcribed/handwritten entry in that 1881 Census,  Ray.  It's not a word I've come across before...
Many thanks for all those early morning contributions to this thread!
Regards, keith

[ElvisMole]

Keith

This is worth reading from A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=9522

Ray

[Keith Sherwood]

Ray,
Wow! That's almost too much to take in all at one go...A couple of years ago I visited the Library in St John's Street and bought a book in their Local History section entitled: "Islington Chapels", published by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, which is a facinating read about all the religious meeting places in the area.  Used to go and watch Arsenal quite a bit, and had no idea at the time that there were so many of these chapels in the roads and streets around the old and new stadium.
Thanks very much for that,
keith

[jjaney]

hi keith, have only just read these posts as I remembered the odd rumour of a missionary in my family, and found a John Martin in the same 1881 census of the Missionary College in Upper st. who might be an ancester of mine.
I googled a few miss-spellings and then found the term, 'Missiology', which seems to fit. (although it does appear to be a relatively new term, I'm not sure when it was first used.) Here is the definition from Wikipedia:

'Missiology is the area of practical theology that investigates the mandate, message, and mission of the Christian church, especially the nature of missionary work. Missiology is a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural field of study incorporating theology, anthropology, history, geography, theories and methods of communication, comparative religion, Christian apologetics, methodology, and interdenominational relations. "Inherent in the discipline is the study of the nature of God, the created world, and the Church, as well as the interaction among these three.'

I also came across some old photos on flicker that might be of interest:

www.flickr.com/photos/29482804@N06/sets/.../detail/

I now need to do some more census searches etc. but thanks for all the info. What an interesting place it must have been!

jenny