Old Chapel House Richmond Hill Leeds

[stanmapstone]

I think it was the Richmond Hill Wesleyan Chapel built 1848, closed 1961 and subsequently demolished. The document says there was also a Primative Methodist Chapel, but that's the one further down

From the Yorkshire Returns of the 1851 Census of Religious Worship: Richmond Hill (Wesleyan Methodist). Erected 1849, Separate and entire building, used exclusively as a Place of Worship (except for Sunday Schools). Sittings Free 550 Other 650. On 30 March Mornining General Congregation 406 Sunday Scholars 240. Evening General Congregation 446, Sunday Scholars 60 (in orchestra) ..... Signed John P. Haswell, Wesleyan Minister, Leeds.

Stan

[Paul Debbie Alex Baker]

The Old Chapel House, Richmond Hill was where Doctor James Francis Patrick Devlin (1892-1952) lived. He was originally from Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland. He trained as a doctor in Dublin, and later practiced in Leeds. He and his wife Esther are recorded as living at the address on the 1939 England and Wales Register. My grandmother was his cousin. During the war, she went to stay with family, because Leeds was deemed safer, and less likely to be bombed compared to where she was living at the time. My grandmother was pregnant at the time, and Doctor JFP Devlin delivered my aunt.

JFP Devlin’s son John Devlin also trained as a Doctor. He took over his father’s practice.