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From: "AH Mail" <>
Subject: [FENS] Re: Downing Place, Indpendent
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 20:05:48 -0000
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There was a Independent Chapel in Downing Place before 1872.
Adrian



----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Ward" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:30 PM
Subject: [FENS] Re: Dissenting Minister


> Now this is a bit of a mystery. The United Reformed Church handbook for
> 2001, says that the Downing Street Chapel commenced in 1879, sometime after
> your marriage. So I wonder if there was another chapel in the street - even
> a different denomination?
>
> There is a very useful collection of church and chapel photographs around
> Cambridge at
> http://www.cambridge2000.com/cambridge2000/html/photograph_category/religiou
> s.html which other readers may be interested to see.
>
> Really needs someone on the ground, who knows Cambridge.
>
> Coincidentally the United Reformed History Society is also based in
> Cambridge and may be able to help with your enquiry about the minister.
>
> URC History Society
> Westminster College
> Madingley Road
> Cambridge
> CB3 0AA
>
> Tel: + 44 (0) 1233 353 997
>
>
> Sources of Methodist history in Cambridge can be found at
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcam/method.htm
>
> Graham Ward
> http://www.geocities.com/grahamsward/
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pat Macfarlane" <>
> To: "Graham Ward" <>
> Sent: 16 December 2001 10:15
> Subject: Dissenting Minister
>
>
> > Thanks for yours. Parties to the marriage Henry Joseph WETENHALL, father
> > Henry WETENHALL, Dissenting Minister and Emma BARRETT,father George.
> Married
> > at Downing Street Chapel. I suspect Henry may have been a lay preacher as
> in
> > 1830 he was a painter, plumber and paperhanger as were his father and one
> of
> > his brothers. I have never found the baptisms of the two children that I
> > know of (he married in St Marys, Bury St Edmunds) though the rest of his
> > family have children duly christened, married and buried at St Sepulchre.
> > Pat
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Graham Ward" <>
> > To: "Pat Macfarlane" <>; <>
> > Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 2:49 AM
> > Subject: Re: DISSENTING MINISTER
> >
> >
> > > What are the names of both parties and the fathers? Where did the
> marriage
> > > take place? Any clues to the denomination (Baptist, Methodist or
> > > Independent are the most common, but there are many others)?
> > >
> > > Have a look at my website at
> > > http://www.geocities.com/grahamsward/ for some background. There are
> some
> > > ministers listed for chapels in Huntingdonshire.
> > >
> > > Graham
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Pat Macfarlane" <>
> > > To: "ENGLISH FENS MAILLIST" <>
> > > Sent: 15 December 2001 02:00
> > > Subject: DISSENTING MINISTER
> > >
> > >
> > > > I have an ancestor who is described on his son's marriage certificate
> in
> > > > 1845 as a dissenting minister. Can anyone suggest where I might be
> able
> > to
> > > > find more information about him?
> > > >
> > > > Pat Mac
> > > >
> > > > ______________________________
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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