Genealogy Chat

Hi I rather think that a Methodist Circuit is more like a C of E Deanery. It's several churches with several ministers (probably not quite one each, these days) and they may get asked to preach in any of those churches fairly routinely (more often that would happen in C of E, probably), even though their main commitment is to one church. I feel reasonably confident about that - as picked up from conversations in my in-laws' home and amongst our local Churches Together gatherings. Christine

Methodist circuit? Is that right?

Hi, just confirming that us Methodists don't refer to parishes so you are right (and no need to disturb resting hubby!!) :)

Hello You refer to "Parbold" parish. Looking at Multimap, Parbold isn't enormous now and was, presumably, no larger in the past. RC parishes tend to be pretty large and I would expect them to centre on a larger place than that. Also, "Minister" is not commonly a description for RC purposes - you'd expect "Parish Priest" or "Priest". I don't know what the churchmanship is around that area, but "minister" doesn't sound high-church either, so I'd expect this to be a C of E clergyman of 'MoR' or, possibly, low church tradition. The reference to a "parish" means it's more likely to be Cof E or RC. I don't recall hearing that term in the context of Methodism or any other free churches but am willing to be corrected. (I don't think I should disturb my [methodist] husband, whom I suspect of "resting his eyes" in front of the TV at the moment). Christine

Thanks to all for the advice - will start researching. Been busy last few days - nearly at the end of my Ancestry free trial and trying to find as much as I can before the expiry date Maggie

I've just put this link on another thread - 'cos it's got India stuff on it. haven't actually looked up anything in particular, but I thought it looked promising. Found it yesterday vie UKBMD: http://www.*nationalarchivist.*com/ Certainly Crockfords is the C of E yearbook. There is a Roman Cathoic yearbook too, but the title looks like a C of E Bishop. If you can find a copy of Crockfords up to the year he died it will give you a potted history - dates of ordination, plus career moves and so on. There should also be some kind of record in the Army Chaplain's department. Possibly in the National Archives. Christine

Hi Maggie The Church of England site has a section on Crockfords and offers an archive service: http://www.*cofe.anglican.org/clergypay/crockford/Crockford2.htm Remove the * Hope this helps Judith

Hi Maggie, You need to look at Crockford's Clerical Directory - there is one for every year, but not sure when they started. It will give a good life history of him: degrees, jobs, addresses etc. There are quite a few hits when I just Googled on it. My great uncle was an Archdeacon in the diocese of Manchester. As a result he was listed in Who's Who until he died. He was then listed in the obituary section the following year. These two ideas might help hopefully. John

I am trying to trace my husbands family and am stuck on his Grandfather. All I know is he was The Very Rev Albert Woodhouse. He was an Army Chaplain in India and became an ArchDeacon on his return to UK. He was born approx 1876 and died in 1962. I have no idea about where he was born or lived. Does anyone have any idea where I can find records on clergy please? Maggie