Comfort DAVIS - 1801 Newent and Mormon trek (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Sunday, October 09, 2011, 20:31 (4797 days ago) @ mikedavies

Hi Mike,
the following prior thread, which MAY be of interest, was thrownup by a Google search for "Newent Mormon" although curiously that "hit" was not repeated by this website's own search engine.
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=20701

Searching this website gives some possible leads including:
Re the name Ennis appears in this thread re nearby(ish) Weston U Penyard Mormons.
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=21613

This family left Newent(I guess)in the 1850s for Utah, possibly some clues there ?.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/659300/A-final-record.html?pg=4

You may already know (I'm a complete ignoramus to all this) that according to the LDS website the World's oldest Mormon Chapel is near Staunton(Newent) and still going since 1836. It's now run largely as a Museum/visitor centre, perhaps they can help your enquiries ?.

http://www.cotswolds.info/worcestershire/oldest-mormon-chapel.shtml

Or the official LDS website link which can be slow to load but worth waiting for.
http://www.lds.org.uk/about-the-church/the-church-in-the-united-kingdom/places-of-inter...

It seems our Three Counties area was of great significance to the Mormon Church.
http://www.lds.org.uk/about-the-church/the-church-in-the-united-kingdom/places-of-inter...

Hopefully some of this may help, I for one had no idea the Mormon Church had any involvement whatsoever with England never mind the Forest area so all very interesting for me.