Forest of Dean FHT Forum - Chapelry

Chapelry (reply)

slowhands — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:37:37 +0000

A Chapelry is firstly a place of worship;

Then the Ceremonies of Baptism, Marriage, and Burial may according to Law be performed; however not all chapelries where authorised to perform all ceremonies (!) and if they did they typically had their own set of Registers.

Bream in Newland (reply)

tonyjenkins — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:23:59 +0000

Can you please help with the definition of a chapelry

Is it a place of worship or can members,

1. Be baptised there with records held at parent church

2. Married there with records held at parent church

3. Burial service held there but intered at parent church

Regards

Tony

Bream in Newland (reply)

tonyjenkins — Sat, 03 May 2008 07:28:18 +0000

Hi Jean

Thx for advice will check both Bream and Parkend.

Do you know if Coleford was a seperate church?

Regards

Tony

Bream in Newland (reply)

jcholak — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:06:31 +0000

I apologize for now duplicating the threads! I failed to notice the link to the January query that Slowhands kindly provided with regard to the baptism duplications. However, I'm still hoping someone can answer my questions as to why the baptisms would be duplicated at Newland. Any takers?

Jean

Bream in Newland (reply)

jcholak — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:55:08 +0000

Slowhands is correct. As I transcribed the Bream baptisms, I came across memoranda in the records that noted the registers were taken to Newland on at least four separate occasions, as follows:

Dec. 26, 1813 "Taken to Newland"
Nov. 6, 1825 "1822 the Church was slated for repairs, and not reopened
late 1825 - during which period the Registers will probably be
found at Parkend and Newland"
Oct. 28, 1818 "The registers taken to Newland"
Dec. 27, 1829 "Taken to Newland"

I don't know if this was a common practice for the chapelries, or if it was an attempt to preserve the registers while the chapel underwent renovation. Perhaps Slowhands has the answer as to why this occurred.

As suggested in the 1825 memorandum, in addition, you may want to view the Parkend baptisms for your family roots.

I would like to know if the Newland Church, upon receipt of the Bream registers, would then incorporate the Bream information into their own registers? Slowhands?

Jean

Bream in Newland (reply)

slowhands — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:37:02 +0000

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=8932#p8934

Bream is/was a chapelry in the parish of Newland; so my understanding is the Baptism was recorded in Bream and then maybe some one has updated the records in Newland :-)

Evan Jenkins and Sarah (nee Priest) (reply)

tonyjenkins — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:23:41 +0000

I believe I have also found their burials at Newland.

Evan 1812 aged 73 ID 123913 register p227 in 1/5
Sarah 1799 aged 60 ID 123056 p227 in 4/2.

I cannot find any Newland MI's for them. (Gloucestershire FHS) v2003

Regards

Tony Jenkins

Evan and Sarah (Priest)

tonyjenkins — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:58:40 +0000

For the baptism of both Eleanor 1769 ID 246362 and Evan ID 246245 Evan Jenkins and Sarah (Priest) returned to Newland, they were living in Breem.

I know Breem is not far from Newland but believe Breem had its own church.

I believe that Evan is the SO John and Mary, born 1739, married 1720 to Sarah Priest in Newland.

I have been concentrating my tree around Newland and Clearwell but if my theory is correct need to spread the roots out to include Breem.

Is there any way I can support my theory.

Regards

Tony