Forest of Dean FHT Forum - Salem Free Chapel, Berry Hill https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/ Connecting Forest of Dean Researchers World-Wide en Salem Free Chapel, Berry Hill (reply) ""Forest folk maintained that Berry Hill was 'the last place God made - and then Him had to apologize.' ""

Gloucetershire Archives has some of the surviving records:-

Salem Free Church, Berry Hill

GB/NNAF/C588 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O73944)

Scope - 1942-1982: marriage register
Repository - Gloucestershire Archives

NRA catalogue reference NRA 3514 Glos RO misc


There are those who believe that the Ministers of the Free churches looked after the Registers/records and they have been passed from Minister to Minister, so they may still be around but not in Public archives.

]]> https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=8006 https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=8006 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:18:43 +0000 Generalslowhands Salem Chapel If a family attended Salem Chapel, Berry Hill, where would their pertinent church records be housed? Could the sacraments be legally performed in the non-conformist churches? Being a Yank, this issue of non separate, Church and State still confuses me, sorry!

]]> https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=7999 https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=7999 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:47:00 +0000 Generalllangrove