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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My great grandfather John Wait, who worked at the tinplate works &amp; his colleagues built the chapel themselves according to our family history. it was built with their efforts &amp; commitment &amp; they even hauled some of the stone &amp; brick themselves</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When researching my mother`s side of the family I found her parents belonged to the Primitive Methodists. I had never heard of them and I went on Wikipedia. They have a good general history of this.I got the idea that they were very strict and a &quot;Happy Clappy&quot; religion that would set up a meeting anywhere,anytime they felt. How true this is,I don`t know.When my grandfather died he had moved on to become a very well respected Welsh Baptist!More research I think?! Hope the Wikipedia link may help,<br />
          Marj Rees</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They have a museum, and it has a website, on which interested persons can find a good capsule history of the church:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.engleseabrook-museum.org.uk/history.asp">http://www.engleseabrook-museum.org.uk/history.asp</a></p>
<p>The best collection of PM materials is at the Archives of Methodism in the John Rylands Library in Manchester.  I have been there to compare different editions of their early hymn book.  When it only contained sixty hymns, over a third were from the American camp-meeting movement; sixteen were by one rural preacher from Tennessee.  This lapse of poetic taste was corrected fairly soon, mainly by Hugh Bourne; but the original hymn collection (brought over by Lorenzo Dow at the end of 1805) was informally kept in print by Dow's admirers in Ireland -- not necessarily affiliated with the Primitive Methodist Connection -- at least into the late 1820s.</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks I'll try the links.</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Growing up as a Methodist in London, and born 11 years after the branches of Methodism were reunited, I didn't realise what splits there had been until I spent school holidays with my grandparents at Lydney in the 1950s.   They were stalwarts of the Methodist Church in Springfield Road (once &quot;Ebenezer Chapel&quot; as you can still see in the stonework) which until 1933 had been the &quot;Prim&quot;, and they let you know it, comparing it with the other Methodist Church in Hill Street, which they told you was occupied by &quot;them Wesserleyans.&quot;   As far as I remember, the congregations did not mix.</p>
<p>To be fair to my grandparents, they didn't embark on the subject until I had been marched to a circuit choir rendering of Stainer's &quot;Crucifixion&quot; at Pillowell Methodist Church, which had (and maybe still has) the words &quot;Primitive Methodist&quot; in its stonework, and I had queried the word &quot;Primitive.&quot;   Apparently all such manifestations of faction were supposed to have been eradicated, but it didn't always happen.</p>
<p>My sister has a bible presented to my grandmother's sister (Miss F M Sterrey) when she moved away from Lydney in 1912.   It is inscribed by my grandfather as Sunday School Secretary, and the inscription studiously refers to the church as &quot;Primitive.&quot;</p>
<p>The Hill Street church is long closed, but I visited Springfield in September 2011 to see the pulpit King James bible presented in my grandfather's memory in 1962.   Numbers there may not be huge, but it is a modernised and well-kept chapel that I wish well.</p>
<p>Given such circumstances and a reasonable fist at archiving, there may well be stored magazines of &quot;Prim&quot; chapels in the Forest which would throw light on the Primitive Methodist emphases and maybe the differences from &quot;them Wesserleyans,&quot; as well as the material giving rise to this thread.</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#c3c;"></span><span style="color:#60c;"></span>the primitive methodist magazine - Google Books Resultbooks.google.com/books?id=jggFAAAAQAAJ...<br />
1864<br />
ELIZABETH BUSH VINING. Mrs. Elizabeth Bush Vining, of Garndiffaith, Pontypool circuit, was born at Batcombe, in Somersetshire, on October 13th, 1803. ...</p>
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I haven't used a specific website for this -- I did a google search for the Primitive Methodist Magazine and included the names I was interested in in my search string.  It appears that a goodly number of issues of the magazine have been stored as google e-books, and are searchable.</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This may be the site ?.<br />
<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/primitivemethod00varigoog">http://www.archive.org/details/primitivemethod00varigoog</a></p>
<p>If you click on the B&amp;W page to the left, after it loads you can read, search etc.</p>
<p>Certainly I've found this and other US sites very useful, amongst other things I use it to read the Phillimores Parish Marriage Registers rather than buy the cds.<br />
Searching &quot;Gloucestershire&quot; gives the following;<br />
<a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=gloucestershire%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts">http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=gloucestershire%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts</a></p>
<p>Or searching &quot;Forest of Dean&quot; gives;<br />
<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028028920">http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028028920</a></p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you have the link to the correct web-page for it please? I've not found it when I've looked.</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If anyone has non-conformist ancestors, many issues of the primitive methodist magazine have been added to the internet.  Two of my ggg grandparents were both primitive methodist ministers (active c. 1830s - 1860s), and lengthly obituaries were included in the magazine for both, so it might be worth an internet search for anyone with primitive methodist roots.</p>
<p>They are included as on line books, and not always the easiest to navigate, but if you get a &quot;hit&quot; it is well worth putting the time in to find the content you are seeking.</p>
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