MB2/DSQ/6/3939

Handwritten list of certificates requesting registration of a dwelling house as a place of public worship, with separate list of signatories. Most do not mention denomination but are considered to be Methodist by the writer. Compiled in 1992 as part of research for circuit history. Also notes on Rev John C Leppington, a minister in the Luton Circuit, and photocopies of registration certificates (originals mostly from reference ABN2) as follows:

1779-1845 (later copies)

From: 1779 To: 1992

- house of Richard Gutteridge in possession of Mary Parker, 1779 - house in tenure of Thomas Holland in Church Street, 1790 - house occupied by Thomas Summerfield, 1797 - house occupied by John Darley in Church End, 1799 - house of Daniel Liberty, gentleman, 1812 - request from Thomas Kimpton, baker of Luton, mentioning people separated from the Baptist Calvinist interest at Dunstable, 1817 - house late in the occupation of Mr Crawley but currently unoccupied, request from Baptist Calvinists, but one of signatories may be Methodist, 1817 - Wesleyan Chapel in Dunstable, requested by William Pollard, minister of Luton, 1831 - Wesleyan Chapel in Dunstable, requested by Isaac Wale of Bedford, 1834 - barn on the premises occupied by William Partridge in Church Street, 1834 - Wesleyan Chapel in Dunstable, requested by Wright Shovelton, 1845

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Gutteridge, Richard,
Parker, Mary,
Holland, Thomas,
Summerfield, Thomas,
Darley, John,
Liberty, Daniel,
Kimpton, Thomas,
Pollard, William,
Wale, Isaac,
Partridge, William,
Shovelton, Wright,
Crawley

DUNSTABLE, Dunstable The Square, Dunstable Church Street, Dunstable Church End, LUTON, Methodist Church, Wesleyan Methodist, Methodist buildings, Methodist individuals, worship certificate, baker, Baptist buildings