Hi Bill, I think you may find that the Wesleyan Methodist records are probably held by the Wesleyan Historical Society. I have had help from them when I went to view their archives record books at: EDGEHILL THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE EDGEHILL College, 9 Lennoxvale, BELFAST BT9 5BY Tel: (028) 9066 5870 To the best of my knowledge very few of their records are digitised. If you Google "Wesleyan Historical Society" you will get lots of other addresses and it's possible that there may be a source closer to you that can help. However, since they are paper copies that are held by WHS it seems unlikely that the other addresses will have the records you are looking for. Sorry I can't be more helpful, Jim. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Hazelton" <bhazelto@comcast.net> To: <cotyroneireland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] Newtownstwart Town Archives - Existance? (Robert) > Hi Robert > > A church baptism was also my original thinking and assumed my Hazeltons > were > COI. They where Anglican in Digby, Nova Scotia. > > I visited the records office of the Ardstraw Church of Ireland in > Newtownstewart. The secretary impressed me when she pointed out that she > had > a rolodex index of all records and especially impressed when I told her I > was looking for the baptism of William Hazleton in 1841 and with a smug > look > on her face, she immediately said he is not in there. She then handed me a > letter on her desk from a relative, I had not heard of before, requesting > the same information. > > I also tracked down the Presbyterian records in a private home but struck > out again. > > I did not locate the Wesleyan Methodist records in Newtownstewart. Since > Digby did not have a Methodist church until later and some descendents > joined the church, it is a possibility. Some Killyman Hazeltons were > Wesleyan Methodist ministers and even traveled the circuit serving the > area, > this is a possibility. > > Any idea where the Wesleyan Methodist records may be found? > > You are probably correct that Newtownstewart did not have an official > archive. However, a local resident that I have lost contact with indicated > that all the town records were being stored in the nearby town of Grange. > Where? Someone's garage? :) > > Thanks Robert, I always appreciate your contributions. > > Bill > > > -----Original Message----- > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 13:36:20 +0000 > From: Ulster Ancestry <ulsterancestry@hotmail.com> > Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] Newtownstwart Town Archives - Existance? > Location? > To: <cotyroneireland@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <BAY109-W4369F49552EE63174E2DB0C3ED0@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Hello Bill, > > > > Newtownstewart is a "town" of about 4 streets. It may have a small local > library but it does not have an archive . > > > > George Hazelton has to be refering to a Church register of baptism. That > would have been the most likely {and possibly only} source of his record > of > "birth" > > > > best regards and good hunting. > > Robert > > www.ulsterancestry.com > > > > >> > >> After researching for years and having yet to link my Hazelton line with > the >> likely Killyman Hazeltons, I am retracing my research. >> >> According to the book "A GENEALOGY OF Hazelton and Stygles Families", >> Gateway Press,Inc. Baltimore,MD,USA by George F. Hazelton, he refers to >> my >> Great-Grandfather's birth as follows: >> >> " ...discovery in the archives of the town of Newtownstewart, County > Tyrone >> of the record of the 1841 birth of William, son of James and Elizabeth." >> >> He later gives his birth as 22 July 1841. >> >> While the family may have been transient on their way to Londonderry for >> eventual emigration to Nova Scotia (mid 1840's), he claims their daughter >> Margaret was also born there in 1844. >> >> My questions are: >> >> 1. Why would a birth be recorded in a town archive in the 1840's? >> 2. Was this common? >> 3. Did/Does a Newtownstewart town archive exist? >> 4. If so, where might it be? >> 5 How would I access it? >> >> Thanks for any suggestions or comments. >> >> Bill Hazelton >> Memphis >> >> > > > > ------------- > Our community web-site: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cotyroneireland > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COTYRONEIRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message