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    1. [ENG-MAN] ENG-MAN] Elizabeth FLETCHER burial
    2. Winifred Johns
    3. "in Oldham Street Wesleyan Chapel" [who have no attached burial ground] "in Manchester. ... strongly committed Methodists":- "Manchester Archives and Local Studies {MALS} website has Methodist records for chapels in the Manchester and Stockport Methodist District. The majority of these registers are on microfilm, although some are only available in the Archives section. " http://www.mlfhs.org.uk/Infobase/graveyards.htm leads to a list of Manchester graveyards and the periods they cover. 1) Manchester City Centre- Central Hall, Oldham Street (formerly Oldham Street Wesleyan) had no attached graveyard, and its surviving registers are for baptisms and marriages. cf. Devon government website "Burial registers are rare because Methodists did not usually have their own burial grounds." When a general cemetery was opened, various denominations could have burials there. Others may know what happened in the interim. 2) Oldham Road [further out and separate from 'Oldham St.' in the city] Wesleyan / Methodist church registers [as listed on 'MALS' website] have no burial registers 1836 and earlier 3) Great Bridgewater St. Wesleyan Chapel [south of Oldham St.] had a burial ground: Microfilm of original records at the Public Record Office, London. .. [include] burials, 1800-1854. RG-4 series nos. 885, 975, 2695, 2436, 2437, 2172, 2696. [A local LDS FH library, for a fee, could arrange to get a copy in for you to view.] 4) '1819-1837 non-parochial records [including burials] of 4 chapels in Manchester' includes 2 Wesleyan / Methodist ones: St. Peter Street Connexion Methodist Chapel, and Droylesden Wesleyan Chapel - although I do not know if either are near Oldham St. Wesleyan Chapel. [A local LDS FH library, for a fee, could arrange to get a copy in for you to view.] N.B. LDS' 'library catalog' under 'Place' ..'Manchester Lancashire' lists a number of Wesleyan Methodist parish registers, which do not include 'burials' in the microfilms / transcriptions they have made. However, see 5.2 below. 5) Cheetham and Cheetham Hill- Cheetham Hill Wesleyan 5.1 Burials-1815-1832- MFPR 269 & Burials-1832-1837- MFPR 270 - microfilms accessible at Manchester Archives & Local Studies; 5.2 Cheetham Hill Wesleyan Cemetery, Manchester, burials registers, 1815-1968; grave register 1815-1957 (from p.951) & old grave register 1861-1955 LDS films. I do not know if they are near Oldham St. Wesleyan Chapel; but was recommended to try them. [A local LDS FH library, for a fee, could arrange to get a copy in for you to view.] Winifred Johns

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