Hi Linda St Johns Free Church of England is a new one on me, could you say where it is please? I thought I knew all the Southampton churches, but maybe it's elsewhere some place? Do you have any particular facts you are trying to discover, or just hoping a relative will see your note and contact you/ Cheers anyway,. Dave Jacobs ===================== At 13:50 24/09/2004, Rosserl106@aol.com wrote: >Hi list, these are my current Southampton interests, >COLVERSON- Samuel: (1861-1935), ( born Alverstoke, lived and died >Southampton) >LAKE- Edith: (1862- 1933),(Born Dorchester, lived and died Southampton) >THRESHER- Jessie (1857-?)Born Southampton > >Samuel and Edith married 6/3/1881, (St Johns Free Church of England). >especially interested in their children, one of which, Walter (1881- 1961) >was my gr grandfather. > >Linda > > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

Dave wrote, "St Johns Free Church of England is a new one on me..." You perhaps need to look under dissenting churches? The Free Church of England (FCE) movement still exists today and is Anglican; there were still 30 FCE churches in 1995. It was formed out of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connextion in 1863 by groups of parishioners who left their parish churches in protest against Ritualism, and was joined in 1873 by the North American Reformed Protestant Episcopal Church. Their first Bishop, Edward Cringe from Canada consecrated two FCE presbyters in 1876 and all FCE bishops are in this succession. "The Free Church of England: Introduction to an Anglican Tradition" (T&T Clark; ISBN 0-5670-8443-7 by the Revd. Dr. John Fenwick was published earlier this year. There may well be something on Google too. Regards Brian Incoming mail is certified Virus Free Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version 6.0.767 Virus Database 516 - Release Date: 24/09/2004

Thanks Brian. No doubt your information is absolutely correct. But I was really asking (forgive me if I was not clear about this) is, WHERE IS IT? The original writer did not say, but I assume because it was addressed to the Southampton list, that it is somewhere in this area. Cheers, Dave Jacobs =============== At 18:17 25/09/2004, Brian wrote: >Dave wrote, "St Johns Free Church of England is a new one on me..." > >You perhaps need to look under dissenting churches? > >The Free Church of England (FCE) movement still exists today and is >Anglican; there were still 30 FCE churches in 1995. > >It was formed out of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connextion in 1863 by >groups of parishioners who left their parish churches in protest against >Ritualism, and was joined in 1873 by the North American Reformed Protestant >Episcopal Church. Their first Bishop, Edward Cringe from Canada consecrated >two FCE presbyters in 1876 and all FCE bishops are in this succession. > >"The Free Church of England: Introduction to an Anglican Tradition" (T&T >Clark; ISBN 0-5670-8443-7 by the Revd. Dr. John Fenwick was published >earlier this year. > >There may well be something on Google too. > >Regards >Brian > >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) >Version 6.0.767 Virus Database 516 - Release Date: 24/09/2004