A comment in CAE which whilst indicating the 'hatch, match and despatch' customs in this parish does the Calvinists a dis-service with the 'very few Dissenters ' remark since the parish population was only 456 and the CMs had an average of 300 at their evening services - against the Church's own much smaller numbers. * Tydweiliog Chapel of Ease with Llangwnadle Attendance - average - morning 40 + 30 scholars Services in Welsh "There are very few Dissenters in this Parish. The Calvinistic Methodists have a meeting house but they invariably marry, Christen and bury in the Parish Church" John Evans, Perpetual Curate Gareth Genuki Wales http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/ Help Page http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html Cwmgors/Waun http://www.tytwp.plus.com/Waun/Waun.html

Hi Gareth I think the curate was using the term "dissenters" to refer to the demonations which stemmed from the C17 puritans - in a Welsh context, mainly baptists and congregationalists (ie annibynwyr). Historically, the Calvinistic Methodists broke away from the Anglican church rather than evolving from the dissenters. The Anglican clergy often referred to the CMs as enthusiasts, as in "..there are no enthusiasts in our parish". Anna At 15:09 17/07/2011, Gareth wrote: >A comment in CAE which whilst indicating the 'hatch, match and despatch' >customs in this parish does the Calvinists a dis-service with the 'very few >Dissenters ' remark since the parish population was only 456 and the CMs >had an average of 300 at their evening services - against the Church's own >much smaller numbers. > >* Tydweiliog Chapel of Ease with Llangwnadle Attendance - average - >morning 40 + 30 scholars Services in Welsh "There are very >few Dissenters in this Parish. The Calvinistic Methodists have a meeting >house but they invariably marry, Christen and bury in the Parish Church" >John Evans, Perpetual Curate > > >Gareth >Genuki Wales http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/ >Help Page http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html >Cwmgors/Waun http://www.tytwp.plus.com/Waun/Waun.html > > >-- > >To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com >GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html >- >A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, >may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > >- >The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and >http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message