Many thanks David for your interesting reply to my message. Funnily enough, I contacted the Stockbridge Council website and they replied saying they had never heard of this Church!!! Jean -----Original Message----- From: DAVID PARKER [mailto:parker3250@rogers.com] Sent: 15 November 2005 22:19 To: HAMPSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Ham] Salem-Independent, Stockbridge,Hants Not much help but White's 1851 Directory reads 'There is an independent chapel in the town, built in 1817 at the cost of £900. The "Independents" as such were Congregationalists, but an independent chapel was not necessarily a Congregationalist Chapel as Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist and others all called some of their chapels independent, meaning independent of the established church. Such were known as "dissenters". (Roman Catholics, also "dissenters" were known as "Recusants".) Members of "independent" churches were known to change chapels and at times revert back to the established Church A few possibly interesting facts on non-conformist marriage The Toleration Act of 1689 allowed Protestant Dissenters to worship on Licensed premises Under Hardwicke's Marriage Act 1753 all marriages had to take place in an Anglican Church until 1837. at which time the Dissenters' Marriage Bill, 1836, legalised civil marriage and established a civil register of births, marriages and deaths, breaking the Anglican monopoly in recording these Finally the Marriage Act of 1849 permitted marriages in other than the Established Church David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Williams" <jean1.williams@ntlworld.com> To: <HAMPSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 3:48 PM Subject: [Ham] Salem-Independent, Stockbridge,Hants > Can anyone tell about this church? What religion was it? Some of my JEWELL > children were baptised there. > > Would there be any marriage records possible Benjamin JEWELL and Mary > KNELLER wed in this church. > > Many thanks for any help. > > Jean > > All Outgoing Messages are scanned by Norton Anti Virus Software > > > > > ==== HAMPSHIRE Mailing List ==== > Genealogy is contagious and you don't have to sneeze to pass it on > ==== HAMPSHIRE Mailing List ==== Visit the knightroots website at www.knightroots.co.uk

Hi Jean, Independent Churches could carry out Baptisms, but could not carry out Marriages for their Parishioners or Burials. Independent Churches also had their own magazine. My MALLYON family were Independent Church members in Cranbrook, Kent. I was able to get copies of the Baptisms from the Centre for Kentish Studies (Record Office), Maidstone. There were two Baptisms to a page. Regards Barbara Lewis Mallyon Basingstoke, Hants, UK BarbaraMallyon@lewmal.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Williams" <jean1.williams@ntlworld.com> To: <HAMPSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 4:59 PM Subject: RE: [Ham] Salem-Independent, Stockbridge,Hants Many thanks David for your interesting reply to my message. Funnily enough, I contacted the Stockbridge Council website and they replied saying they had never heard of this Church!!! Jean -----Original Message----- From: DAVID PARKER [mailto:parker3250@rogers.com] Sent: 15 November 2005 22:19 To: HAMPSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Ham] Salem-Independent, Stockbridge,Hants Not much help but White's 1851 Directory reads 'There is an independent chapel in the town, built in 1817 at the cost of £900. The "Independents" as such were Congregationalists, but an independent chapel was not necessarily a Congregationalist Chapel as Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist and others all called some of their chapels independent, meaning independent of the established church. Such were known as "dissenters". (Roman Catholics, also "dissenters" were known as "Recusants".) Members of "independent" churches were known to change chapels and at times revert back to the established Church A few possibly interesting facts on non-conformist marriage The Toleration Act of 1689 allowed Protestant Dissenters to worship on Licensed premises Under Hardwicke's Marriage Act 1753 all marriages had to take place in an Anglican Church until 1837. at which time the Dissenters' Marriage Bill, 1836, legalised civil marriage and established a civil register of births, marriages and deaths, breaking the Anglican monopoly in recording these Finally the Marriage Act of 1849 permitted marriages in other than the Established Church David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Williams" <jean1.williams@ntlworld.com> To: <HAMPSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 3:48 PM Subject: [Ham] Salem-Independent, Stockbridge,Hants > Can anyone tell about this church? What religion was it? Some of my JEWELL > children were baptised there. > > Would there be any marriage records possible Benjamin JEWELL and Mary > KNELLER wed in this church. > > Many thanks for any help. > > Jean > > All Outgoing Messages are scanned by Norton Anti Virus Software > > > > > ==== HAMPSHIRE Mailing List ==== > Genealogy is contagious and you don't have to sneeze to pass it on > ==== HAMPSHIRE Mailing List ==== Visit the knightroots website at www.knightroots.co.uk ==== HAMPSHIRE Mailing List ==== Our ancestors never die heaven knows where they goes.