Hi, That was destroyed, true, but did that church move back in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century to E Cross St where it was known as Sailors Union Bethel Church? That church was affiliated with the Methodist church at first, being home to what were called "Shouting Methodists." Today that church stands as a landmark and is called (because of a pastor who came and went quickly) to Bible Baptist Church. The church, I believe, was and is independant. Some of my family went there in it's Shouting Methodist days. If this is the second location of the church you name it is possible records are there. As the church was so unlike the mainstream Methodists of it's day it may not have had affiliation the Methodist Episcopal. They are very rich in tradition and the last I was there even had a large ship hanging from the ceiling. I have a feeling they might even have old records. You could try. Gloria Original Message: ----------------- From: g.ruppert@att.net (g.ruppert@att.net) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:35:05 +0000 To: Subject: [MD-BaltimoreCity] Re:Seaman's Union Bethel Church, corner Bethel and Aliceanna Christine: You're correct, Seamen's Union Bethel no longer exists and it was (as of its demise) associated with the Methodist Church. The Methodist Archive at Lovely Lane in Baltimore unfortunately has no church registers belonging to this congregation. Despite it's name, it seems to have served as a community church as well as a Seamen's church. To my knowledge, no records have survived. Gary 31 July 2006 Baltimore http://home.att.net/~g.ruppert Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:09:31 -0400 From: Christine Schott <christineschott@netscape.net> To: MD-BaltimoreCity-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <44CD584B.6010100@netscape.net> Subject: Seaman's Union Bethel Church, corner Bethel and Aliceanna Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know anything about this church? (Seaman's Union Bethel Church at the corner of Bethel and Aliceanna in Baltimore City - I don't think it exists anymore) More specifically, are there any records available? I've searched the MD State Archives Church records list, the MD Historical society library catalog, and the Family History Library catalog. I'm not sure if there are other places I should be searching. I've figured out that this is a Methodist Episcopal Church (I think). So far I've only been researching in Lutheran Churches (I'm very German), so I don't know what other resources are out there for Methodist Episcopal. Thanks Christine ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .