Seamen's Union Bethel of Fells Point and Sailor's Union Church in Federal Hill were not filial congregations and were not otherwise connected, at least not in any of the documentation and research that I have come across. None-the-less, an inquiry to the Lovely Lane Methodist Archive would probably give you a definitive answer. The Federal Hill church building still exists and I think the congregation is still extant. Gary 31 July 2006 Baltimore http://home.att.net/~g.ruppert Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:25:27 -0400 From: "gbond@erols.com" <gbond@erols.com> To: MD-BaltimoreCity-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <380-220067131142527203@M2W012.mail2web.com> Subject: RE: [MD-BaltimoreCity] Re:Seaman's Union Bethel Church, corner Bethel and Aliceanna Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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