Hi Sandra, have a picture of the Wesleyan Chapel in Newcastle under Lyme (?? Lower Street??) . It appears to be large and quite fancy, so I suspect there would have been a local Minister permanently there. This is where my grandparents were married (according to their marriage certificate).in 1892.The Chapel was apparently built in 1799 and demolished around 1960 . I have never heard of baptism being an 'in favour/out of favour' thing, but always understood it was considered very important to baptise children as soon as possible after their birth, in case they died without having been accepted into their Church! Not having had a Chapel upbringing (I was C of E) I really don't know much about it. Diana On 12 April 2012 11:55, Sandra <slewi4@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > Some of mine from Northumberland were Wesleyan Methodists and did baptise > their babies. See IGI Batch number C15565-1. > > Maybe there was no Wesleyan Methodist Minister in your area at that time, > or > maybe infant baptism was out of favour with the local minister. > > Sandra > > -----Original Message----- > From: staffordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:staffordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dawn Webb > Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2012 10:16 AM > To: staffordshire@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [STAFFORDSHIRE] Stoke on Trent/NewcastleNon-Conformist > Registers > > I THINK Methodists in general did have baptism - not sure about infants > though. Are you sure all the prs/con-conformist records are on line for > the > region you want? I know what they say, but so often they have bits and > call > it - baptisms from 1800-1837 but digging deeper shows they have ten in > 1800, > a handful elsewhere, and a lot in perhaps 1826! The Wesleyan Methodists - > I > know less abut them. It would be worth googling it and seeing what they > have - in fact I am off to do that right now! > > Dawn > > > ****************************** > ATTENTION TO ALL:- When replying please remove the details that do not > apply to your mail and change the SUBJECT LINE for best useage of ARCHIVED > MATERIALS. > ------------------------------- > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > STAFFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >