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LMA/4316 · Collection · 1881-1940

Records of Silvertown Presbyterian Church including Court of Session minute books, 1897-1940; Deacons' Court minute books, 1881-1940; Sunday school minute book, 1937-1940; Communicants' roll books, 1907-1940; register of baptisms, 1883-1938 and conveyance of six plots of land situated in Silvertown, in the parish of West Ham, in the county of Essex, 1882.

Presbyterian Church of England
SION COLLEGE
GB 0074 CLC/198 · Collection · 1631-1996

Records of Sion College, a society of Anglican clergy. The majority of the collection dates from 1631, with deeds from 1611. The records include notes on the history of the College; constitution, rules and bye-laws; Court of Governor's minutes and other Committee minutes; annual reports; financial accounts; lists of Fellows and subscription books; letter books and correspondence; papers of the Secretary; legal papers; menus and invitations to events; newsletters and promotional material; press cuttings; papers relating to properties and estates owned by the College; papers relating to the library including committee minutes, inventories, lists of borrowed books and registers of rebinding; photographs of past Presidents and Fellows; and photographs of the Library and College.

Sion College
Slessor, Mary Mitchell
GB 0102 MS 380621 · (1877-1913) 1986

Typescript transcriptions, 1986, of letters of Mary Slessor in West Africa, written between 1877-1913 to various recipients, the subjects including her missionary work, life in Africa, religious reflections and Presbyterian church matters, fellow missionaries and other Europeans, and indigenous inhabitants.

Slessor , Mary Mitchell , 1848-1915 , missionary
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
GB 0074 CLC/183 · Collection · 1781-1943

Records of the Society of Friends Devonshire House meetings, comprising minutes and financial records only.

Society of Friends
GB 0096 MS 582, 779 · 1769-1850

A collection of miscellaneous documents, 1769-1850, relating to members of the Society of Friends, as follows:

  1. Marriage certificate of John Williams, grocer, of the parish of St Mary le Strand in London, and Rachel Hill, on 16 Nov 1769, at the Meeting House in Tottenham, London. Signed by 44 witnesses.
  2. Birth certificate of Ann, born 29 Oct 1776 at Stone Dean, Buckinghamshire, daughter of Joseph Green and Mary his wife.
  3. Birth certificate of Sarah, born 28 Sep 1792 at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, daughter of John Harker, cotton spinner, and Elizabeth his wife.
  4. Birth certificate of Ann, born 11 Nov 1793 at Mansfield, daughter of John and Elizabeth Harker.
  5. Birth certificate of Aston, born 9 Jan 1795 at Mansfield, son of John and Elizabeth Harker.
  6. Birth certificate of Elizabeth Ann, born 15 Apr 1799 at Mansfield, daughter of John and Elizabeth Harker.
  7. Two copies of the birth certificate of Grizell Maria, born 13 Dec 1799 at Chepping Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, daughter of Samuel Edmonds, mealman, and Grizell his wife.
  8. Birth certificate of Henry, born 20 Oct 1801 at Mansfield, son of John Harker and Mary his wife.
  9. Birth certificate of Jane, born 14 Mar 1803 at Mansfield, daughter of John and Mary Harker.
  10. Birth certificate of Catherine, born 6 Mar 1804 at Mansfield, daughter of John and Mary Harker.
  11. Birth certificate of Helen, born 29 Mar 1805 at Mansfield, daughter of the John and Mary Harker.
  12. Birth certificate of John, born 5 Aug 1806 at Mansfield, son of John and Mary Harker.
  13. Birth certificate of Susanna, born 20 Mar 1808, daughter of John and Mary Harker.
  14. Birth certificate of Anna, born 15 Jun 1809 at Mansfield, daughter of John and Mary Harker.
  15. Marriage certificate of William Green, grocer, of Chepping Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and Susannah Lamley, on 26 Aug 1818, at the Meeting House, Shipston-on-Stour, Worcester.
  16. Grant of administration of the effects of Susanna Green, late of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, (d 5 Feb 1838), to her husband William Green, 17 Dec 1839.
  17. Probate of the will of Ann Green, spinster (d 26 Jul 1844), of High Wycombe, granted to Henry Lyne and Edwin Harford, her cousins, and Grizzell Edmonds, her sister, 2 Nov 1844.
  18. Probate of will of Mary Rock, widow, (d 22 Jan 1850), of Crendon Lane, High Wycombe, granted to Mary Rock, her daughter, 9 May 1850.
Society of Friends
LMA/4336 · Collection · 1874-1953

Records of Goldington Crescent Presbyterian Church, later Somers Town Presbyterian Church, including Court of Session minute books, 1884-1953; Manager's Court minute books, 1884-1910; Annual reports, 1876-1915; Communicants' roll books, 1875-1953; register of baptisms, 1874-1951 and Treasurer's account book, 1875-1902. The Annual Report for 1881 includes a history of the church, 1843-1881.

Presbyterian Church of England
SOUTH HARROW CHURCH
ACC/3393/SH · Subfonds · 1935-1992

Records of South Harrow Methodist Church, 1935-1992, including membership roll; Leader's Meeting minutes; general correspondence; financial accounts; annual reports; papers regarding Trustees; papers regarding the construction of a new building; correspondence regarding staff members; pulpit notice book; Missionary Committee minutes; Women's Committee minutes; Youth Council minutes; Sunday School minutes and registers; Church newsletters and magazines; orders of service, programmes, leaflets and circulars; newspaper cuttings and an audio tape recording of the old organ being played.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
SOUTH RUISLIP CHURCH
ACC/3393/SR · Subfonds · 1944-1977

Records of South Ruislip Methodist Church, including order of service for stonelaying services, 1963; Disciples Roll book, 1944-1963; Abstainers Roll book (contains a leaflet giving information on abstaining and an order of service for the dedication of Sunday School teachers and youth workers), 1955-1958; collection journals, 1946-1976; Pulpit notice book, 1951-1977.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
SOUTHALL METHODIST CHURCH
ACC/1388-19 · Collection · 1952-1965

Registers of marriage, 1952-1965.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
SOUTHALL METHODIST MISSION
ACC/3142 · Collection · 1967-1968

Records of the Southall Methodist Mission and associated churches, 1967-1968, including General Committee minutes for the Southall and Uxbridge Mission; Quarterly Meeting minutes and a circuit schedule book for the Southall and Uxbridge Circuit and Quarterly Meeting minutes, circuit schedule book and Local Preachers' Meeting minutes for the Southall Mission.

Records of the King's Hall Methodist Church, Southall, including baptism registers, 1919-1952; Trustees Meeting minutes; Leader's Meeting minutes; membership rolls; collection journals and other financial papers; press cuttings; brochures and booklets; issues of the Church Magazine; photographs; papers relating to the Sunday School; papers relating to the Sisterhood and papers relating to the Women's Work Society.

Records of the Western Road Methodist Church, Southall, including baptism registers, 1937-1967; Trustee's Meeting mintues; financial accounts; membership rolls and photographs.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
ACC/2738 · Collection · 1982-1985

Marriage register of the Salvation Army Citadel, Adelaide Road, Southall, 1982-1985.

Salvation Army Citadel , Adelaide Road, Southall
ACC/1040 · Collection · 1789-1888

This collection consists of the papers and correspondence of James Hayward of Bridgewater, a wholesale confectioner, and one of the most energetic of Joanna's followers in the West Country, with a wide circle of correspondents throughout the country, 1789-1888. He also collected, during the middle and later nineteenth century, the papers of many other of Joanna's followers, most notably Edmund Baker, who was minister of a chapel held by the sect in Teddington, Middlesex from about 1809 to 1811, and later minister in Dowlish, Somerset. The collection includes a roll of members, and register book for the Teddington chapel and lists of members and signed testimonies from Dowlish and Ilminster. It also includes a large number of printed books by and concerning Joanna, many of them from the libraries of James Hayward and Edmund Baker.

Southcott , Joanna , 1750-1814 , prophet and writer Hayward , James , fl 1860-1890 , follower of Joanna Southcott Baker , Edmund , fl 1809-1845 , minister and follower of Joanna Southcott
ACC/2714 · Collection · 1902-1982

Records of Southfields Methodist Church, Wandsworth, 1902-1982, including register of baptisms; register of marriages; Leaders meetings minutes; Church Council minutes and correspondence; Society meetings minutes; minutes of Finance Committee; collection journals; Sunday School minutes and correspondence; youth work minutes and related papers; Sisterhood Committee minutes; correspondence relating to the building; deeds; plans; programmes; newsletters; pulpit notices; press cuttings and photographs.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
LMA/4092 · Collection · 1890-1979

Records of 'The Bourne', Southgate Methodist Church, 1890-1979, including Trustees meeting minute books and account books; Leader's meeting minutes; Society Steward account books; Missionary Committee meetings; pulpit notices; Sunday School minute book; Quarterly Circuit meeting minutes and other Circuit administrative papers including correspondence; collection journals; Finsbury Park and Southgate Circuit plans and directories and issues of Church newsletter 'Bourne Tidings'.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
N/C/42 · Collection · 1859-1884

Mortgage and lease for land in Old Deptford Road and Rotherhithe New Road, Rotherhithe, 1859-1860; resolution of special meeting of Southwark Park Congregational Church to raise £1000 on mortgage, 1884 and resolution of Trustees of Southwark Park Congregational Church to add Frank Vidler Catt and Edgar James Taylor to their number, 1884.

Congregational Church of England and Wales
N/M/042-11 · Collection · 1784-1890

Register of baptisms, 1838-1890; account books, 1784-1800, 1815-1834 and 1850-1861; Steward's account book, 1818-1839; Poor account book, 1822-1832; Minute book of the meetings of the Chapel Committee of Spitalfields Wesleyan Chapel, 1862-1877; Minute book of the meetings of the trustees of Globe Road Chapel, Spitalfields Circuit, 1822-1869.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
ACC/2111 · Collection · 1942-1977

Records of the Staines and Feltham Methodist Circuit, and of three constituent churches, Wendover Road Church, Egham; Virginia Water Church, Cabrera Avenue; and Victoria Street Church, Englefield Green, 1942-1977.

Staines and Feltham Methodist Circuit records include meeting minute books, trustees papers, financial accounts and registers of deeds. Wendover Road Church, Egham records include marriage registers, meeting minute book, financial accounts and a collection journal. Virginia Water Church, Cabrera Avenue records include minute books, correspondence, press cuttings, financial accounts, baptism certificate counterfoils and a collection journal. Victoria Street Church, Englefield Green records include minute books, financial accounts and collection journals.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
ACC/2618 · Collection · 1908-1956

Records of Staines Road Methodist Church comprising Treasurer's income and expenditure books and other financial accounts, 1908-1938 and Collection journal and society steward's record, 1937-1941. The income and expenditure books include insertions relating to the Bell Road Methodist Church, Hounslow and the Brentford and Hounslow Methodist Circuit, 1948-1956.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
N/M/010 · Collection · 1816-1923

Registers of baptisms, 1838-1921; register of marriages, 1870-1917; certificate of registration as a place of worship, 1854; certificate for solemization of marriages, 1870; Trustees minute books, 1816-1923; Executive Council minute book, 1917-1920; Leaders' Meeting minute book, 1903-1917 and Sunday School Teachers' Meeting minute book, 1915-1920.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
Stanton, Hannah
GB 0102 PP MS 54 · Created 1938-1993

Correspondence, diaries, photographs and papers relating to South Africa, 1938-1993, collected by Hannah Stanton. They include a large amount of correspondence concerning her campaign work on issues such as apartheid; journals covering her trips abroad and appointment diaries; speeches and sermons; material concerning Helen Joseph; and a large number of photographs of friends of Hannah Stanton.

Stanton , Hannah , 1913-1993 , missionary and anti-apartheid activist
STRATFORD CONFERENCE HALL
ACC/1850-16 · Collection · 1896

Certificate registering Stratford Conference Hall, West Ham Lane, West Ham for the solemnization of marriages, 1896.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
SUNBURY METHODIST CHURCH
ACC/2812 · Collection · 1948-1989

Records of Sunbury Methodist Church, 1948-1989, comprising Trustees treasurer's account book; pulpit notices books and architect's plans, elevations and so on of proposed church, church halls and subsequent extensions.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
GB 0074 ACC/2450 · Collection · 1866-1977

Records of the Surrey Tabernacle Benefit Society, including Management Committee minutes; subscriptions and benefits books; sick pay books; audited accounts; register of deaths; correspondence; and death benefit nominations.

Surrey Tabernacle Benefit Society
O/577 · Collection · 1871

Architectural plans, elevations and details of the West London Tabernacle, Holland Park, Kensington, by architects Habershon and Tite of 38 Bloomsbury Square, 1871.

West London Tabernacle , Penzance Place, Holland Park Habershon and Tite , architects
TEDDINGTON METHODIST CIRCUIT
ACC/1172 · Collection · 1861-1964

Records of the Teddington Methodist Circuit, 1861-1964, including Circuit Meeting minute books, Local Preacher minute books and circuit schedule books; and records of the Circuit's constituent churches including registers of baptism and marriage; minutes of various committees including Leader's Meeting minutes, Trustees Meeting minutes and Finance Committee minutes; financial accounts; magazines; correspondence regarding the building of a new chapel at Teddington, 1879; correspondence regarding rebuilding Teddington Methodist Church after bomb damage, 1944; correspondence, reports and plans regarding building a youth hall at the Methodist Church, Sunbury, 1954-1958; correspondence and plans relating to the building of a Methodist Church in Hampton, 1961-1964 and papers regarding the building of a Methodist Church in Hanworth, 1951-1962.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
ACC/0987 · Collection · 1802-1955

Records of the Staines Congregational Church, Thames Street, 1802-1955, including release in fee for parcel of land at Staines with newly built meeting house of the protestant dissenters known as Independents, 1802, with further endorsements relating to the appointment of new trustees, 1803-1867; mortgage for the Independent Chapel and yard, 1838; further mortgages and conveyances for the Independent Chapel, 1845-1879; appointment of new trustees, 1902 and 1923 and certificate issued to the Congregational (Independent) Church, Thames Street, Staines certifying it as a place of meeting for religious worship, 1925.

Congregational Church of England and Wales
LMA/4264 · Collection · 1936-1999

Records of the Needlework Guild, Congregational Church (later United Reformed Church), including minute books, 1936-1999; gift list, 1983-1999; account books, 1957-1999; expenses, 1969-1999; orders of service for annual dedication of gifts ceremonies, 1962-1998; booklet "The Story of the London Women's League of the London Congregational Union, 1909-1959" by Ann Oldfield, 1959 and typescript notes on the history of the Needlework Guild, 1913-1998, by Guild Secretary Phyllis Mitchell, 1998.

Congregational Church of England and Wales United Reformed Church
LMA/4423 · Collection · 1861-1974

Register of baptisms, 1861-1933; specifications and correspondence regarding the re-building of the Church, includes architect's floor plan, 1947-1948; Quarterly meetings minute book of the London Welsh Circuit, 1889-1908; Church committee minute book, 1908-1940; Church committee meeting minutes book, 1923-1955; Church committee meeting minute book regarding post war move of church, 1946-1963; Meeting minutes of the trustees and officers, 1953-1974; Memorandum of the choice and appointment of new trustees, 1950-1950 and Poland Street Trustees Account Book, 1884-1918. Please note that most of the minute books are written in Welsh.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
GB 0120 AMS/MF/3 · 19th century - 20th century

Microfilm of the letters and papers by or relating to Thomas Hodgkin MD (1798-1865) and his extended family, including his brother John Hodgkin junior (1800-1875) and the latter's father-in-law Luke Howard (1772-1864).

Hodgkin , Thomas , 1798-1866 , physician and philanthropist
GB 0102 MS 380311 · Created 1866-1906

Papers, 1866-1906, of and about John Boden Thomson and his wife Elizabeth, comprising letters, documents and press cuttings, relating to his education, work in Matabeleland and the Ujiji Mission.

Thomson , John Boden , 1841-1878 , missionary Thomson , Elizabeth , fl 1869-1880 , née Edwards , missionary
THORNTON, John (1720-1790)
GB 0074 ACC/2360 · Collection · 1768-1913

Personal diaries of John Thornton, merchant and member of the Clapham Sect. One journal has entries only on Sundays and records religious thoughts; while the others provide a record of daily events (including business, charitable activities and social events) interspersed with religious musings. Also drawing of the coat of arms of Lord Slane, described as an ancestor of the Thorntons.

The Sandhurst examination marks from 1913 (ACC/2360/005) appear to have no connection with the journals and the coat of arms.

Thornton , John , 1720-1790 , merchant and member of the Clapham Sect
Tierney Papers
GB 0103 MS ADD 384 · 1970-1984

Papers concerning the Catholic Apostolic Church and religion, including notes, correspondence and photographs. There are also three card indexes entitled 'Census paper A-Z', 'Subject index J-Z' and 'Churches'.

Tierney , David , d 1990 , historian
GB 0505 PP56 · 1690-2001

Papers relating to the careers of Kathleen and Geoffrey Tillotson, 1690-2001 comprise Records of Kathleen Tillotson (KT)'s teaching and administration in the English Department at Bedford College 1929-1971, with correspondence with members of staff and former students 1935-1994; records of her research and writing, including relations with publishing houses, 1932-1995; records of her work as specialist adviser to Government, the British Academy, the British Federation of University Women and others on honours and awards, to universities on appointments and promotions, to publishers on proposed works, etc, 1955-1995; correspondence with and references for fellow scholars, 1929-2001; records of her work with literary societies including the Wordsworth Trust and the Tennyson Society, 1961-2000; personal records including diaries, 1920, 1930s, 1961-2001, correspondence with friends and family, [c.1916]-2001; records, memorabilia and reminiscences of her upbringing and education, in Berwick-upon-Tweed and at Quaker Schools in Yorkshire.

Records of Geoffrey Tillotson (GT)'s teaching at University College, London, 1931-1941, and Birkbeck College, London, 1940s-1960s; records of his academic research and writing, 1932-1969, including notes and drafts for his Victorian volume of the 'Oxford History of English Literature'; poems and short stories; personal records including diaries, 1916-1969, correspondence with friends and family, 1930s-1960s; reminiscences and correspondence from the writing of the British Academy memoir of him by Mary Lascelles.

Kathleen Tillotson's 'old family papers', letters, journals and photographs, 1776-1916, inherited from her father's family, the Lambs of Belfast, and her mother's family, the Davidsons of Fritchley, Derbyshire, including copies of documents relating to history of the Society of Friends, such as Joseph Haughton's account of the 'preservation' of Quakers during the 1798 uprising in Ireland.

Tillotson , Professor , Kathleen Mary , 1906-2001 , Professor of English Literature Tillotson , Geoffrey , 1905-1969 , Professor of English Literature
Tippet, Charlotte
GB 0103 CIM/PP 27 · 1938

Typescript memoir by Charlotte F Tippet, 'Diversities of Operations', 1938, written at Chefoo, including her childhood and religious development and beliefs, nursing career, and missionary work and life in China (1902-1938), including medical, educational and evangelistic work.

Tippet , Charlotte F , fl 1902-1938 , missionary
N/C/17 · Collection · 1863-1919

Records of Tolmer's Square Congregational Chapel, Euston, Camden, comprising register of marriages and baptisms, 1863-1919, register of marriages, 1905-1918, and parish magazines, 1891.

Congregational Church of England and Wales
ACC/1105 · Collection · 1910-1944

Local Preachers' Meeting Minute Book containing minutes of quarterly meetings of local preachers of the Tottenham Circuit, 13 June 1910 - 4 December 1936; the Tottenham and Enfield Circuit, 5 March 1937 - 30 May 1941; and the Enfield Circuit, 5 September 1941 - 2 June 1944.

Please note that by the standard terms of deposit of the Methodist Church documents less than 60 years old (except pulpit notices, handbills, and other items already made public) are not to be produced without permission of the Superintendent Minister of the Circuit.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
N/C/57 · Collection · 1847-1851

Minutes of meetings of Young Men's Association, list of essays read at meetings, attendance register of Association, and minutes of preliminary meeting of Young Men's Prayer Meeting, 1847-1851.

Congregational Church of England and Wales
LMA/4321 · Collection · 1863-1939

Records of Saint John's Presbyterian Church including Court of Session minute books, 1865-1939; Church Manager's minute book, 1867-1875; Deacon's Court minute books, 1876-1939; Communicants' roll book, 1863-1938 and register of baptisms, 1868-1938.

Presbyterian Church of England
TREDEGAR ROAD CHURCH
ACC/1850-17 · Collection · 1866-1874

Wesleyan School Chapel Tredegar Road Trust Treasurer's account book, 1866-1874.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
ACC/1388-2 · Collection · 1889-1969

Registers of marriage, 1889-1969.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
N/C/38 · Collection · 1864-1918

Volumes containing membership rolls, 1870-1917, minute books of Church Meetings, 1864-1918, registers of marriages, baptisms and burials, 1887-1895 and 1901-1918; minute books of Deacons' meetings, 1878-1918.

Congregational Church of England and Wales