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Showing posts with label Wesleyan Methodism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wesleyan Methodism. Show all posts
Saturday, 28 March 2020

Thomas Mease & John Wesley's umbrella

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A chance find reveals that Thomas Mease of Stokesley (1792-1862) was once the owner of John Wesley's green silk umbrella: Northampto...
Friday, 2 August 2013

Laying the foundation stones for the Wesleyan Chapel, Hutton Rudby in 1878

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I particularly like the thought of them enjoying their "sumptuous tea" at the end of the proceedings: Northern Echo : Monday 5 ...
Monday, 31 December 2012

Chapter 21. "My intense exertions"

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In Mr Barlow's notebooks we can catch a glimpse of his interests and activities in the latter part of his life.  In the Middleton Book...
Friday, 28 December 2012

Chapter 18. The early 1850s

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In 1851, some months after her marriage, Marian Digby Beste and her new family left the country.  They sailed for the United States in a lar...
Thursday, 20 December 2012

Chapter 14. Deaths, Changes & Recession: 1837 to 1842

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On 20 June 1837 King William IV died.  It was a personal grief to his daughter Amelia, Lady Falkland, who had lost her sister Sophia in chil...
Sunday, 16 December 2012

Chapter 10. 1831: Mr Barlow's first year in Hutton Rudby

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The area around his new home would have had much to interest Robert Barlow's lively mind.  He had a great interest in the physical world...
Friday, 7 December 2012

Chapter 1. Hutton Rudby: a North Riding Township

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Revd R J Barlow c1804-78 Very early in January 1831, a young Irish clergyman named Robert Joseph Barlow arrived in the Yorkshire village...