Swaffham Primitive Methodist Circuit
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1813 to 1880 Baptism Project Swaffham Primitive Methodist Circuit |
Baptisms 1841 to 1880
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The Primitive Methodist Circuit based upon the market town of Swaffham was created in 1841 from the wider circuit based in King's Lynn, the circuit covered not just the town itself but also wider villages surrounding, particularly well represented in the records are villages such as Castle Acre, Rougham, the Dunhams, the Pickenhams and the Weasenhams as well as scattered records from as far away as Welney etc. The records deposited consist of Norfolk Record Office deposits FC61/22 & FC61/197. FC61/22 consists of two registers bound together, the majority of records being in a non-standard book in which entries of 10 per page are written across two pages with ruling to separate, several pages are abused by inserting multiple entries into each block making for tricky reading, although the circuit was created in 1841 there are a few back-dated entries within. Attached to the rear of this register is a stub of standard "parish-style" baptismal register which does not follow on in date sequence but has been created in parallel, neither portion is numbered, the numbers being added to aide relocation of an entry, those in the annexed register being prefixed with an "a". FC61/197 is another "parish-style" baptismal register which runs onwards to completion in 1906, numbering of this register is abandoned after the initial page but added again to aide relocation. Both registers are filmed on Microfilm MF1601 in the collection of Norfolk Record Office which was used to prepare this transcript, there are no digitised images for these registers. Circuit registers are characterised by being completed erratically by itinerant ministers adding their contributions periodically from their own note books and have a sequence which appears random as a result. As is also common with such registers spelling is often erratic and often phonetic, all names are left as written. Keen eyes will also note irregularities in the birth-dates there being errors in which the child appears to have been baptised before birth, users should exercise caution in using birth dates from these registers as "proof". |
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