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From: "Robert Bartlett" <>
Subject: Re: [Cmn-L] Welsh Baptist Chapels
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 08:05:48 +0100
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I am sure that I should know the answer but ask a simple question!

If ancestors are ardent Baptists, does this mean that when they die there
will be no record within the "normal" parish registers and this could be why
I cannot find the deaths of Thomas and Catherine Bartlett from Bettws
towards the end of the 1800s?

Sincerely

Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Pauline James <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 6:41 PM
Subject: [Cmn-L] Welsh Baptist Chapels


> The Welsh Baptist Chapels
>
> This history of the Baptists in Carmarthen goes back to Cromwell's time
when
> itinerant preachers, inspired by John Miles, an ardent Baptist who has
> established a 'mother church' at Ilston in the Gower, visited the town.
> Early in 1651 several followers were baptised in Carmarthen and a few
months
> later the General Meeting of all the Baptist Churches in South Wales was
> held in the town. Arrangements were made for the future care of the
> Carmarthen Baptists - 'the brethren of the Church at Carmarthen......be
> desired to provide a chamber furnished, together with fire and candles,
for
> the use of our brethren that are to come thither to minister' However, in
> the persecution which followed the restoration of Charles II in 1660,
> Carmarthen Baptists were suppressed and scattered, many being imprisoned.
> There is no record of their existence for nearly another hundred years,
> though a tradition says that a number met secretly in a storehouse on the
> Quay and in small isolated groups in the country. In 1688 however, a
> Baptist Chapel was established in Rhydwilym, followed by one at
Ffynonhenri
> near Llanpumpsaint.....
>
> *********
> Pauline James
>
> ______________________________

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