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From: "Elizabeth Pass" <>
Subject: Re: [DOR] Birth Information
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 17:02:06 +0100
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Hello Ginger,

This may give a little bit of clarification. I'm quoting from "An Album of
Old Poole" published by the Poole Historical Trust 1975, which has a
photograph and the following caption:-

The Unitarian Meeting House looking from Hill Street which was rebuilt in
1868. It was in place of the original building on this site erected in
1705 by the early Presbyterians. In 1760 the congregation quarrelled on a
point of religious doctrine concerning the Trinity. The pastor, the Rev. S.
Phillips, a confirmed 'Trinitarian', was locked out of the Church by the
'Unitarians' of his congregation and the Rev. Phillips and his followers
left the Hill Street Chapel to the 'Unitarians' and founded their own
independent Church.

And from "A History of Poole" by Cecil Cullingford, 1988:-

"... Martin Kemp ...led a group of non-Conformists who found themselves
expelled from the old Independent Chapel in Hill Street, when it was taken
over from the Unitarians. Martin and his Congregational friends set up a
chapel in Lag lane (Lagland Street). A new, imposing chapel was built in
1777 in Skinner Street ......"

Skinner Street Congregational Church still stands, and is in a side road off
Lagland Street. I think the "new" chapel was built behind the one set up by
Martin Kemp and friends. Hill Street Unitarian Meeting House was demolished
in my lifetime, probably in the early 1960's when much of Poole Old Town was
in the way of the developers. The Salvation Army Citadel was built almost
on the same site. Another church still in existence in Hill Street is the
Baptist Church.

I hope you find the answer to your query.

Liz Pass
(in Poole, Dorset)


----- Original Message -----
From: "gwarren" <>
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 12:06 AM
Subject: [DOR] Birth Information


>
> I have been given information that my gr-gr-gr-grandfather JAMES BRISTOWE
(husband of Antonia Coles) was christened 8 April 1790 at Poole Old Meeting
Hill Street-Presbyterian and that the death is recorded as 28 May 1852 with
Poole Congregational at Skinner Street. Is this normal for the birth to be
of one church and the death recorded in another?
>
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