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Subject: [D-G LIST] A question on churches
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 12:39:08 EDT

Hello

I have finally got around to reading the Statistical Accounts for various
parishes that I printed off some months ago. I have really enjoyed these and
would thank the lister who first mentioned them.

Anyway, in the 1791-9 account for St. Mungo, under the Ecclesiastical State,
I have found reference to 'the English Chapel', which got me thinking. In
some snippets of old family letters from Annan to America in the early 1900s,
there is mention that my husband's ancestor (1) attended the English chapel,
and (2) played the organ at the High Church of England, Annan. I have no
idea which church(es) these comments could refer to. This ancestor first
appears, married to a woman born in Cummertrees, in 1841 in
Kirkpatrick-Fleming and thereafter in Annan (having been born in Liverpool in
1800) and I have not found his marriage - apparently records for the supposed
relevant parishes no longer exist. He died in Annan in 1871 but in these
family letters in America there is also information of a tombstone and its
inscription, for him, his wife and 3 of their children, being erected in St.
Mungo. This tombstone is the first mention of St. Mungo in this family.

Does anyone know whether it is therefore likely that the family would have
attended a church in St. Mungo as opposed to Annan, as I had previously
thought?

And what is an English Chapel? Would it have been Church of England? Who
would have been in charge? Or was it some sort of independent or affiliated
church?

And if we are talking two separate churches here, does anyone know what/where
'the high Church of England, Annan' was?

Thank you for your time.

Carol

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