BYU Studies Quarterly Volume 48 Issue 1 Article 6 1-1-2009 The Patterns of Missionary Work and Emigration in Early Victorian Buckinghamshire, England, 1849–1878 Ronald E. Bartholomew Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq Recommended Citation Bartholomew, Ronald E. (2009) "The Patterns of Missionary Work and Emigration in Early Victorian Buckinghamshire, England, 1849–1878," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 48 : Iss. 1 , Article 6. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol48/iss1/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in BYU Studies Quarterly by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. Bartholomew: The Patterns of Missionary Work and Emigration in Early Victorian The Patterns of Missionary Work and Emigration in Early Victorian Buckinghamshire, England, 1849–1878 Ronald E. Bartholomew atter-day Saint missionaries from America began proselyting in L Buckinghamshire, England, in the 1840s and established the first branches of the Church there in 1849, but they did not experience the same dramatic successes their colleagues encountered in other regions of the British Isles. Indeed, most of the baptisms in this more rural county came as a result of missionary work by local converts. Several factors help explain the Buckinghamshire experience, and in many ways missionary work in this region may actually be more representative of Church growth in other parts of the world than the phenomenal conversion rates experi- enced in certain more industrial areas of England in the middle to latter years of the nineteenth century.