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GB0031 NM9 Dorset History Centre This catalogue was digitised by The National Archives as part of the National Register of Archives digitisation project NRA 36417 The National Archives DORSET COUNTY ARCHIVES SERVICE CATALOGUE OF THE RECORDS OF THE WEYMOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT (REFERENCE NM.9) DORSET COUNTY COUNCIL 1993 NM.9 WEYMOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT CIRCUIT CONTENTS PAGES Cl WEYMOUTH WESLEYAN METHODIST, LATER WEYMOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT Registers 1 Membership 1 Ministers 2-3 Quarterly Meeting/Circuit Meeting 3-4 Local Preachers' Meeting 4 Committees of the Quarterly Meeting: 4 Worn-out Ministers' and Widows' Fund Other Organisations: 4 Missionary Society Circuit Trustees 4-5 Manse Trustees 5-8 Reports and Schedules 8 Weymouth and Portland Sunday School Union 9 Circuit History 9 Exhibitions 10 C2 WEYMOUTH PRIMITIVE METHODIST CIRCUIT Registers 11 Quarterly Meeting 11-12 Committees of the Quarterly Meeting: 12 Circuit Centenary Committee Other Organisations: 12 Missionary Committee Circuit Trustees 12 Manse Trustees Reports and Schedules 13 NM.9 WEYMOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT CHURCHES CONTENTS PAGES For Abbotsbury see S16 below 51 Broadwey Wesleyan Methodist Church 14-16 52 East Chaldon Wesleyan Methodist Church, 17 Chaldon Herring 53 Chickerell Wesleyan Methodist Church 18-20 For Dorchester see S17 below For Little Bredy see S18 below 54 Osmington Wesleyan Methodist Church 21 For Portesham see S19 below 55 Preston and Sutton Poyntz Wesleyan Methodist 22 Church 56 Upwey, The Ridgeway Wesleyan Methodist 23 Church 57 Weymouth, Conygar Lane [Lower Bond Street], 24-35 Later Maiden Street Wesleyan Methodist Church 58 Weymouth, Derby Street Wesleyan Methodist 36-37 Church 59 Weymouth, Lanehouse Rocks Methodist Church 38-40 510 Weymouth, Park Wesleyan Methodist Church 41 511 Weymouth, St Leonard's Road Primitive 42 Methodist Church Includes Marriage Register 512 Weymouth, Westham Wesleyan Methodist Church, Newstead Road 43-47 513 Winfrith Newburgh Wesleyan Methodist Church 48-49 Includes Baptism Register 514 Wyke Regis Wesleyan Methodist Church 50-51 515 Wyke Regis Primitive Methodist Church 52 516 Abbotsbury Wesleyan Methodist Church 53 517 Dorchester Primitive Methodist Church 54 518 Long Bredy Primitive Methodist Church 55 Includes Baptism register 519 Portesham Primitive Methodist Church 56 NM.9 WEYMOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT C CIRCUIT Cl WEYMOUTH WESLEYAN METHODIST, LATER WEYMOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT Weymouth became a Wesleyan Methodist Circuit in 1805. It included Poole until 1809 and Dorchester until 1831. In 1932 i t amalgamated with the Primitive Methodist Circuit to form the Weymouth Methodist Circuit. Records after 1932 refer to this circuit RE Registers Cl/RE 1 BAPTISMS Cl/RE 1/1 Baptism register (1 vol) 1796-1838 [Weymouth was the chief Circuit in southern Dorset and included Poole until i t separated in 1809, Dorchester in 1831 and Portland in 1857. This register includes these areas until they separated to form their own circuit] Cl/RE 1/2 Baptism register (1 vol) 1838-1913 Cl/RE 1/3 Baptism register (1 vol) 1913-1932 MR Membership Cl/MR 1 REMOVAL REGISTERS Cl/MR 1/1 Removal register (1 vol) 1879-1881, 1887-1895 Cl/MR 2 MEMBERSHIP ROLLS Cl/MR 2/1 Membership roll book: Western Section (1 vol) 1976-1979 Cl/MR 2/2 Membership roll book: Western Section 1979-1984 1 NM.9 WEYMOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT C CIRCUIT Cl WEYMOUTH WESLEYAN METHODIST, LATER WEYMOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT MS Ministers Cl/MS 1 CIRCUIT PLANS For Circuit plans 1830 and 1938 see NM.9:C1/MI 2/1 Cl/MS 1/1 Circuit plan (1 doc) 1887 Cl/MS 1/2 Circuit plans (3 docs) 1895-1897 Cl/MS 1/3 Circuit plans (2 docs) 1905-1908 Cl/MS 1/4 Circuit plans (3 docs) 1913-1915 Cl/MS 1/5 Circuit plans (8 docs) 1966-1969 Cl/MS 1/6 Circuit plans (23 docs) 1970-1977 Cl/MS 2 YEAR BOOKS AND DIRECTORIES Cl/MS 2/1 Year book and directory (5 docs) 1950-1958, 1961 Cl/MS 2/2 Directories (2 docs) n.d. [1970s] Cl/MS 2/3 Directory (1 doc) 1989-1990 Cl/MS 3 NOTICES AND PROGRAMMES Cl/MS 3/1 Ye Merie England Bazaar programme (1 doc) 1904 Cl/MS 3/2 Centenary brochure report (1 doc) 1968 Cl/MS 3/3 Notice concerning the Spearhead campaign (1 doc) 1974 Cl/MS 4 ORDER OF SERVICES Cl/MS 4/1 Order of service to commemorate the union of the Wesleyan, Primitive and United Methodist churches to form The Methodist Church (1 doc) 1932 Cl/MS 4/2 Order of service to commemorate the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth With the Methodist Recorder Coronation Supplement (3 docs) 1937 Cl/MS 4/3 Order of service to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (1 doc) 1953 2 NM.9 WEYMOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT C CIRCUIT WEYMOUTH WESLEYAN METHODIST, LATER WEYMOUTH Cl METHODIST CIRCUIT Ministers MS CERTIFICATES Cl/MS 5 Certificates authorising ministers to carry out Cl/MS 5/1 marriages at various chapels in the circuit (6 docs) 1946-1948 [CLOSED UNTIL 1999] Cl/MS 6 MAGAZINES Cl/MS 6/1 Youth (5 docs) 1957 Cl/MS 6/2 Children: The Family Magazine of the National Children's Home (1 doc) 1957 Cl/MS 6/3 The Kingdom overseas (2 docs) 1968-1969 Cl/MS 6/4 Now: The Methodist Missionary Society (2 docs) 1970 Cl/MS 7 CHURCH RESTRUCTURING Cl/MS 7/1 Memorandum explaining the Methodist Conferences proposals of restructuring the church organisation (1 doc) n.d. [cl977] Cl/MS 8 NEWSPAPER ARTICLES Cl/MS 8/1 Newspaper cutting from The Dorset Evening Echo giving a profile of the Revd D Perry of Weymouth Circuit (1 doc) 1990 QM Quarterly Meeting/Circuit Meeting Cl/QM 1 MINUTES Cl/QM 1/1 Minute book (1 vol) 1826-1828, 1843-1858 Cl/QM 1/2 Minute book (1 vol) 1858-1870 Cl/QM 1/3 Minute book (1 vol) 1870-1888 Cl/QM 1/4 Minutes 1902-1909 Including: Ministerial Committee Minutes 1903-1909 Synod Reception Committee Minutes 1907 (1 vol, 2 docs) 1902-1909 3 NM.9 WEYMOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT C CIRCUIT Cl WEYMOUTH WESLEYAN METHODIST, LATER WEYMOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT QM Quarterly Meeting/Circuit Meeting Cl/QM 1 MINUTES (cont) Cl/QM 1/5 Minutes 1909-1919 Including: Ministerial Committee Minutes 1909-1915 Circuit Finance Committee Minutes 1910-1915 (1 vol) 1909-1919 Cl/QM 1/6 Minute book (1 vol) 1928-1933 Cl/QM 1/7 Minutes Including: Circuit Committee Minutes (1 vol) 1933-1946 [CLOSED UNTIL 1997] Cl/QM 1/8 Minutes Including: Circuit Committee Minutes (1 vol) 1946-1969 [CLOSED UNTIL 2010] Cl/QM 1/9 Minutes Including: General Purposes Committee Circuit Committee Minutes (1 vol, 1 doc) 1969-1987 [CLOSED UNTIL 2038] [The Quarterly Meeting was replaced by the Circuit Meeting in 1974, as part of the reorganisation of the Methodist Church Structure] Cl/QM 2 CIRCUIT STEWARD'S ACCOUNTS Cl/QM 2/1 Account book (1 vol) 1865-1885 Cl/QM 2/2 Accounts 1885-1908 Including: Summaries 1865-1890 Newspaper cuttings for the Portsmouth District Synod meeting 1898 (1 vol) 1885-1908 Cl/QM 2/3 Account book (1 vol, 2 docs) 1914-1935 Cl/QM 2/4 Account book (1 vol) 1936-1958 [CLOSED UNTIL 2009] Cl/QM 2/5 Account Book (1 vol) 1958-1968 [CLOSED UNTIL 2019] 4 NM.9 WEYMOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT C CIRCUIT Cl WEYMOUTH WESLEYAN METHODIST, LATER WEYMOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT LP Local Preachers' Meeting Cl/LP 1 MINUTES Cl/LP 1/1 Minute book (1 vol) 1877-1889 Cl/LP 1/2 Minute book (1 vol) 1889-1913 Cl/LP 1/3 Minute book (1 vol) 1913-1928 Cl/LP 1/4 Minute book (1 vol) 1928-1933 Cl/LP 2 LOCAL PREACHERS' ACCOUNTS [HORSE HIRE ACCOUNTS] Cl/LP 2/1 Account book (1 vol, 4 docs) 1901-1940 CO Committees of the Quarterly Meeting Cl/CO 1 WORN OUT MINISTERS' AND WIDOWS' FUND Cl/CO 1/1 ACCOUNTS Cl/CO 1/1/1 Account book (1 vol) 1899-1963 AO Other Organisations Cl/AO 1 MISSIONARY SOCIETY Cl/AO 1/1 Missionary account book With a list of anthems (1 vol) 1865-1878 Cl/AO 2 BOURNEMOUTH CIRCUIT TEMPERANCE SOCIETY: WEYMOUTH BRANCH Cl/AO 2/1 Abstainers' roll (1 vol) 1948-1954 [CLOSED UNTIL 2005] TS Circuit Trustees/Property Cnwmi 1-tP.e Cl/TS 1 TRUSTEES' MEETING MINUTES Cl/TS 1/1 Minute book (1 vol) 1871-1929 Cl/TS 1/2 Minute book (1 vol) 1930-1986 [CLOSED UNTIL 2037] [The Trustees were replaced by the Circuit Property Committee in 1973, as part of the reorganisation of the Methodist Church Structure] NM.9 WEYMOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT C CIRCUIT Cl WEYMOUTH WESLEYAN METHODIST, LATER WEYMOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT TS Circuit Trustees/Property Cnmmf ttaa Cl/TS 2 LICENCES AND INSURANCE POLICIES Cl/TS 2/1 Licence granted to the circuit for all musical entertainments with an enquiry (2 docs) 1937, 1972 Cl/TS 2/2 Insurance policies for the churches in the circuit (4 bundles) 1941-1942 Cl/TS 3 PROPERTY CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS Cl/TS 3/1 Plan of Weymouth showing the location of churches and the proposed alternative sites for Maiden Street and St Leonards Road churches (2 docs) n.d. Cl/TS 3/2 Correspondence and papers concerning various properties belonging to the Circuit including Maiden Street (1926); the renovation account for St Leonards (1932-1933); the sale of Dorchester Primitive Methodist Church (1933); Weymouth Primitive Methodist Circuit account (1934); loan account (1934), Cattistock renovation account (1934) and the Manse Trust account (1934) (22 docs) 1926-1934 MT Manse Trustees Cl/MT 1 WESLEYAN METHODIST MANSE: ABBOTSBURY ROAD THEN RUSSEL AVENUE Cl/MT 1/1 MINUTES Cl/MT 1/1/1 Minute book (1 vol) 1931-1937 [concerning the sale of Hazeldene, 16 Abbotsbury Road and the purchase of a new Manse House in Russel Avenue] Cl/MT 1/1/2 Minute book With list of trustees 1937 (1 vol) 1937-1958 [CLOSED UNTIL 2009] Cl/MT 1/1/3 Minute book (1 vol) [CLOSED UNTIL 2027] 1958-1976 6 NM.9 WEYMOUTH METHODIST CIRCUIT C CIRCUIT WEYMOUTH WESLEYAN METHODIST, LATER WEYMOUTH Cl METHODIST CIRCUIT Manse Trust MT Cl/MT WESLEYAN METHODIST MANSE: ABBOTSBURY