GB 0085 DD/370 Hammersmith and Fulham Archives and Local History Centre This catalogue was digitised by The National Archives as part of the National Register of Archives digitisation project NRA 23167 The National Archives H. M. C. £ tr 1 0 NATIONAL REGISTER OF ARCHIVES ACCESSION NUMBER: 370 SHORT TITLE: Records of the Hammersmith Circuit of the Methodist Church REFERENCEj DD/370/1-717 PROVENANCE". Deposited on permanent loan by the Revd. R.K. Parsons, 1A Melrose Gardens, London W.6, July 1973-August 1974 Note The records listed here were deposited in accordance with the Methodist Conference Standing Order 258(4). Records relating to events which took place less than 60 years ago may not be produced for study without the permission of the Superintendent of the Hammersmith Circuit. DD/370 contains records of circuits succeeded by the Hammersmith Circuit in 1969* which have been listed first, and of constituent: chapels. Further information concerning the circuits and chapels included here can be found in A Note on the Hammersmith Circuit and the Walham Green and Fulham Circuit of the Methodist Church produced by the Archives Department. CIRCUIT RECORDS Hammersmith Wesleyan Circuit (formerly Brentford Circuit, 1811-1818) Ref. Date Description DD/370/ 1 Aug. 1811­-1836 Lists of society members and subscription lists 2 Oct. 1811-Dec. 1836 Minutes of Quarterly Meetings 3 Mar. 1837-Dec. 1871 Minutes of Quarterly Meetings 30 June 1860 Pasted at backs declaration Adam Walker Agrees to take gas fittings, forms and matting in room formerly used as a Wesleyan Chapel in lieu of rent owed to him 2. Ref. Date Description DD/370/ Hammersmith Wesleyan Circuit (cont.) 4 Oct. 1811-Apr. 1822 Quarterly Meeting accounts 5 Volume containing; July 1822-Jan. 1825 Quarterly Meeting accounts Sep. 1842-Sep. 1843 Draft minutes of Local Preachers' quarterly meetings June 1829-Oct. 1829 List of "burials at the Wesleyan Chapel [Waterloo St.] 6 [Mar.]l825-[Dec.]1853 Quarterly Meeting accounts Pasted at fronts . ...1850 (l) Inventory of linen at preacher1 s hous e, Hammersmith ND (2) Note Address of ladies from whom £100 is borrowed by Circuit Stewards 2 5 Sep. 1843 (3) Letter William Barton, 2 Chesterfield St., King's Cross [co. Middsx.] to Revd. W[illiam] Naylor, [Wesleyan Chapel], Waterloo St., Hammersmith Recites text of minutes of committee appointed to consider financial state of society and chapel at Richmond, 17 July 1843 7 [Mar.]1854-[Dec.]1889 Quarterly Meeting accounts 8 Apr. 1813-June 1832 Society Steward's quarterly accounts 9 Mar. 1816-Mar. 1859 Minutes of Local Preachers' quarterly meetings 10/1-9 10/1 Oct. 1838-Mar. 1871 Minutes of annual United Trustees meetings? contains schedules of information concerning Trust properties 3. Ref. Date Description DD/370/ Hammersmith Wesleyan Circuit (cont.) 10/1-9 (cont.) 10/2 25 Feb. 1840 Copy minutes of meeting of Trustees at Twickenham Chapel 10/3-8 Statistical summaries of Wesleyan Trust property 10/3 ND[?1866] Acton (year ending Dec. 1865) 10/4 ND[?1866] Twickenham (year ending Dec. 1865) 10/5 ND[?1866] Brentford (year ending ^865) 10/6 ND Hammersmi th 10/7 ND 7 Harrow 10/8 ND Feltham 10/9 Jan. 1880 Note concerning income of the chapel fund 11/1-4 11/1 ND[1853] Account for travelling expenses incurred on journey from Guernsey to Brentford [Revd.] James H. Rigg 11/2 8 Nov. 1861 Schedule of information concerning Trust properties 11/3 12 Apr. 1881 Returns of Wesleyan Chapels and preaching places in Hammersmith Circuit 11/4 1881 Statistical information concerning chapels in circuit 12-13 1859-1860 Statistical summaries of the Wesleyan Chapel and other Trust property, as reported at Trustees' annual meetings 14 1837-1845 Circuit schedule book; contains ;\ quarterly and annual schedules, subscription lists and lists of Circuit, Society and Poor Stewards Ref. Date Description DD/370/ Hammersmith Wesleyan Circuit (cont.) 15/1-3 15/1 Mar. 1930-Mar. 1933 Sunday school schedule book (years ending Dec. 1929-Dec. 1932) 15/2 8 Mar. 1934 Sunday school schedule (year ending Dec. 1933) 15/3 ND Directions to Sunday school secretaries re schedules Methodist Church Sunday School Department, Ludgate Circus House, London EC4 16/1-6 16/1 Mar. 1935-Mar.[l939] Sunday school schedule book (years ending Dec. 1934-Dec. 1938) 16/2 11 Feb. 1934 Letter Ernest D. Goddard, 49 Wavendon Ave., Chiswick, W.4 to Miss [D.N.] Underdown, [4 St. Mary's Grove, Chiswick, W.4] Reports visits to Sutton Court and Munster Park Sunday schools 16/3 3 Mar. 1937 Letter Henry Garlick, 19 Barrowgate Rd., Chiswick, W.4 to Mr. [H.] Coombe, [21 Rosaville Rd., Fulham] Is grateful for his appointment as visitor; regrets that he was a disappoint­ ment last year and will strive to make amends 16/4 28 Feb. 1939 Letter [Miss] D.N. Underdown, 4 St. Mary's Grove, [ihiswick] W.4 to 5. Ref. Date Description DD/370/ Hammersmith Wesleyan Circuit (cont.) 16/1-6 (cont.) 16/4 (cont.) Mr. [H,] Coombe, [21 Rosaville Rd., Fulham] Requests details of Sunday school numbers; balance in hand is £1 4s 16/5 ND List of officers and representatives Strand-on-Green Mission School, Brooks Lane, Chiswick, W.4 16/6 ND List of officers and representatives Sutton Court Methodist School, Sutton Court Rd., [Chiswick] W.4 17 1841-1895 Preachers' fund collections 18 Oct. 1841-^.1864 Missionary Society accounts Apr. 1861 At backs list of secretaries to the Missionary Society 19 JI858-Dec. 1865 Hammersmith Auxiliary Branch of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society accounts 20 4 Sep. 1835 Notes concerning financial state of chapels in the circuit 21 24 Sep. 1836 Certificate William Kelk, Hammersmith, Wesleyan minister to Bishop of London and his Registrar House of Noble Parsons, Clove's Alley, Barnes Terrace, Hammersmith is to be used as a place of worship for Wesleyans 28 Sep. 1836 Endorsed; memorandum Joseph Shephard, Diocesan Registrar Certificate described above has been entered in the Diocesan Registry 6. Ref. Date Description DD/370/ Hammersmith Wesleyan Circuit (cont.) 22 30 Sep. 1836 Certificate William Kelk, Hammersmith, Wesleyan minister to Bishop of London and his Registrar A room on the premises of Edward Ford, High St., Fulham is to be used as a place of worship for Wesleyans 3 Oct. 1836 Endorsed; memorandum Joseph Shephard, Diocesan Registrar Certificate described above has been entered in the Diocesan Registry 23/1-3 23/1/1-2 23/1/1 .1852 Bill for 9s 1. William Henry Sanders, collector 2. Revd. John [Jacob] Morton 2 quarters' inhabited house duty 23/1/2 30 Mar. 1853 Receipt for 9s [Revd.] Jacob Morton House tax 23/2 4 Nov. 1853 Receipt for 9s 4^d 1. William Akhurst, collector 2. Mr. [John] Braithwaite, [Circuit Steward] for Revd. Thomas Stokoe House duty 23/3 7 Feb.[1854] Receipt for 12s Od 1. William Henry Sanders, collector 2. Revd. j[ames] H. Rigg Highway rate, par. Ealing [co. Middsx. 24 1895 Circuit plan (July 1895-Oct. 1895) 7. Ref. Date Description DD/370/ Hammersmith Primitive Methodist Circuit (formerly Brentford Mission of the Reading Circuit Note; Minutes of Local Preachers' meetings are included in Quarterly Meeting, minutes. In the Primitive Methodist Church the Local Preachers' meeting normally preceded the Quarterly Meeting and the meetings were regarded as one; the point at which the Quarterly Meeting began is denoted in the minutes by the heading 'Full Board' 25 Volume containing? Dec. 1843-Mar. 1844; Mar. 1848-Sep. 1850 Quarterly Meeting accounts Mar. 1848-Dec. 1857 Minutes of Quarterly Meetings July 1848-Oct. 1852 Minutes of Committee meetings Sep. 1848-Sep. 1856 Copy correspondence from General Missionary Committee Apr. 1850-June 1852 Minutes of Leaders' meetings Dec. 1853-Jan. 1858 Minutes of Sub-Committee 26 Dec. 1850-Dec. 1871 Quarterly Meeting accounts 3 Mar. 1851 Pasted at fronts chapel schedule Hammersmith Chapel. 27 Sep. 1882-June 1902 Minutes of Quarterly Meetings 5 July 1902 At backs lists of Trustees of Dalling Rd. and Bayonne Rd. Chapels 28/1-2 28/1 Sep. 1902-Sep. 1927 Minutes of Quarterly Meetings 28/2a-c ND List of Trustees of Dalling Rd. Chapel, schools and 11, 12 and 13 Furber St., Hammersmith, appointed at the Quarterly Meeting (6June 1903) 29 June 1912-Dec. 1931 Quarterly Meeting accounts 8. Ref. Date Description DD/370/ Hammejrsmith Primitive Methodist Circuit (cont.) 30/1-3 30/1 Volume containing minutes ofs Dec. 1927-June 1933 Quarterly Meetings Sep. 1933-Dec. 1954 Dalling Rd. Chapel Leaders' meetings 30/2 28 Aug. 1936 Circular letter from Percy Vincent, Lord Mayor, The Mansion House, London S.C.4 Asks that collections on King George Memorial Sunday 13 Sep. be devoted to the King George National Memorial Fund 30/3 ND[?Mar. 1936] Draft tribute to Councillor H[arry] j[ohn] May, J.P. who died on 28 Feb. 1936 [probably intended for minutes of Leaders' meeting of 12 Mar. 1936, but not entered] 31/1-3 31/1 Register of baptisms ats Aug. 1849-June 1937 Hammersmith July 1849-Oct. 1860 Chelsea, co. Middsx. Jan. 1849-Nov. 1856 Old Brentford, Ealing, co. Middsx. Oct. 1849-May 1874 Wandsworth, co. Surr. Nov. 1850-May 1856 Bayswater, co. Middsx. Nov. 1849-Feb. 1858 Battersea, co. Surr., Hammersmith and Feltham [co. Middsx.] Mar. 1850-Dec. 1860 Chelsea, co. Middsx. and Brentford, co. Middsx. ^1857-^3^. I864 [Hammersmith and Chelsea, co. Middsx.] July 1850-May 1859 Heston (at Lampton), co. Middsx. Apr. 1856-Apr. 1879 Battersea, co. Surr. Sep. 1858 New Hampton, co. Middsx. Aug. 1858-May 1865 Kensington, co. Middsx. Nov. 1859 Bloomsbury, co. Middsx. Feb. 1860-June 1892 Acton, co.