High Wycombe Primitive Methodist chapel

Return from High Wycombe (ii) Primitive Methodist chapel in the 1851 Census of Places of Public Religious Worship
Provided by David Tonks
Return from High Wycombe (i) Primitive Methodist chapel in the 1851 Census of Places of Public Religious Worship
Provided by David Tonks

Some of the early history of High Wycombe Primitive Methodist chapel is shown in the The Primitive Methodist magazine. The November 1848 magazine  contains a report by Thomas Williams of the opening of the chapel on September 3rd 1848. Thirteen years later, in the 1861 magazine,  M Wilson tells us about the re-opening of the chapel after it  had been enlarged and a school room added.

At the re-opening services preachers included Revs. J. Hayden, E. Foizey, Messrs Hunt, Revs. T.H. Browne, D. Pledge and D. Kendall.  Donors included Sir George Dashwood, M.P., Martin T. Smith, Esq-, M.P. and T. Wheeler.

The 1875 Ordnance Survey map marks a Primitive Methodist chapel on Frogmoor.  Was that this chapel?

It might not be, because the 1851 Census of Places of Public Religious Worship has two reports of Primitive Methodist chapels in High Wycombe.

The 1897 Primitive Methodist magazine reports that the friends at Westbourne Street in the High Wycombe station were working hard to obtain the funds to erect a more commodious place of worship.

Reference

Primitive Methodist magazine November 1848 page 693

Primitive Methodist magazine February 1861 page 118

Primitive Methodist magazine 1897 page 233

 

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  • Amongst the entries for Primitive Methodist ministers on this site are pages for both Edward Tocock (which you have seen already) and Murray Wilson. I wonder why Rev Tocock left the ministry?

    By Christopher Hill (18/08/2023)
  • In searching on Ancestry (today) I was tracing my family back through the Hunt family line. My Great Great Grandfather, the Rev Edward Tocock was a Primitive Methodist Minister (1853 in H.W. I think) and married a Sarah Elizabeth Hunt in High Wycombe. I have his bible which is inscribed with gold lettering on the front, that it was a gift from the P.M. Chapel of High Wycombe Sunday School. Anyway I found his wife’s mother on the 1861 Census and I happened to notice that the next family entry (next door neighbours) was for a Primitive Methodist Minister of High Wycombe Chapel. A strange name of Munay Wilson (maybe Murray?) He was not local – his place of birth was the Isle of Man and his wife Caroline was born in Salop Shrewsbury. You may of course know all this already but I found it interesting that Sarah Elizabeth Hunt as a teenager was living next door to a P. M. Minister and later married one herself. The Rev Tocock continued his missionary work fom High Wycombe – first to Ireland where my mother’s grandfather was born in Tyrone and later on to Rochdale where a couple more children were born. He eventually ended up in Paddington where the family settled and we all became ‘Londoners’! Isn’t history fascinating!

    By Gabrielle Ross (18/08/2023)

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