The return from the Primitive Methodist society in Wallasey to the 1851 Census of Places of Public Religious worship shows they were meeting in a chapel erected in 1838. The report was completed by George Horbury, a preacher. The chapel held around 180 people, but the average attendance was 15 in the Sunday morning service and 30 in the evening.
Where was the chapel and what happened to it?
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Wallasey Village was a small township; I have not been able to find a chapel there. However, another small township that fell within the Wallasey parish was Poulton-cum-Seacombe and its first society built a chapel in 1838 . Could this be the chapel whose census return is given above? Some support comes from further evidence in the 1851 Census: the entry for George Horbury records that he was a widower aged 31 living in Poulton-cum-Seacombe (detailed address not given).
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