Little Gonerby Primitive Methodist chapel
There’s a note in the Primitive Methodist magazine of 1886 about the laying of the foundation stones for a much needed chapel at Little Gonerby in the Grantham station.
Little Gonerby itself is somewhat elusive, let alone the chapel. Historically it is linked to Manthorpe as Little Gonerby cum Manthorpe and then Manthorpe cum Little Gonerby. In practice it is the northern part of Grantham.
Where was the chapel and what happened to it?
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Extra to my previous posting.
Lincolnshire Archives, Lincoln :
ref. MLI 99286, former Primitive Methodist Chapel, Broad Street, Little Gonerby, Grantham.
ref. Meth/C/Grantham, Broad St./E/3/1, estimate for building work, 1884. *
*this is actually Little Gonerby PM Chapel, a parish boarder area.
Lincolnshire Archives, Lincoln :
WW1 : Cyril Selby, died 29th July 1917 ( born Great Gonerby ), but Little Gonerby Primitive Methodist Chapel/Church he attended.
https://www.lincstothepast.com/PersonDetails.aspx?objectid=1563141
I wonder if this could be it? https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI99347
I looked up Little Gonerby Congregationalist Chapel because it is where Samuel Antliff D.D. married Judith Norris, my great, great-aunt in 1846 (I have their marriage cert). I thought it was interesting that they married in a Congregationalist Chapel. He is styled as “Dissenting Minister” under rank or profession on the certificate.
Might of course be an entirely different place – I’m not knowledgeable enough to know whether there was a relationship between Primitive and Free Methodism at the time? Perhaps you know?
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