The National Archives, ref. HO 129/489/56, (Religious Places Census) Lothersdale, Wesleyan: estimated attendance, Sunday 30th March 1851, morning 69, afternoon 102, evening 40.
Pre-1851 implication: a Wesleyan Chapel on same site or closely by at Wedding Hall Fold.
National Archives, ref. RG 4/3732, Lothersdale, Willinghall Fould [Wedding Hall Fold], baptisms 1782?, 1815-1837.*
O.S. map, ref. six inch scale, sheet 184, Lothersdale, etc., surveyed 1848 to 1850 , wedding hall fold, Methodist Chapel, Wesleyan.
O.S. map, ref. CLXXX1V. NE, Lothersdale, etc., surveyed 1892-3, Bethel Chapel.
Graveyard: burials pre- 1850s or start from c. 1851/2 to be confirmed.
The Burial Act 1852 : before then less problematic for non-Anglican burial sites.
update-
Cemetery/Bethel chapel graveyard : Extra rights provision to extend the already graveyard made possible by the Duke of Devonshire in 1871.
Bethel Chapel solemnized for marriages in 1884.
West Yorkshire Archive Service:
ref. BK79/221, receipt book for graves 1910-1957, Bethel Chapel, Lothersdale.
ref. BK79/237, treasure’s book, 1912-1939, Bethel Chapel, Lothersdale
ref. ID94/2, transcripts to include monumental inscriptions with name index compiled 1980s, Bethel Chapel, Lothersdale.
Other documents.
Bethel Chapel now a combined home and office (live in/work unit) c.2013, planning permission granted beforehand.
Bethel Chapel with graveyard/cemetery, Lothersdale, Yorkshire :
Date stone over front door 1851. The Ground Given by the Earl of Burlington.
Keighley Library, ref.BK79, Lothersdale, baptisms ( copy ) 1815-1837,* Bethel (added later : Methodist) Chapel.
The National Archives, ref. HO 129/489/56, (Religious Places Census) Lothersdale, Wesleyan: estimated attendance, Sunday 30th March 1851, morning 69, afternoon 102, evening 40.
Pre-1851 implication: a Wesleyan Chapel on same site or closely by at Wedding Hall Fold.
National Archives, ref. RG 4/3732, Lothersdale, Willinghall Fould [Wedding Hall Fold], baptisms 1782?, 1815-1837.*
O.S. map, ref. six inch scale, sheet 184, Lothersdale, etc., surveyed 1848 to 1850 , wedding hall fold, Methodist Chapel, Wesleyan.
O.S. map, ref. CLXXX1V. NE, Lothersdale, etc., surveyed 1892-3, Bethel Chapel.
Graveyard: burials pre- 1850s or start from c. 1851/2 to be confirmed.
The Burial Act 1852 : before then less problematic for non-Anglican burial sites.
update-
Cemetery/Bethel chapel graveyard : Extra rights provision to extend the already graveyard made possible by the Duke of Devonshire in 1871.
Bethel Chapel solemnized for marriages in 1884.
West Yorkshire Archive Service:
ref. BK79/221, receipt book for graves 1910-1957, Bethel Chapel, Lothersdale.
ref. BK79/237, treasure’s book, 1912-1939, Bethel Chapel, Lothersdale
ref. ID94/2, transcripts to include monumental inscriptions with name index compiled 1980s, Bethel Chapel, Lothersdale.
Other documents.
Bethel Chapel now a combined home and office (live in/work unit) c.2013, planning permission granted beforehand.