Tracing Your Nonconformist Ancestors by Stuart A Raymond

Author:Stuart A Raymond
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2017-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

Many BMS archives have been microfilmed by the Southern Baptist Historical Society, and the films can be purchased. For a full list of microfilms available, visit:

• Southern Baptist Historical Society Finding Aids www.sbhla.org/finding_aids.asp Search ‘Baptist Missionary Society’.

For a detailed history of Baptist missionary endeavours, see:

• Stanley, Brian. The History of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1792-1992. (T. & T. Clark, 1992).

William Carey was one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society. For a huge amount of information about contemporary Baptists, a digital library of his writings, and an extensive bibliography, visit:

• Center for Study of the Life and Work of William Carey, D.D. (1761–1834) www.wmcarey.edu/carey

Baptist Periodicals

A wide variety of Baptist periodicals are available. Many are listed by Altholz (above, p.56), but a full listing of specifically Baptist journals is provided by:

• Taylor, Rosemary. ‘English Baptist periodicals, 1790-1865’, Baptist Quarterly 27(2), 1977, pp.50–82.

The aim of the General Baptist Repository (1802–59) was to make the scattered churches of the denomination better acquainted with each other. It was succeeded by the General Baptist Magazine (1860–91). The Baptist Magazine (1809–1904) was a semi-official Particular Baptist organ.

The Baptist Union has published an annual handbook since 1832, under various titles: Account of the proceedings of the annual sessions of the Baptist Union (1832–44), The Baptist Manual (1845–59), the Baptist Handbook (1860–1972) and the Baptist Union Directory (1978– ). This includes lists of member churches and their ministers, together with obituaries (see above for an index); it also includes a brief outline of Baptist history. Lists of Particular Baptist congregations were also occasionally published in The Baptist Magazine (see above), which also published alphabetical lists of ministers between 1851 and 1860. The General Baptists’ New Connexion issued the General Baptist Yearbook (1868–91).

For an earlier periodical which included lists of Baptist congregations, see:

• Baptist Annual Register, ed. John Rippon. (4 vols. 1790–1802). This is now available online at the Hathi Trust www.hathitrust.org/home and elsewhere.

Personal names in magazines from the Strict Baptist denomination are indexed in:

• Strict Baptist Personal Names database www.strictbaptisthistory.org.uk/pnsearch/searchpn.htm

An index to The Baptist Magazine is available to members of the Society of Genealogists at:

• What’s on SoG Data Online? www.sog.org.uk/search-records/whats-on-sog-data-online

Baptist Libraries and Record Offices

The Angus Library, at Oxford’s Regent’s Park College, is the principal repository of Baptist records. It holds the archives of the Baptist Union and the Baptist Missionary Society, together with the library of the Baptist Historical Society and papers from a variety of other Baptist organizations. Some Association and chapel records are held, although the majority of the latter are deposited in local record offices, if they are not still with the church. The library also holds the archives of Regents Park College, which include much information on past students who entered the ministry. See:

• The Angus Library and Archive http://theangus.rpc.ox.ac.uk The family history page on this site has details of over 5,000 Baptist missionaries.

The library’s catalogue is now incorporated in Oxford University’s Bodleian Library catalogue at http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. A printed catalogue published in 1908 may also be useful:

• Catalogue of the books, pamphlets & manuscripts in the Angus Library at Regent’s Park College, London.

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