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Jennypeg
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grave site at the Chapel St.
replied on: 6/10/2005 9:00:02 AM

some more info on the chapel

Feb 1854 Ilkeston Pioneer
Marlpool Heanor – Extinction of the Chapel debt – On Wednesday evening, the 11th inst, a meeting was held in the Congregational Chapel in the above place, to celebrate the liquidation of the debt upon the chapel and schools. The chapel was erected in 1821, and by three successive enlargements will now accommodate 460 adults and 500 children; 400 of whom it has on its books. There is also a large burial ground connected with the place; the entire cost of the premises not having exceeded £1,100. In 1852, there was still a debt of £385, which the friends determined to use every effort to pay off by the end of 1855; the minister, the Rev. E. Leighton, engaged to raise £100 among distant friends; but by the liberality of one gentleman, in giving £25, and the cheerful contributions of Manchester friends, that £100 was so easily secured, that he engaged to get another £100, and the people resolved to pay up their instalments by the end of 1853, instead of 1855. The meeting was proceeded by a tea party of 350 persons, who were regaled principally at the expense of the ladies in the congregation, and who afterwards adjourned to the chapel, where after devotional services, they were addressed by the Rev. T. Clark, A. M. Classical Tutor of Rotherham College; the Rev. T. Mays, of Wigston Magna; T. Colledge, of Riddings; Mr Stewart, of Swanwick; and the Rev. G. Hoatson, of Ilkeston The proceedings of the evening were most cheering, and the speeches of a telling and most practical character; and though heartily congratulating the friends in having gathered such a cause in such a locality, amidst all their difficulties, the different speakers urged the friends at Marlpool to occupy the more populous fields around them, where, it is believed, a great amount of good may be effected.- Nottingham Review.
Jenny

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