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Jennypeg
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Loscoe Baptist
replied on: 3/16/2006 9:07:01 AM

THE HERITAGE OF CODNOR AND LOSCOE
BY FRED S. THORPE
PAGE 161
Baptist Chapel Loscoe
The original Chapel was built in 1722, and a stone built into the front of the present building bears the inscription F. T. 1722”, which are believed to be the initials of Francis Tantum, an ancestor of Phoebe Tantum, mother of William Howitt. This stone was originally at the rear of the old Chapel. The old building was oblong in shape with the Gallery across the north end reached by a flight of steps on the outside, the pulpit being at the south end, Space at the front was used as a burial ground, and among those buried are:
GEORGE LILLEY, HANNAH RATCLIFFE, WILLIAM RATCLIFFE, JEREMIAH BROWN, WILLIAM BOSTOCK, EMANUEL FIDLER AND ANN FIDLER.

I've also found a wedding taking place there, from the marriage certificate:
The baptist Chapel Loscoe
20th March 1898
George Lilley 22 years bachelor Insurance Agent Loscoe Grange father William Lilley coal miner + Elizabeth Hogg 23 years spinster Loscoe father Thomas Hogg deceased colliery overman witnessed by John Lilley and Myra Lilley
but I've not seen any records for marriages baptisms or burials
Jenny

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