That's My Boy!!!

[stanmapstone]

The chapelry included the whole township and liberty of Bilston which was in the peculiar jurisdiction of the deanery of Wolverhampton, and was a perpetual curacy in the patronage of the inhabitants at large. St. Leonard's Church, the original chapel of ease for Bilston, was rebuilt in 1825. As it was in the patronage of the inhabitants this explains the election of his son by the votes of the housekeepers.

Stan

[mazi]

He was there until his death in 1813, just beating his fathers record by two years, I imagine he saw a few changes in Bilston in those years.

Mike

[stanmapstone]

How true, I now know that Bilston, where he resigned from, is actually a chapelry of St Peters Collegiate church Wolverhampton, which was then a royal peculiar, I wonder where Darlaston comes into it.

Mike

Bilston itself was not a Royal Peculiar, the appointment of whose minister is directly in the hands of the Sovereign.

Stan

[stanmapstone]

Bilston revolted against the dean's appointment of clergy in 1730s and symbolised its independence of spirit by building its own chapel. The present St. Leonard's church replaced the 18th-century building in 1826.

Bilston revolted against the dean's attempts to impose a curate twice—in 1730 and 1735—and the congregation elected their own.

http://www.wonderfulwolverhampton.co.uk/businesses/st-peters-church/

Stan

[JAKnighton]

I love finding stuff like this. I don't know why, but we seem to have this instinctual feeling that people from a long time ago didn't feel the same emotions as us. Records like this disprove that.

[..claire..]

Yes it is nice when things like that are found, more so if it's about our own ancestors- puts meat on the bones if you know what I mean , gives a nice insight into how they thought and what kind of people they were.