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Hi

Sorry, if you just go to the first part

http://www.highlittletonhistory.org.uk

and then chose 'Registers' from the menu on the left of the page
then scroll down to

HLWesleyan Baptisms1841 to 1955 & Index.pdf

it should download for you, but it gives no HILLIER Baptisms

I can say that the first Methodist Chapel in Midsomer Norton was built in 1775 following John Wesleys visit in 1767. It was rebuilt in 1859.

Tony E

Hi Les

My Gt Grandmother was at the orphanage you mention, as a pupil, when it first opened.

I was able to get some information and I suggest you write to

stmarychurchparish[at]btinternet.com

I'm fairly certain I found a website about the property but it was quite sometime ago

http://www.priory-primary.torbay.sch.uk/about/history.html

I notice you have connections to Hooper of Exborne, do you know if this family connects with a Dorothy Hooper of 1738 who married a Gabriel Cox at Iddesleigh in 1767?
Just part of my Maternal line.

Tony

Happiest
Finding my Paternal Gt Gt Grandfather, whose name was misinterpreted when he joined the Army.
That he served in Australia and New Zealand and returned to England with a Wife and three children

Saddest.
Finding that my Maternal Gt Gt Gt Grandfather who struggled to make a life for himself his wife and family, found that his life became so intolerable by his second Marriage and loss of a son and only daughter following closely the loss of his first Wife, that he took his own life.
His body being discovered  "hanging in the privy" by his 7 year old and youngest Son.

Tony

Hi RosemaryJoan

Have you seen Somerset Coalfield Connections
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=pjc4ax&op=SRCH&surname=CHIVERS,

There is a lot of info on Chivers there.

You may find details of the Farrington property at Somerset Records Office

TonyE