Hello Mark and all
It is a baptism and it is Royston old meeting house so from the information you lovely people
have given me, the baptisms are probably non conformists.
many many thanks
Sue Ault
Hi Sue
Pleased to have helped.
Definitely Nonconformists and Dissenters, known as Independents at that Royston Meeting House practicing baptism.
The RG (Registrar General) collected up surviving Nonconformist records in the late 1830s (about 1838 to 1840) and these were deposited by the RG in the Public Record Office renamed The National Archives, Kew.
Later Nonconformist Registers might still be with the Chapel, or their places of Deposit like County Archives & University Special Collections. The United Reformed Church HQ, I believe hold some more recent Registers of former Congregational Chapels, which later came under their umbrella, so as to speak.
The National Archives RG holdings for Royston ...
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_ep=royston&_cr=RG&_dss=range&_sd=1700&_ed=1840&_ro=any&_st=advI know these RG Nonconformist records are on Ancestry for Yorkshire. If you can't access them at home, your local Library or County Archive may subscribe to those family history site/s who have them online. You should also be able to access each Volume / Register from the "Card Catalogue" on Ancestry if you are familiar.
Of course, to view any original file at our The National Archives, Kew, (where no microfilm/fiche, or image exists), you will need a "Readers Ticket" and to get one of those you will need formal official original proofs of:-
i) who you are and
ii) where you live currently.
See their "Visit Us" online pages before going and check what notice to produce the required documents are required.
Hopefully, those in the link will be online.
If anyone gets back with Dissenting ancestors before Registers survive, you may find documents at the Dr Williams Library, London, or references in old histories (many published in the 19th Century) and Church of England Visitations (who were keeping a general eye on Nonconformist (NC) activities 18th Century and earlier too, as NC were taking people away from the Church of England). Some NC were also reported and thrown into Prison for their beliefs.
The John Rylands University Library (Archives) is another, holding NC documents and there are other Universities and Archives too holding NC records.
Mark