Hamsteels and Quebec 1870-1890

[hanes teulu]

Would it be the Durham and Deerness Valley Circuit?

[JenB]

Would it be the Durham and Deerness Valley Circuit?

Durham and Deerness Valley Methodist Circuit was formed by an amalgamation of Brandon and Deerness Valley Methodist Circuit and Durham Methodist Circuit in 1972 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F140098

[JenB]

There is an article in the Northern Echo 28th September 1885 recording the establishment of a Wesleyan Chapel in Esh, which is very close to Quebec.

The circuit ministers were recorded as S Adcock amd T G Moscrop.

According to the Hall's Circuits book they were ministers in the Crook Circuit 1884 - 1885.

So possibly Quebec and Hamsteels were also in the Crook Circuit?

[JenB]

This doesn't actually prove that Quebec and Hamsteels were in Crook Circuit but maybe...

[JenB]

And another.....

[AlanBoyd]

Yes, I think you have nailed it JenB.

For a very detailed study of the whole topic of Methodism in the area see:

Pit-men, preachers & politics; the effects of Methodism in a Durham mining community by Moore, Robert

A study of four Durham mining villages in the period 1870 to 1926 which examines the effects of Methodism on the political life of the villages during an especially important phase of trade union and political history.

The four villages are: Esh Winning, Cornsay Colliery, Waterhouses and Quebec-Hamsteels.

Available at archive.org (it has to be 'borrowed', but that simply requires that you register with the site).

https://archive.org/details/pitmenpreachersp0000moor

Added: there are some copies listed on ebay, but there are better prices for the copies listed at abebooks.co.uk

[Wulfsige]

Excellent. Many thanks. I can now contact Durham CRO (or view their online catalogue) and see what archives they have for that Circuit and period. My greatgrandfather became a local preacher, as did my grandfather and my father, and much of my own preaching till this year has been in Methodist chapels, and family lore has it that it was during their brief sojourn in Quebec (1874 till ca 1890) that the family became Methodist - so something like 150 years of significant (indeed, formative) involvement. Hence my interest in the Quebec WM 'society'.