Gloria wrote:
Under Stockport Hillgate Tabernacle were the results of two ministers, father and son, who went around Lancashire baptising and entering them into a book.
Registers of Rev Peter Walkden of baptisms at several churches (1709-1769)
Garsdale c1709-1710
Chipping and Newton c1710-1722
Hesket Lane and Newton c1722-1739
Holcone "and occasionally" 1739-1744
Stockport "and occasionally" c1744-1769
Bramhall, Newton and Littlemoor c1723, 1747-1768
Registers of Rev Henry Walkden of baptisms of several churches (from 1747)
Tingwhistle "and occasionally" c1747-1758
Heaviley Hall nr Stockport c1760-1761
Stockport "and occasionally" c1761
Wimondhouses, Newton and Hesket Lane c1761-1793
? Stockport m1770
I have found a few of my Kippaxs from Haggate in the Wimondhouses, Newton and Hesket Lane in 1766-1769.
I have written the "areas" as is, and I cannot explain the "and occasionally".
In the same register under Stockport "and occasionally", I found this which is quite sad
Son to a man who is run away. Mother died as soon as she bore him. July 20th 1760
AND
Son to Tho's Linny's wifes mother. April 14th 1763
Wymondhouses (an old farm in the south of the parish) was purchased in 1667 by the Nonconformist preacher Thomas Jollie. He had a meeting-place licensed in 1672, later building a chapel that was still in-use until the 1860
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