Having seen Rex's recent post about his new Mormons booklet – with its mention of his booklets on Haggate and Colne Baptists (which I have just ordered from him by post) – I am promped to ask if anyone can help me link in some of the Baptists I have come across.
One of my great great grandfather Thomas Croasdale's sisters was Elizabeth Croasdale (baptised at Colne Particular Baptists on 20 November 1818.). From an Ancestry family tree, I discovered that she married Jabez Stuttard, baptist minister, on 3 September 1850, at Ebenezer Baptist Chapel, Burnley. I subsequently found Jabez (general Baptist Minister) and Elizabeth in Castle Acre, Norfolk in 1851. I haven't found them in 1861 but have found them later at Crowle, North Lincs. I assume that, given his occupation, this Jabez must be related to the John Stuttard mentioned in Rex's Haggate supplement.
It seems that apparently unusual names were really quite common locally - I see that there was at least one other Jabez Stuttard born in Colne in the early 19th century!
Ruth
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