Baptist Burial Ground at Witton Cemetery

[Vivienne14]

This letter throws up concern about the poor state of the Baptist section of Witton Cemetery containing reburial s from the Cannon Street Chapel. The reburial must have taken place c1879.

It also raises concerns if the whereabouts if the memorial tablets from within the church. Viv.

 

[Pedrocut]

This appears on the Thread for Bond Street Baptist Chapel, and it can provide a thread on the general Baptists in Birmingham. The Rev Sam Pearce of Cannon Street is an interesting chap.

 

[Pedrocut]

William Carey (1761-1834) was born in Northamptonshire and was the first of the Baptist Missionary Society to go to Calcutta in 1793.

Samuel Pearce was born in Plymouth in 1766 and came to Birmingham and Cannon Street in 1789. He and the congregation gave support to Carey. There must have been intermarriage between the families, as the thumbnail shows, from the 150th Aniversary of the Society in Leicester in 1943.



The Memoirs of Rev Samuel Pearce (1829) can be obtained on the Internet Archive. (No mention of Bond Street or Edmonds).

Memoirs of the late Rev. Samuel Pearce, A. M. ... : Fuller, Andrew, 1754-1815 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

162 p. ; 15 cm

archive.org

William Carey

William Carey (missionary) - Wikipedia

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