Recent content by Margie Edmonds

Just some background on my family in Birmingham, as far as I know them. At the top of the tree I have Amos Edmonds, born approx. 1720, and he was married to Elizabeth Clarke. They had 9 children, that I know of, but some sources say 10. Three sons became Baptist ministers, Edward, John and...

Thank you so much for this! Sorry to have taken so long to come back here. I've been writing for uni. If this is my ancestor, Rev. John Edmonds, then he died only two years after returning from India. He is buried with his wife in Guilsborough. They had five known children, four of whom survived...

Oh, if only those memorial stones and tablets still existed somewhere!

These photos are terrific! I notice there seems to be a yard of some sort between the Cedar club and the Meeting House. I wonder if there might have been graves in that area at one point in time?

What a great photo! As a Doctor Who fan, I'm doubly impressed!

Certainly no mention of Bond Street burial Ground there, so it had already either been long closed, and forgotten, or the Bond Street Chapels burials were in fact in Cannon Street. I read somewhere, (maybe here) that the Cannon Street ground was taken over by the railway, and bodies were...

This will be interesting to research. Can you remember what year this was posted? I have not seen any references to any other Rev. John Edmonds, but at this point I cant be sure he is the same. They do seem to have moved around a circuit, and the Rev, John who is my ancestor is buried in...

Thank you so much! I wonder if any form of the Baptist missionary society still exists? they may have records? A long shot, but I've added it to my research to-do list.

It would just be nice if they had preserved the headstones, but experience tells me its unlikely.

I too would love to know what happened to the bodies buried there. I have purchased a month of FindMy Past, and am going through the papers. Thanks again.

Vivian this is very interesting indeed. I only have 3 sons attributed to Rev. John Edmonds, being Thomas, John, and Isaac. John Jnr seems to have been kicked out of the church, but he had a school, with his brother Isaac and sister Elizabeth, which I have yet to research, but have come across...

Thanks Maurice. I will look up the Birmingham Cemeteries Dept. Hopefully they can help a girl from Aus. I'll let you know here what they say.

Here is a copy of the page from the England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970, found in Ancestry.

This was Sarah Bromfield Edmonds. I have just found the document showing that she, and two of her sons were buried at Bond street. (yay, I' was thinking I must be going bonkers!)

Hello again everybody, and once again thank you all. Firstly, George Whitfield Edmonds was a son of Rev. Edward Edmonds. So a 1st cousin several times removed. I was not aware that Rev. John Edmonds had done missionary work in India! I will have to research this further. John's eldest son...