Sincerity, Lodge of, No. 486 [erased], Wigan

Annual returns stating names, professions and residence of members of Lodge of Sincerity [Moderns] and general correspondence relating to the running of the Lodge. Years 1789 - 1792 are not extant.

Lodge of Sincerity was granted a warrant to meet as No. 492 by the Moderns' Grand Lodge on 30 November 1786 at the Buck i' th' Vine, Wallgate, Wigan, Lancashire. In 1792 the Lodge was renumbered to meet as No. 402 and after the union between the Moderns' and Antients' Grand Lodges to form the United Grand Lodge of England it was renumbered as No. 486 in 1814. By 1813 the Lodge met at the Ring of Bells, Millgate, Wigan and in 1823 the lodge met at the Royal Oak, Millgate, Wigan, where meetings remained until the lodge was erased on 5 March 1828. From 1828 the lodge continued to meet as a spurious Lodge, meeting at the King's Head, Market Place, Wigan.