BRUNSWICK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

CBK/1 Church and Leaders' Meeting Minute Books (6) 1890-1939

CBK/2 Membership Rolls (2) 1883-1967

CBK/3 Finance Committee Minutes (3) 1932-1968

CBK/4 Church Treasurer's Account Books (2) 1932-1964

CBK/5 Trustees Minute Books (6) 1851-1964

CBK/6 Trustees Account Books (5) 1836-1959

CBK/7 Baptism Registers (2) 1836-1962

CBK/8 Burial Books and Registers (9) 1837-1959

CBK/9 Sunday School Teachers' Meeting Minute Books (1) 1839-1849

CBK/10 Sunday School Account Books (2) 1835-1955

CBK/11 Day School Managers' Minutes (1) 1903-1935

CBK/12 Miscellaneous Day School Records (2) 1910-1935

CBK/13 Choir Minute Books (1) 1920-1924

CBK/14 Church Magazines (23) 1919-1954

CBK/15 Miscellaneous Publications (6) 1907-1936

CBK/16 Photographs and Illustrations (3) c191- -1964

CBK/17 Miscellaneous Records (2) 1907-1967

These records were deposited by Bury and Heywood methodist circuit at various dates up to 1996.

Brunswick church was formed in 1836 when several hundred members and scholars left the Methodist chapel at Union Street to join the new Wesleyan Methodist Association; some papers relating to this split are to be found among the records of Union Street (ref. CUS). The new group initially met in a warehouse in Paradise Street, but in 1837 a chapel was built in North Street, and in 1840, this became the centre of the new WMA Bury circuit. In 1864, a new building replaced the old chapel, which from 1870 served as the church day school until its closure in 1935; some additional records for the school have been deposited by the borough education department (ref. SBR). Brunswick church closed in 1967, when the remaining congregation joined with that of the church at Limefield to form the new Seedfield church. Some records for the new church are among those listed here; other are listed under CLF and CSF.