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Optional Print Course Material: English: Non-Anglican Church Records
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This course complements the English: Parish Registers course which is about the Established Church from 1538 onwards when, apart from the brief reign of Mary Tudor (1553-1558), it had broken away from the Roman Catholic domination and moved towards Protestantism. This course deals with the other Judaeo-Christian denominations in England, excluding the Anglican Church. I use the word Non-Anglican as a general term for all of these. The term Nonconformist strictly refers only to Protestants, and it is used with that meaning in this text. Most genealogists will have need to examine the records of Nonconformists, Catholics, Jews, or other faiths at some time in their searches. Extensive material is waiting to be used in archives, libraries, and genealogy websites.
Acknowledgements
The author is grateful to fellow researchers Peter Norfolk and Pam Ruschke for allowing the use of examples from their families.
Course Length: 9 weeksMODULE 1
RESEARCHING ENGLISH NON-ANGLICANS
Clues to Non-Anglican Ancestry
Protestant Dissenter Ancestry
Clues to Roman Catholic Ancestry
Clues to Jewish Ancestry
Protestant Categories
Episcopal
Reformed
Independent Movements
Historical Survey & State Records
Pre-Reformation (to 1534)
Reformation to Civil War (1534-1642)
MODULE 2
ERAS & ACTS
Restoration (1660-1730s)
Sacrament Certificates
Methodism Era (1730s-1830s)
Victorian Era (1830s-1901)
MODULE 3
GENERAL CIVIL RECORDS, ANGLICAN, AND JEWISH RECORDS
Quarter Sessions & Assizes
Places of Worship
Naturalization & Denization
Maps, Local Histories & Theses
Anglican Records
Ecclesiastical Court Records
Jews
History and Beliefs
Location of Jews in England
Other Jewish Records
Sources
MODULE 4
CATHOLICS RECORDS
Roman Catholics
History and Beliefs
Catholic Missions and Parishes
Catholic Records
Catholics in Early Non-Catholic Records
Catholic Societies
Catholic Publications
Irvingites
MODULE 5
PROTESTANTS, HUGUENOTS, WALLOONS & FLEMISH, MUGGLETONIANS, AND PRESBYTERIANS & UNITARIANS RECORDS
Protestant Records
Protestant Nonconformist Registers
Unique Features of Nonconformist Registers
Other Nonconformist Records
Other Items in the Register Books
Immigrant Protestants
Huguenots, Walloons & Flemish
Muggletonians
Presbyterians & Unitarians
Presbyterian & Unitarian Records
Other Presbyterian & Unitarian Records
MODULE 6
BAPTISTS, AND CONGREGATIONALISTS & INDEPENDENTS RECORDS
Baptists
Baptist Records
Congregationalists & Independents
Congregational/Independent Records
Other Congregational/Independent Records
MODULE 7
QUAKERS, MORAVIANS, INGHAMITES, AND METHODISTS RECORDS
Quakers
Quaker Records
Other Quaker Records
Moravians
Moravian Records
Other Moravian Records
Inghamites
Methodists
Archives & Records
Other Methodist Records
MODULE 8
OTHER DENOMINATIONAL RECORDS
Swedenborgians or New Jerusalem Church
Records
Bible Christians
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Latter-day Saint Records
Plymouth Brethren
Salvation Army
Salvation Army Records
Other Salvation Army Records
The Challenge of Dissenter Research
Non-Anglicans & The Nation
The Industrial Revolution
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES