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Margaret in Burton

17-09-20, 10:04

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/8767/images/STSRG9_1965_1967-0095?treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&pId=20131461

Thomas Lowe aged 56 Builder employing 80 men and Social Teacher of Methodist ???????

I can't read the last word.

ElizabethHerts

17-09-20, 10:21

Marg, I think it's Preacher and not Teacher.
I'm still trying to work out the rest of it.

ElizabethHerts

17-09-20, 10:22

After Methodist I think there are two further words, with the second one being Church.

JayG

17-09-20, 10:26

Local preacher of Methodist Free Church?

ElizabethHerts

17-09-20, 10:28

Yes, Jay, was just about to post this.

I googled and found there was a Methodist Free Church.

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/staffs/vol9/pp131-139

ElizabethHerts

17-09-20, 10:29

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/staffs/vol9/pp131-139#h3-0016

Margaret in Burton

17-09-20, 11:15

Thank you. That makes sense.
That church is still standing. It is now a cafe called The Trinity.