Index to Manx Wesleyan Methodist Church Record

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THE MANX WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH RECORD 1893-

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A Monthly Journal of General and Local Methodist News. First published January, 1893. Price one penny. Douglas: Clucas and Fargher, Mona's Herald Office. The size of the page in 1903-4 was 270x215, and from 1905 onwards 292x230.
From October, 1932, the title was altered to " The Manx Methodist Church Record." The celebration of the Methodist Union took place in September, 1932.

The first issues contain articles on the history of Methodism in the Isle of Man by the Revs. W. T. Radcliffe, Humphrey Jutsum, and others, the former's " Manx Wesleyan Methodism " in the issues for January to April, 1893,being especially noteworthy. There are also interesting notes of the Peel fishing fleet in Ireland throughout Vols. 1 and 2, and a valuable feature up to the end of 1894 was the inclusion of portraits and biographical sketches of notable Manx Methodists, as follows:-

Volume 1.	Page
Rev. Humphrey Jutsum	3
Mr. J. R. Cowell, H.K	15
Rev. Hugh Price Hughes	27
Rev. Mark Guy Pearse	39
Mr. John Stevenson Moore	51
Rev. W. Maltby	63
Rev. J. Bampton Maltby	75
Mr. Willlam Goldsmith	87
Mr. Thomas Clague (Peel)	99
Rev. Simpson Johnson	111
Mr. Giles Metcalf	123
Rev. Robert Aitken	133

Volume 2.	Page
Mr. John Clucas (Foxdale)	1
Rev. Isaac Shimmin	9
Mrs. Kitto	17
Henry Thomas McIver (Douglas)	25
Mr. Robert Cowley, J.P	33
Charles Fenwick Reed	41
John Quayle (Castletown)	49
Rev. Thomas Waugh	57
Rev. William Spiers, M.A	65
Rev. Thomas Rippon	89

Volume 3.	Page
Miss Eleanor Brennan	2, 11, 18, 28
Rev. Dr. Moulton	32
Rev. James E. Hargreaves	66
Rev. Sidney Mees	66
Rev. H. C. Dean	67

Volume 1 averaged 14 to 16 pages per number; vols 2-12 averaged 8 pages; vols. 13-21 varied from 12 to 16; and from vol. 22 onwards the average was 24.
The price from the commencement up to 1919 was one penny, during 1920-21 1½d., and afterwards twopence.
The editors and dates of their retirements were as follows:-
Rev. T. Rippon, October, 1895.
Rev. Sidney Mees, October, 1898.
Rev. H. J. Sugden, October, 1901.
Rev. W. H. Heap, January, 1905.
Rev. Arthur Whetnall, October, 1907.
Rev. John W. Hall, March, 1910.
Rev. W. J. Hartley, October, 1913.
Rev. C. Copeland Smith, July, 1914.
Rev. J.Wesley Davies, September, 1916.
Rev. J. T. Salisbury.
Rev. R. W. Pickeregill, August, 1918.
R. G. Fargher(Douglas), July, 1933.
J. K. Gawne (Peel).




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