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see also: https://www.mywesleyanmethodists.org.uk/content/topics-2/first-world-war/wesleyan_methodist_ministers_who_served_in_the_armed_forces_during_ww1
Solomon Mease (1800-1871) was my 2x Great Grandfather. He was a leading figure in the Wesleyan Methodist Community on Tyneside. Industrialist, shipowner, and philanthropist, and was twice Mayor of Tynemouth. It is said that when the Newcastle orphan house was demolished he re-assembled, plank by plank, John Wesley’s study which stood atop the site, in the garden of his house at North Shields.
The chapel replaced by this one was built in 1822. Attendances on 30 March 1851 were 70 and 39 Sunday school scholars in the afternoon (which was said to be the average attendance, and 72, with 30 scholars in the evening.
