Minutes of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference
1744-1900
As well as telling us what was discussed at the annual conference, the minutes list all the ministers for that year and where they are to be stationed, and which ministers have stopped being ministers. They also list the ministers who died in the previous year, with a short obituary.
We have a full set of minutes at Methodist Church House, as do the Methodist Archives and Research Centre in Manchester, but we are delighted to be able to tell you that many of the earlier years have been digitised, and made freely available on the internet.
If you want to know about an ancestor who was a Wesleyan Methodist minister who died between 1744 and 1860 or in a number of years between 1870 and 1900 follow these links.
1744-1798 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesofmethodi00wesl
1808-1813 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc04churgoog
1814-1818 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc02churgoog
1819-1824 http://books.google.com/books?id=7xoRAAAAIAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
1825-1830 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc10churgoog
1831-1835 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DCIRAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
1836-1839 http://books.google.com/books?id=RygRAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:0bbUu-YN4LBfeUrg7Am
1840-1843 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433070792597
1844-1847 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mxsRAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
1848-1851 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc18churgoog
1852-1854 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc11churgoog
1855-1857 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc07churgoog
1858-1860 http://books.google.com/books?id=PMEQAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3-IA4
1861-1864 Not available online
1865 https://archive.org/details/minutesofseveral00wesl_0
1866-1869 Not available online
1870-1872 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesmethodis00churgoog
1873-1875 https://archive.org/details/10735743.269.emory.edu
1876 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc17churgoog
1877 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/chi.097921491
1878 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/chi.097921506
1879 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc16churgoog
1880-1882 Not available online
1883 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc08churgoog
1884 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc00churgoog
1885 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc12churgoog
1886-1887 Not available online
1888 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc15churgoog
1889 Not available online
1890 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc05churgoog
1891 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc09churgoog
1892-1894 Not available online
1895 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc14churgoog
1896-1897 Not available online
1898 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc03churgoog
1899 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc13churgoog
1900 http://www.archive.org/details/minutesseveralc01churgoog
A full set of volumes, covering 1744 to 1932 is available on a pay to view basis at https://www.britishonlinearchives.co.uk/group.php?cat=&sid=BOAREL&cid=9781851172092&date_option=equal&pid=72092msa
If you are looking for a minister who died between 1861 and 1869, the obituaries were reprinted in The Wesleyan Methodist Magazine. You will need to check the index (sadly at the end of each volume) to find the obituaries. Electronic copies of the volumes for 1861-1862 and 1864-1869 may be found here
For access to those years not available online, including those from after 1900 , contact either the University of Manchester
Tel: 0161 275 3764
email Contact Special Collections (The University of Manchester Library)
or Methodist Church House
Tel: 020 7486 5502
email: helpdesk@methodistchurch.org.uk
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