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Name
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The Primitive Methodist Conference Losses (1837)
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Description
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The Primitive Methodist Conference of 1837 reported losing thirty-eight members by removals to England, America and elsewhere. Thirty-eight out of seven hundred and fifty — five per cent of the entire Manx Methodist membership in a single year. The chapels that had given Manx people a structure for community were bleeding members to the same emigration that was draining the parishes. The chapel networks may have helped organise the departures: the 1827 ships carried Local Preachers, the communities they founded in Ohio were organised around worship, and the intelligence that flowed back to Mann followed the same networks that had spread Methodism across the island.
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Date
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1837
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Type
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Religious Impact
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Source
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Primitive Methodist Conference records, 1837
