My ancestor Mary HUGHES was baptized at Morton Chapel near Oswestry in 1843. http://mediasvc.ancestry.co.uk/v2/image/namespaces/1093/media/c88ee6b2-67e9-499e-b62f-95e62d52e510?client=TreesUI
I am planning on visiting Shropshire in May to visit and photo my family locations.
Does anyone know if this is still standing and its location?
I have found a Methodist chapel in Morton but this was an Anglican baptism
I see there is the parish Church of St. Philip and St. James (Morton) but this wasn't built until 1873
Could this have been built on the Chapel's site?
The register (or is it a transcript?) is on FMP and runs from 1823 to 1921
Thanks in anticipation
Andrew
Mike I cant see the chapel on your map link ( unless you mean the Methodist chapel?)
Or are you saying the Church was built on the site of the old chapel?
Andrew
Hello Andrew
The church is on the next cross roads north of the chapel. The link I provided should open on the church not the chapel.
Mike
Mike
Thanks for your help but I think you misunderstand my question..
Try http://www.borderparishes.org.uk/morton/4568900623 Andrew, but also note the information about Family Research on http://www.borderparishes.org.uk/churches/4570301789.
Hello Andrew
Hopefully the text below, especially the bit I have highlighted in bold, will answer your question.
The text is taken from the 1941 edition of Kelly's Directory of Shropshire but you are likely to find similar text in any Trade Directory covering the area.
Mike
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MORTON is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1861 from the parishes of Oswestry and Llan-y-Blodwel, and consists of Morton and Crickheath, a quarter of a mile north-east from Llynclys station on the Great Western railway and 3 1/2 miles south from Oswestry, in the Oswestry division of the county, petty sessional division, county court district and rural deanery of Oswestry, archdeaconry of Salop and diocese of Lichfield.
The church of SS. Philip and James, rebuilt in 1873 on the site of the old church at a cost of £2,200, is an edifice of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave and south aisle; there is a memorial brass to the Rev. W. Wyatt, a former vicar, who died in 1868, and through whose exertions the district was formed into an ecclesiastical parish; in the chancel is a stained window to the Rev. James Hook, a former vicar, who died in 1876; the organ, a memorial to him, was presented in 1878 by his widow; there is also a memorial window to the Rev. Charles Orlando Kenyon M.A. vicar here 1877-9o: there is a brass to the Rev. Richard Edwards Price M.A. vicar 1890-94 and a brass tablet on marble in memory of the Rev. Charles Ramsey Garnett-Botfield M.A. vicar 1893-1929: the brass cross on the altar is in memory of Mrs. Price: the brass lectern is in memory of Capt. Charles Sidney Garnett-Botfield, who fell in the Great War, 1914-18
The register dates from the year 1823. The living is a vicarage, net early value £630, including 15 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1930 Ьу the Rev. Frederick Albert Owen B.A. of St. David’s College, Lampeter. The church and most of the churchyard is in the civil parish of Llan-y-Blodwel. The Earl of Bradford, who is lord of the manor, and Maj. Bertie Edward Parker Leighton M.P., D.L., J .P. are the principal land-owners. The soil is clay and gravel; subsoil, various. The chief crops are wheat and turnips, and some land is in pasture. The population of the ecclesiastical parish in 1931 was 925.
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Hello Andrew
If you follow the A483 road south from Oswestry towards Welshpool as far as Llynclys then follow the B4396 road east to the first cross roads and then go north on the unclassified road to the first cross roads.
St. Philip & St. James's Church is on the south west corner of the cross roads.
The church dates from 1873.
This link should take you to a piece of old and new mapping side by side showing the chapel.
Mike