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Re: Baptist Religion--A hint?




Jean,
    Do you have more information on this first Baptist Church in northern
Scotland?  Baptists have a custom, as do other churches, of naming the first
church built in each city "First Baptist Church".  So we might wonder
whether it was one of these namings instead of really being the first church
built in northern Scotland.  But certainly, somwhere there had to be a first
Baptist church built.
    I wonder about a "Sinclair" building it.  Doesn't that usually mean that
this person provided the funds? But weren't the Sinclair Earls the only ones
that would have had enough money to finance such a venture?  Were any of the
Earl's a Baptist?
 Sometime a pastor will be linked with the building because he was the
driving force to get it done.  Or it could be that a Sinclair was chairman
of the Deacon Board or it could be that a Sinclair was one of the founding
members.  Probably it never meant that one person built it himself (I know
you didn't say that).  So I just wonder what the story would be about this
event?
Laurel
-----Original Message-----
From: Jean Haddow <jean@hadpad.demon.co.uk>
To: sinclair@jump.net <sinclair@jump.net>
Date: Saturday, May 15, 1999 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: Baptist Religion--A hint?


>
>In message <2373c94.36f6ccd2@aol.com>, Plumpett@aol.com writes
>>
>>I have read recently that a Sinclair built the first Baptist Church in
>>northern Scotland !
>>
>>Since  the first article on this site that raised the Baptist question
>>occurred several days later , I didn't note the specific details for later
>>reference.
>>
>>To address the inquiry that first raised this issue , it would seem
consistent
>>with this finding that a specific religious affiliation could provide a
>>valuable clue in finding roots in a family line .
>>
>>I would confirm other list member's comments that the religious
affiliations
>>were often fluid in this country . My own Sinclair line in the USA was
first
>>found to be
>>Methodist- Episcopal , then Episcopal .
>>
>>A daughter then married into a line with Quaker , Baptist and Presbyterian
>>member !
>>
>>Joe Greigg
>>
>>[ This is the Sinclair family discussion list, sinclair@jump.net.
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>
>It is very difficult to reply from a Scottish perspective  I am not sure
>what you mean by fluid - the major change came at the REFORMATION - when
>the forces of protestantism came to be dominant in Britain as a whole
>and Henry the Eighth renounced his catholic faith and became head of the
>Church of England.  Now, there were splits  within the Protestant
>teaching and from that came such groupf as the Baptists, the
>Congregationalists ets.
>I've learnt in the time of being part of the Sinclair network that
>direct. existing contacts with people in Scotland are of comparatively
>little interest.  I can understand this since we are so remote and
>possibly so few in number and our more dirsct links with the past
>history of the Sinclairs  and with present possible family links  in the
>States and canada etc. are difficult to establish.
>Anyway I think I'll ubsubscribe for now since most folks find Scotland
>and its denizens just a tad remote.
>
>--
>Jean Haddow
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