A Baptist Church in Eccles, Lancashire, 1831-1842
Table 7. Statistics for the Eccles and Preston Baptist Churches, 1838-1841.
Taken from the Circular Letters of the Lancashire & Cheshire Association
| Eccles | Preston |
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| 1838 | 1839 | 1840 | 1841 | 1838 | 1839 | 1840 | 1841 |
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Increase |
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Baptized |
3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
|
Letter & Prof. |
1 | - | 2 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | - |
|
Restored |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Decrease |
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Dead |
- | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - |
|
Dismissed |
- | - | - | - | - | 7 | - | - |
|
Withdrawn |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
|
Excluded |
- | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 |
| Number at present |
55 |
58 |
31 |
32 |
81 |
76 |
74 |
75 |
|
Children in school |
not tabulated | 50 | 34 | not tabulated | 171 | 190 | ||
|
Teachers |
not tabulated | - | - | not tabulated | 22 | 20 | ||
It should be noted that “dismissed” is not derogatory: it means transfered to some other church.
“Letter & Prof. [= by profession?] means admitted to the church after showing acceptable evidence that had been baptised previously.© Roderick D. Cannon.