East and North Riding, Yorkshire, Baptists

East and North Riding, Yorkshire, Baptists – David Kinghorn was succeeded at Bishop Burton by Mordaunt Cracherode, who later pastored at Sutton-in-the-Elms; he was succeeded by Abraham Berry (1813-43) (204).   The church at Wainsgate was pastored by Isaac Normington from 1800-10; then by Mark Holroyd, from 1811-36 (215).  The Pellon Lane Church, Halifax, was organized by Crabtree in 1755, with Mr. Bamford, of Bacup, as pastor until 1760.  He was followed by Joshua Wood, who had a chapel built in 1763.  William Hartley was ordained there in 1772, and was followed by Mr. Hindle in 1779, who resigned in 1789.  William Ackroyd came from Hebden Bridge in 1800 and remained until the late 1820s, and he was succeeded by Samuel Whitewood in 1831 (216).  The church at Pole Moor was finally organized in 1790, with Mr. Bruce as first minister (1790-92), followed by C. Bamford from 1793-1804, and then Abraham Webster from 1808-18 and Lawrence Shaw from 1819-24 (233).  The church at Blackley was formed in 1789, with John Hindle as the first pastor (1791-93), followed by J. Rowlands (1796-98).  J. Rigby followed and remained until 1839 (234).  The church at Lockwood was formed in 1795, with William Hartley as the first pastor (1795-1804), followed by James Aston (1805-30) (235).  The church at Townhead, Sheffield, was formed in 1814, with William Downs as first pastor (1804-15); then John Jones (1816-21); and Charles Larom (1821-65) (251).  Pastors of the Axholme church at Sheffield include Edward Foster (1765-1813); David Cheeseman (1812-32); and Joseph Chamberlain until 1857 (258).  The Rotherham church in Sheffield was formed in 1789, but floundered for many years (259).  See C. E. Shipley, “The Churches of the East and North Ridings District,” in The Baptists of Yorkshire: Being the Centenary Memorial Volume of the Yorkshire Baptist Association, ed. C. E. Shipley (Bradford and London, 1912), 199-210. All page numbers above are from this volume.