Pinfold Street Wesleyan Chapel, Darlaston, Staffordshire.

Burgums and Burghams lived here, or nearby.

PINFOLD STREET WESLEYAN CHAPEL, DARLASTON In 1762 Wesleyans used a house in Bilston Street, Dalaston and John Wesley himself preached here many times. However, in 1810 Tthe new Wesleyan Chapel opened in Pinfold Street at a cost of £2,500. It began with good attendances, but in the following ten years 1820 numbers fell drastically. This was mostlt due to the trade depression following the Napoleonic wars. Over the next decade numbers slowly grew again, but it took the cholera epidemic of 1832 to greatly increase the membership with 418 names on the class leader's books. In 1833 the chapel was made larger, the original plain facade improved and the burial ground at the rear was opened. The burial ground extended to Blakemore's Lane, some 104 yards, and a £10 subscription could buy land for family vaults. The first burial took place in September 1833 and the first vault in March, 1834. Adjoining Sunday and Day schools were erected in 1846 at a cost of £439.19s.6d. By 1888 the Wesleyan school had some 238 pupils and 160 infants. In 1862 an organ was purchased for the chapel and new classrooms were built at a cost of £850. A minister's house was built next door in 1884 at a cost of £883. The chapel was enlarged again in 1876/7 and then renovated in 1907 when electric lighting replaced the old gas lamps. The building was demolished in 1970 and the congregation moved to Slater Street and Great Croft Street Methodist chapels.

The list below shows the baptisms that took place at the Pinfold Street Wesleyan Chapel, at Darlaston, Staffordshire.

Name	Date	Location	BMD	Minister	Notes	FT
Henry Burgam	01 Jan 1837	Darlaston Wesleyan Chapel	Baptism		P=John + Ann	WW
Henry Burgum	23 April 1837	Darlaston Wesleyan Chapel	Baptism		P=William + Ann	WW?

Notes - John and Ann were living at Hallfields, Bilston at the time of their sons' baptism. William and Ann were living at Bradley, just some of Bilston when their son was baptised.