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Morman L-DS Question

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David

David Report 12 Feb 2006 17:27

Does anyone know when the L-DS Mormon Church first came to England? I have found a number of churches in the 1851 religious census who call themselves just 'Latter Day Saints' Would they be Mormons? I have looked on the L-DS site and also The Original LDS not to be confused with the L-DS, but can't find anything. David

Cougarjo

Cougarjo Report 12 Feb 2006 17:51

So you are saying that LDS is different from L-DS? Can't find anything about L-DS. What website is that? confused:)

Heather

Heather Report 12 Feb 2006 17:52

Yes, they are also known as the Latter Day Saints. Thats why they collect dead peoples names - they make them saints aswell.

Jill

Jill Report 12 Feb 2006 18:02

I have ancestors who joined the LDS Church in Flyford Flavel. Worcestershire in 1840. They are referred to as 'early converts'.

Guinevere

Guinevere Report 12 Feb 2006 18:13

Hi, The first ministry to England was in 1837. Gwynne

Researching:
Lowestoft and North Suffolk, Monmouthshire, Breconshire, Somerset

An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 12 Feb 2006 18:21

By the 1850s, the Mormons, or Latter Day Saints, had almost 2 million members in England alone!!! Olde Crone

An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 12 Feb 2006 20:54

Alan You cannot possibly have known when you posted your reply that you have just opened up a whole new idea to me! My missing 2 x GGF - supposedly born in Chorley - not a single record of him exists until he is 39 - I wonder, I just wonder, if he went to Utah with the first lot of recruits in 1840.... Thankyou! Olde Crone

Dea

Dea Report 12 Feb 2006 21:08

Olde Crone - His name wouldn't be Tootell would it? (Or Pollitt) Same here! Dea x

An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 12 Feb 2006 21:42

Dea No, its my hidey-Holden again! But I know there were lots of Tootells in the area - I have studied the Parish Registers till I know them off by heart, nearly. I do know that a bunch of Holdens went on the Great Plains Trek, from Wheelton, in 1840. One of them married a Presley, ho ho, wonder if I am in for dibs??? And of course, it wasnt just Holdens, it was half the village. For some reason it never occurred to me that MINE mmight have gone - and come back again, in time for the 1861. Olde Crone

David

David Report 12 Feb 2006 22:06

Thanks that answers my question. On the 1851 religious census in Kent there were several churhes called 'Latter Day Saints' including at least 1 on the isle of Sheppey. The Mormans didn't go to Utah till 1847, Smith died in 1844, (martyred, they say. I thought he died in a brawl.) I didn't realise they had branches in this country so early. The Mormans are 'The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latterd-Day Saints.' There is another sect who call themselves 'The [Original] Church of the Latter Day Saints.' This group don't practise baptism for the dead according to their web site. David