Return to my Societe Pages main index
Ragg in his 1895 "Popular History of Jersey" mentions:
"the building of a chapel in Don Street for the combined use of the French and English Wesleyans in 1807, this being the first Dissenting place of worship erected on the Island (afterwards, however, on the separation of the two bodies, who then respectively moved to more commodious edifices in Wesley Street and Grove Place, converted into, and for many years known as, the Hotel de Ville) "
However, R.D. Moore in his "Methodism in the Channel Islands", places the date of a Don Street chapel in 1813. This is certainly drawing on "Histoire du Methodisme dans les Isles de la Manche" by M Le Lievre (1885). Other records, the various versions "Chronology of Jersey" (Mollet, Stevens and Sinel) and Balleine's "History of Jersey" all seem to draw from the same source, so none of these can be taken as an independent.
Both Ragg and Moore list their sources are listed at the front of their books, and they appear to have no overlap. Moore's are pretty well all Church related, while Ragg's are pretty well all secular. So we have two independent strands, with a discrepancy!