Methodists in Sarrat in 1825

GEORGE HARDING, Leader:

George Harding, Sophia Harding, James Curd, Elizabeth Bryant, Wm. Swain, Jas. Grange, James Austin, Sarah Grange, Sarah Coleman.

The little cause at Sarratt, which appeared next to Watford, on the Circuit plan, in 1824, had then ten members, and the leader was Mr. George Harding. The following year the Society, as such, became extinct, both the Society Steward and Leader, with their families, disappearing from the list, while some of the members appear under the head of Rickmansworth. In 1839, Sarratt reappears, the class being in charge at Mr. Austin. For some years, it is returned with fifteen members, but in 1847 it finally vanished from the Records. The Superintendent in December, 1847, remarks :-- "This quarter we lost Sarratt; the members preferring the Baptist worship in a good, new chapel, to worshipping in a blacksmith's shoeing shed, within the sound of a beerhouse. The place should be visited again, however." The previous quarter it was returned as having ten members.

Methodism in the city of the Proto-Martyr and the St Albans Circuit