Talk:George Cosens

Untitled
This needs a major clean-up in the layout etc. I copied most of the content directly from the Cradley Heath Baptist Church article to save time, so the structure reflects this section of that article. I will create some sections, which will need filling in due course. There are enough sources to fill in most of the gaps. Main section I need to create is a list of the places where G C was church minister, which will give a back-bone to filling in some of the other information about his life. -- Robert of Ramsor (talk) 14:35, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Categories
Following the "this page has no categories" tag, I have managed to track down one exiting category which matches the article. That is, "Jamaican emigrants to the UK". Category added, and he appears in the list of articles with this category. Except that he appears as a G not a C. Other relevant categories would be "Baptists", "Primitive Methodists", "Baptist Ministers" (or "Minister of religion, CHristianity, Baptist"). There seems to be no simple means of discovering existing categories. -- Robert of Ramsor (talk) 23:07, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Citation request regarding First Known Afro-Caribbean Minister
A "Citation Needed" note has appeared on the opening senetnce that George Cosens is the first known Afro-Caribbean church minister in Britain. The factual and historical basis for that claim is that from 1824 he was a Travelling Preacher with the Primitive Methodists, serving as a "missioner" rather than settled Circuit Minister. He left the Prims in 1836, and his pastorate at Cradley Heath from 1837 was his first as sole minister. Earlier in 1836 he had been assistant pastor at Aylesbury.

I have some material from the Primitive Methodist Magazines to add to this article when I get time.

Meanwhile, the claim that GC was the first known black church minister in Britain has to stand or fall by other investigators finding someone else. There were plenty of other African and Caribbean people in Britain before then, but in other occupations. Because of his origins as sone of a plantation owner in Jamaica and a black slave woman, GC appears to have a unique place in British history. -- Robert of Ramsor (talk) 10:14, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on George Cosens. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20101003010703/http://www.baptist.org.uk/baptist_life/baptist_history.html to http://www.baptist.org.uk/baptist_life/baptist_history.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 20:14, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on George Cosens. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120717000508/http://www.baptisthistory.org.uk/basicpage.php?contents=newsletter&page_title=Newsletter to http://www.baptisthistory.org.uk/basicpage.php?contents=newsletter&page_title=Newsletter
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080917162852/http://www.blacknet.co.uk/Black_History_Month/Midlands_East_England/Celebrating_diversity_in_Dudley_borough.html to http://www.blacknet.co.uk/Black_History_Month/Midlands_East_England/Celebrating_diversity_in_Dudley_borough.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 13:09, 13 October 2017 (UTC)