King's Lynn has long been a centre for religious non-conformity and Wesleyan societies were in existance in the latter half of the 19th century in the town. With it's own chapel, St Margarets, established in 1797 this eventually expanded to become the base for its own Wesleyan Circuit centred on the town.

The records covered in this transcript cover three separate registers, the first - a hand written book - was commenced in 1797 but there are few entries before the commencement of this transcript. This register was deposited at The National Archive with the commencement of Civil Registration and was transcribed from the copy held at Norfolk Record Officves on Microfilm MF1151. The book is fairly poorly filmed with faint images and little contrast, this coupled with the florid and eccentric handwriting made for a difficult transcript. The latter two registers are standard Wesleyan registers with 8 entries to a page, similar to those for parish registers but lacking the occupation column. These are filmed on Microfilms MF1724 & MF1725 in the collection of the Norfolk Record Office. Whilst these filmings are more recent and of good quality, the poor handwriting persists making for a tricky extract.

As with most Wesleyan register records are clearly not written up at the date of baptism, banks of entries (presumably maintained by individual ministers) are added in blocks which makes for an eccentric sequence of entries. The numbers shown against the entries are those used in the register and are included to assist in locating an entry within the original register, the entries, however, are presented here in date sequence for ease of finding. Given the troublesome handwriting no guarantees are forthcoming as to accuracy - this transcript carries a health warning and no doubt will be subject to future reader corractions.