Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Hitchin
This site gives a lot of information about the present activities of the church but also included a quite detailed "A brief history of Tilehouse Street Baptist Church"which includes quite a bit about the links with John Bunyan (author of Pilgrim's Progress) and the early days of prosecution before the Toleration Act of 1689.
| 1. | John Wilson | 1677-1716 |
| 2. | John Needham | 1716-1743 |
| 3. | Samuel James | 1743-1773 |
| 4. | John Geard | 1774-1831 |
| 5. | Thomas Griffin | 1831-1840 |
| 6. | John Broad | 1841-1857 |
| 7. | George Short | 1858-1868 |
| 8. | John Aldis | 1868-1877 |
| 9. | F.G. Marchant | 1877-1889 |
| 10. | Thomas Williams | 1890-1893 |
| 11. | C.S. Hull | 1894-1900 |
| 12. | H. Jenner | 1902-1906 |
| 13. | W.G. Harris | 1906-1917 |
| 14. | James McCleery | 1918-1926 |
| 15. | R.F. Guyton | 1926-1934 |
| 16. | G. Sheriff Johnson | 1935-1949 |
| 17. | Ralph Darvill | 1950-1954 |
| 18. | Edward T. Smalley | 1955-1966 |
| 19. | Robert H. Tebbutt | 1966-1974 |
| 20. | Lewis H.J. Waugh | 1976-1993 |
| 21. | John V. Matthews | 1996- |
The church is of of particular interest because it is one of the more important Baptist churches within Hertfordshire and its birth records (on the IGI at familysearch) start in 1717.