[HPforGrownups] Stockwell Orphanage

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 89676

Carolyn wrote:
> Geoff, a further point on location. As you will have gathered, I
> wouldn't choose Baptist history as my starter for 10 on Mastermind,
> but a faint bell has just rung in my head about the Welsh Baptists,
> as a well-known and vocal part of your church.
>
> There are so many Welsh threads in the series, not least about
> Godric's Hollow, dragons, green eyes etc etc.. could this be another?
> Is Little Hangleton on the Welsh border perhaps ?

There are a lot of -ton names around the North East Wales area so if you're
going to surmise, then that's the place to look. But there's one possible
flaw in the theory. The descriptions of the Riddle House and of the Riddles'
social position suggests that they're "gentry". And that would almost
certainly rule out the possibility of their being Baptists.

In Wales, as in England, Nonconformism was largely a lower class belief. the
gentry were mostly Anglicans - squire and parson are inextricably linked in
village life. Slightly differently between the two countries - in Wales the
middle class were largely Nonconformist, in England they were largely
Anglican. Even being Baptist was slightly unusual in Wales, most people in
Wales were New Dissent (Calvinistic Methodists) rather than Old Dissent
(Baptists, Independents, and so on).

So for those reasons, I think I'd look elsewhere for the Riddles.

But JKR alone knows all

Cheers

Ffred

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