Durham Faithful Lodge (297)

Lodge Details
Named in: 1835
Serial Number: 1551
Date of Warrant or Constitution: 1810
Warrant of Constitution: 22nd June 1810
Numeration
1894 onwards: 297
Lodge Number (A): 348
Lodge Number (1814): 446
Lodge Number (1832): 297
Erased: The last new members joined the lodge in 1837. The 68th Regiment departed for Jamaica in 1838, leaving Amyas Richard Griffith, the Master of the Lodge, behind. There is no evidence that the lodge met after the move of the Regiment to Jamaica. Erased in 18
Notes (1): The lodge was granted a travelling warrant by the Ancients' hran Lodge to meet int the 68th Regiment of Light Infantry. In September 1819, the 68th Regiment was stationed at Quebec, Lower Canada. The United Grand Lodge of England sent a Quarterly Communication to the lodge there, but it was sent back to England by the officers of the 68th regiment who disapproved the lodge meeting
Notes (2): There is preserved in the Annual Returns in the Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London, a letter dated 21st August 1832, sent to the United Grand lodge from the Master of Durham Faithful Lodge, George Lyons, Sergeant Armourer in the 68th Regiment while stationed in Clare, Ireland. It is to inform the United Grand Lodge of England that the commanding officer of the Regiment had refused the lodge permission to meet at the risk of court martial, as he considered the lodge a 'party connexion' and general orders had been issued against members of the Orange Order.
 
Meeting Places
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Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Malaga, Spain1810
Hythe, Kent, England1810
Arundel Barracks, Crossbush, Lyminster, Sussex, England1810
Lewes, Sussex, England1811
Brabourne Lees Barracks, Kent, England1812
Duke's Head, Market Street, Hythe, Kent1813
Sixty-eighth Regiment,1814
Castlebar Barracks, County Mayo, Ireland1816
Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland1830
Dublin, Ireland1833
Barrack Rooms, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland1834
Gibraltar1834