Class Ticket

Class Ticket
Class Ticket
1994/2565/14

1800-1850 / Certificate / Document / Methodism / Paper / Printing & Publishing
Paper; printed
1817

The membership ticket or 'class ticket' system is specifically Methodist. Class tickets originate in the 1700s, when the Methodist Church was a religious society and still within the Church of England. Members belonged to 'classes' within local Methodist societies, and every member received a ticket at least once a year. Many societies issued monthly tickets.

Membership is an important milestone in becoming a Methodist, and membership tickets are still issued on a regular basis.

This ticket was issued to Mary Tucker for March 1817. See also a selection of other class tickets in the Online Collection, including further tickets issued to Mary Tucker.