BE -British
Episc. Methodist
IM -I. Methodist
(I = Independent?)
JM -J. Meth.
E.
MC -I. Meth.
C.
MI -Meth.
I.
OM -Other
Methodist
VM -Universal
Methodist
Of possible interest to some, the other abbreviations used in 1871 were:
AA -African
Assoc Baptist
AD -Adventists
AP -American
Presbyterian
AT -Atheist
BA -Baptist
BB -Bible
Believer
BC -Bible
Christian
BR -Brethren
CB -Christian
Brethren
CC -African
Christian Conference Baptist
CD -Christadelphian
CE -Church
of England, Anglican
CI -Church
of Ireland
CN -Christian
CO -Congregationalist
CP -Canada
Presbyterian/C. Presb.
CS -Church
of Scotland/Kirk/Scotch Presb.
CX -Christian
Church of Christ
DE -African
Deist
DI -Disciple
(of Christ)
EA -Evangelical
Association
EP -Episcopal(ian)
EU -Evangelical
Union
EV -Evangelical
FK -Free Kirk/Free
Presb.,etc.
FT -Free Thinker
(of England)
FW -Free Will
Baptist/Free Christian
GB -Regular
Baptist/see also RB
IF -Infidel
IL -Illegible
IN -Independent
IP -Irish
Presbyterian
IR -Irvingite/Catholic
Apostolic
JU -Brethren
Jew
KB -Christian
Close Communion Baptist
LD -Latter
Day Saints (Mormons)
LU -Lutheran/Evangelical
Lutheran
MD -Mahometan
MO -Mormon
MN -Mennonite
MS -Messiah
MV -Moravian
NG -Not Given
NP -N. Presbyterian
OB -Other
Baptist
OP -Other
Presbyterian
PA -Pagan
PB -Plymouth
Brethren
PE -Est. Presb.
PM -Primitive
Methodist
PR -Protestant
PS -Presbyterian
PU -Puritan
QU -Quaker/Friends
RB -Reformed
Baptist/R. Baptist
RC -(Roman)
Catholic
RP -Reformed
Presb.
SD -Seventh
Day Adventist
SP -Spiritualist
SW -Swedenborgian/New
Jerusalem
TU -Tunker
UB -United
Brethren
UN -Union
Baptist
UP -United
Presbyterian/U. Kirk Presbyterian
UT -Unitarian
UV -Universalist
WP -W. Presbyterian
XC -C. C.
Baptist
ZZ -Strange
References
In the preceding, Church of Ireland may be translated as the Church of England in Ireland.