Early Yorkshire Quakers: Where (generally) Buried

Question

Here's a general question for all you brilliant Quaker experts: Where were they buried? Specifically, the early Yorkshire Quakers who didn't emigrate? I appreciate your help note though if you respond with the answer: Castle York dungeon you have to try again. :-)

Answer 1

Early Quakers considered it "hubris" to mark their graves.  Thus, it may be difficult to locate any without external documentation.  On Nantucket Island in the US, there is a large 'empty' field where Quaker immigrants were buried, but no stones or markers at all.  Thank goodness they excelled at minutes, their Meeting records.

Comments

Now that's one unmarked graveyard I wouldn't be afraid to build a house upon, unlike, say, an old Indian burial ground. :-)

Answer 2

I did some research on the early Quakers in Lincolnshire. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Beckingham_Quakers  These folks were mostly buried in local parish cemeteries.  At this stage there were no Quaker cemeteries and so they had to find a sympathetic local vicar.  Barnby-in-the-Willows was obviously one such place.  The register there has numerous burials marked as being Quaker.  After the Act of Toleration in 1689, they could set up their own cemeteries.

Comments

Stephen this confirms my suspicions and I thank you. It makes sense, 'find a sympathetic vicor' and they were all about making sense :-)

Cheers.