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Reliable Sources

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This page, and the more narrowly-focused pages it links to, include lists of specifically Quaker sources. Some of these sources need to be used with more caution than others, but all of them may be useful in research. As always, one needs to weigh up the reliability of what each source says.

General Help

Interpreting dates and abbreviations

General Material on Quakers

Occupations

• Tim Marshall. Quaker Clockmakers, PDF

British Quakers

See also

• Quakers in England: County Information and Resources: links to English counties with monthly meetings, burial grounds, research material, categories, and info.
• Quakers in Scotland for similar information for Scotland
• Quakers in Wales for similar information for Wales
• Quakers in the Isle of Man
• Quakers in the Channel Islands

Pages of Useful Links

• links to (mainly British) online resources - put together by Friends House Library, London

Books

• Annual Monitor (annual list of british Quaker deaths, published from 1812 to 1919)
  • Quaker Records: Being an Index to "The Annual Monitor," 1813-1892 ... edited by Joseph J. Green
  • Wikipedia: Annual Monitor
  • Catalog of the "Monitor" Volumes on Hathi Trust
• Besse, Joseph, A collection of the sufferings of the people called Quakers,: for the testimony of a good conscience from the time of their being first distinguished by that name in the year 1650 to the time of the act commonly called the Act of Toleration granted to Protestant dissenters in the first year of the reign of King William the Third and Queen Mary in the year 1689, Vol 1. (London: Printed and sold by Luke Hinde, at the Bible in George-Yard, Lombard-Street, 1753.)
• The beginnings of Quakerism by Braithwaite, William C. (William Charles), 1862-1922
• The Second Period of Quakerism by Braithwaite, William C. (William Charles), 1862-1922
• John Kelsall Diaries & Journals, transcribed by George Adamson, ed. Peter Adamson and Peter Crew, 2020, PDF on Academia: main genealogical information on John Kelsall Diaries and Journal free space page
• Milligan, Edward H. Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775-1920, Sessions Book Trust, 2007
• Milligan, Edward H, and Thompson, Malcom. My Ancestors were Quakers, Society of Genealogists (London), 1983, available to borrow at Internet Archive (if the digitised version is on loan to others, it may be unavailable)
• Raistrick, Arthur. Quakers in Science and Industry, William Sessions, 1950
• Thistlethwaite, Bernard. “The Bax family, an account of the early Quaker Baxes of Capel and Ockley in the County of Surrey , with particulars of some of their descendants and notes relating to a number of allied families” “Catalog entry for holdings of Family History Library”

Journals

• Journal of the Friends Historical Society, Vol 1 part 1 (1903) to Vol 64 (2013). While published in the UK, this journal's scope includes Quakers in all countries. Use Search to locate articles on meetings, individuals, and concepts.
• Quaker Studies (1996-current), published by the Quaker Studies Research Association
  • volumes 1-14 open access: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/
  • volumes 15-current, by subscription: https://www.qsra.org/quaker-studies-journal.html
  • index
• Quaker Connections (1994-current), published by the Quaker Family History Society
  • full contents index
  • surname index

Articles and Theses

• Gwynne Stock. An Evaluation of Quaker Burial Practices, Bournemouth University postgraduate research diploma thesis, 1997, PDF on Woodbrooke website (mainly on the area covered by Bristol and Frenchay Monthly Meeting; includes general background on Quaker burial practices)

Primary Sources

• British Quaker Family History Society, Database of British Quaker wills - includes transcripts
• (E-169) Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Oath Rolls (1709-1868), includes miscellaneous rolls of Quakers' affirmations

Repositories

Nonconformist Records

An introduction to Non-Conformist Records by John Goodwin

Guide to Nonconformists records held at The U.K. National Archives

National Archives

Index to RG6 series of records from Quaker registers

Friends House Library

Online Catalogue of Friends House Library, London

Websites

• LAOIS, Selected Records Transcribed From the Society of Friends (Quakers)
• The Annual Monitor or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland
• Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project, lots of information about the history of Quaker meeting houses and associated burial grounds in Britain and the Channel Islands
• Benjamin Beck's website - detailed information on a number of British Quaker families
• Pease Genealogy website - PDF descendancy trees free to download: information should be verified but a good pointer for research
• Jackson family tree: genealogical information should be verified; includes links to, and digests of, a number of primary sources

American Quakers

• Quakers in The States (Now USA)

Journals

• Quaker History, published by the Friends Historical Association
• Bulletin of Friends Historical Association on jstor
• "Friends Journal" prints obituaries monthly in their Milestones column, may also have articles remembering specific Friends.
• The Quaker Yeomen (1974-1989?), privately published by James E. Bellarts, then Patti Smith Lamb
  • Family Search record, no copies online
• The Southern Friend (1979-2007), published by the North Carolina Friends Historical Society
  • on JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/site/guilford/southern-friend-ncfhs/
  • article index https://www.ncfhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/The-Southern-Friend.pdf

Repositories

• Haverford Libraries, Quakers & Special Collections
• Swarthmore College, Friends Historical Library
• Earlham College Archives, Friends Collection
• Maryland State Archives, Friends Collection
• Hazard List Link
• Guilford College, Quaker Archives (formerly known as the Friends Historical Collection)
• UMass Amherst Special Collections, New England Yearly Meeting collection
• New England Yearly Meeting list of New England meeting with record locations, New England Meetings

Books

• To be added: books published by the North Carolina Friends Historical Society

• Bell, James Pinckney. Our Quaker Friends of ye olden time; being in part a transcript of the minute books of Cedar Creek meeting, Hanover County, and the South River meeting, Campbell County, Va. (Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell, 1905) on archive.org

• Bjorkman, Gwen Boyer, Quaker Marriage Certificates, New Garden Monthly Meeting, Chester County, Pennsylvania 1704-1799, Heritage Books, INC. (1990)

• David Dobson, Scottish Quakers and Early America, 1650-1700, Clearfield reprint, 2009, also searchable on Ancestry.com

• Hill, Thomas C., Monthly Meetings in North America: A Quaker Index, Cincinnati, Ohio, T.C. Hill, 1998) WorldCat Link Updated version at QuakerMeetings.com (powered by Plone CMS)

• Hilty, Hiram H., New Garden Friends Monthly Meeting, The Christian People Called Quakers, North Carolina Yearly Meeting, North Carolina Friends Historical Society (1983)

• Hinshaw, William W., and Thomas W. Marshall. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 6 volumes. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company (1969)

• Hinshaw, Seth B., The Carolina Quaker Experience, North Carolina Yearly Meeting, North Carolina Friends Historical Society (1984)

• Jones, Louis Thomas, The Quakers of Iowa, The State Historical Society of Iowa (1914), reprinted by Heritage Books, INC. (1999)

• Kirkpatrick, Ralph D., Back Creek Friends Cemetery Burial Records, Heritage Books, INC. (2000)

• Ladd, Ruth Kline, One Ladd's Family, revised edition, 2002: not specifically about Quakers but includes some information about American Quakers:
  • Vol. 1 - Familysearch
  • Vol. 2 - Familysearch

• Maryland Quaker records: Nottingham Monthly Meeting. Nottingham Monthly Meeting (Nottingham Monthly Meeting, Cecil, Maryland, 1900)

• Myers, Albert Cook (1874-1960). Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750 : with their early history in Ireland. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (1902). Internet Archive

• Myers, Albert Cook, Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia 1682-1750, Clearfield Company (1902), reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company (1997)

• Pennell, Sara Margaret. The Quaker domestic interior, Philadelphia 1780-1830 : an artifactual investigation of the "Quaker esthetic" at Wyck House, Philadelphia and Collen Brook Farm, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. Thesis (M.S. in Historic Preservation) -- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 1992. Internet Archives

• Moore, James W. Friends, Society of. Kingwood Monthly meeting, Hunterdon co., N.J. (from old catalog), Flemington, N.J., H. E. Deats, 1900. Link

• New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, RECORDS OF RAHWAY AND PLAINFIELD (N. J.)

• Sewel, William. The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress, of the Christian People Called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrences. (Philadelphia: Samuel Keimer, 1728)

• Shotwell, Ambrose Milton, Lansing, Mich. : A. M. Shotwell, 1897. Annals of our colonial ancestors and their descendants, or, Our Quaker forefathers and their posterity : embracing a genealogical and biographical register of nine generations of the Shotwell family in America, together with the pedigree and near kindred of the author's parents, Nathan and Phebe B. (Gardner) Shotwell

• Quaker research in New Jersey 1677 - 1750 - Hay Genealogy website

• Quaker Chronicle Records of the Ohio Yearly Meeting

• U.S. and Canada, Quaker Yearly Meeting Annual Reports, 1808-1930 on Ancestry $$

• U.S. and Canada, Quaker Monthly Meeting Historical Data, 1671-2010 on Ancestry $$

• U.S., Selected Quaker College Yearbooks and Alumni Directories, 1896-2003 on Ancestry $$

• U.S., Surname Index to Quaker Records on Ancestry $$

• U.S., Index to Quaker Obituary Notices, 1822-2012 on Ancestry $$

• Ancestry's indexed collection of U.S., Published Quaker Family Histories, 1845-1920 contains the following works (some of which are public domain and available on the web (some are better sourced than others, and discretion should be used when evaluating their reliability):
  • A Genealogical Sketch of the Family of Dr Arthur Stevenson
  • A Genealogy of the Taylor Family of Monmouth
  • A Reminiscent Record of Joel and Caroline Warder Cadbury
  • A Short Account of the Family of Fry, of Ashgrove Wiltshire
  • A Short Account of the Fowler Family, 1550-1891
  • Additions to the Genealogy of the Biddle Family
  • Akroyd and Ecroyd Family
  • Andrew Moore and His Descendants (2 volumes)
  • Annals of an East Anglian Bank
  • Annals of the early Friends (3 volumes)
  • Atkinson Ancestors, 1908
  • Auto-Biographical Narrations of the convincement and other Religious Experiences
  • Biographical Memoirs: A record of the Christian lives, experiences, and Deaths of Members to 1653
  • Bloomfield, the Chambers Homestead at Kennett Square, Pennsylvania: Memories and Records, 1817-1920
  • Brief Memoirs of the Barclay Family
  • Clovercroft Chronicles, 1314-1893
  • Cooper Family Register
  • Edward and Eleanor Foulke: Their Ancestry and Descendants, 1698-1898
  • Eliot Papers: Compiled from Family Papers of Eliot Howard
  • Family Chronicles: Blecklys and Springalls, Section 1
  • Family Chronicles: Ingram Chapman´s Descendants, Section 3
  • Family Chronicles: The Chapmans of Whitby and their Descendants
  • Family Letters, etc. Vol 1, Cadbury
  • Family Letters, etc. Vol 2, Barrow
  • Family Letters, etc. Vol 3, Cadbury
  • Family Letters, etc. Vol 4, Cadbury
  • Family Letters, etc. Vol 5, Gibbons
  • Family Memorials and Recollections: Aunt Mary´s Patchwork
  • Farm and Its Inhabitants with Some Account of the Lloyds Dolobran
  • First Reunion of the Wickersham Family
  • Fruits of Piety: Exhibited in a Collection of Narratives Respecting Children and Young Persons
  • Garrett Family Recollections
  • Gawthrop
  • Genealogical Record of the Hambleton Family, with Mention of other Hambletons
  • Genealogy of the Baily Family of Broham, Wiltshire, England
  • Genealogy of the Cadwalader Family Descended from John Cadwalader
  • Genealogy of the Fell Family in America
  • Genealogy of the Maule Family, with a Brief Account of Thomas Maule, of Salem, Massachusetts (2 volumes)
  • Genealogy of the William Tyler Family
  • George and Ralph Allen: One Line of their Descendants in New Jersey with Some Fragments of History
  • Glen Fern: Livezey House, on Wissahickon, East Fairmont Park, Philadelphia
  • Henry Baker and Some of His Descendant
  • Historical Genealogy of the Brown Family, Including A Brief History of Other Families
  • History and Genealogy of the American Descendants of John and Ann Chamness of London, England
  • History of the Borton and Mason Families in Europe and America
  • History of the Hodgson Family, 1665-1892
  • In Memoriam: The Sixty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary of Charles and Tacy Stokes
  • In the Old Time: A Short History of the Descendants of John Murray the Good
  • Leeds: A New Jersey Family
  • Memoirs of the Johnson Family with an Autobiography
  • Memorials of the Reading, Howell, Yerkes, Watts, Latham, and Elkins Families
  • Moore Chart
  • My Ancestors: Nicholson Family, 1675-1885
  • My Ancestors: Penney Family
  • Notes on the Genealogy of the Biddle Family, Together with Abstracts of Some Early Deeds
  • Our Ancestors the Stantons
  • Penn Family Pedigree
  • Quaker Worthies
  • Recollections of Spitalfields: An Honest Man and His Employers
  • Ringmer, the Springetts, and the Penns: A Chapter of Sussex History
  • Samuel Carpenter of Philadelphia and his Descendants
  • Some Annals of the Buffington Family
  • Some Colonial Ancestors of John Hopkins
  • Some Special Studies in Genealogy
  • The Barclays of Ury and other Sketches of the Early Friends
  • The Browns of Nottingham
  • The Cadbury Pedigree, 1904
  • The Cudworth Family
  • The Derivation of the American Family of Wistars and Wisters
  • The Descendants of John Backhouse, of Moss Side, Near Yealand Redman, Lancashire
  • The Descendants of Joran Kyn of New Sweden
  • The Dupuy Family
  • The Featherstones and Halls: Gleanings from Old Family Letters and Manuscripts
  • The Gibbins Pedigree, 1910
  • The Golden Wedding of Benjamin and Jane Price with Breif Family Record
  • The Gurneys of Earlham (2 volumes)
  • The Heacock family: Jonathan and Ann Heacock and their Descendants
  • The Head Family, 1905 and 1905 Supplement
  • The History of the Shinn Family in Europe and America
  • The Lancaster Family
  • The Mather Family of Cheltenham, Pennsylvania
  • The Pedigrees of Dickinson, Darby, Fowler and Rathbone
  • The Penns and Peningtons of the Seventeenth Century
  • The Quaker Janneys of Cheshire and their Progenitors
  • The Quaker Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
  • The Satterthwaite Genealogy
  • The Shoemaker Family
  • The Stephenson Brochure
  • The Steward Family of New Jersey
  • The Study of Quaker Genealogies
  • The Wings as Friends
  • The Wynnes: A Genealogical Summary of the Ancestry of the Welsh Wynnes
  • Thomas Coates Who Removed from England to the Province of Pennsylvania, 1683
  • Trustum and his Grandchildren
  • William Cooper of "Greenfield" Woodbury, New Jersey and his Cooper Ancestry
  • Wills and Administrations of the Various Blackhouse Families
• Weeks, Stephen B., Southern Quakers and Slavery, A Study in Institutional History." The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1896.

Irish Quakers

The Ireland Quakers team has a resources page here and a short history of the Irish Quakers here.

Books

• Grubb, Isabel. Quakers in Ireland, London, 1927.
• Goodbody, Olive C, Hutton, B. G and Irish Manuscripts Commission Guide to Irish Quaker records, 1654-1860. Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, 1967.
• Greaves, Richard L. Dublin's Merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643–1707. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998)
• Harrison, Richard S. A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Quakers. Four Courts Press, Dublin Ireland (1997). amazon.com, Hathi Trust. 2nd revised edition published 2008.
• Myers, Albert Cook (1874-1960). Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750 : with their early history in Ireland. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (1902). Internet Archive
• Vann, Richard T and David Eversley. Friends in Life and Death. British and Irish Quakers in the Demographic Transition. Cambridge University Press (1992). Cambridge Books Online
• Walsh, A.J. Meeting Houses of the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, School of Architecture, DIT Bolton Street (1969) South Dublin County Libraries

Websites

• Quakers in Ireland, the Official Website of The Religious Society of Friends in Ireland
• Ireland Quaker Records at FamilySearch.org
• National Library of Ireland catalog results for "Friends, Society of"
• Children Attending Mountmellick Quaker School, Co. Laois, 1786-94
• LAOIS, Selected Records Transcribed From the Society of Friends (Quakers)
• Society of Friends, Rosenallis
• The Annual Monitor or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland

See also

• Antelope sailed from Belfast Ireland to Pennsylvania in 1682. She is the only known ship of William Penn's fleet with an Irish connection.

Canadian Quakers

• Quakers in Canada

• The Canadian Quaker Genealogical Index

Canadian Cemetery Records

• Sparta Quaker Cemetery

Images

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