Quakers in Buckinghamshire

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Contents 1 Monthly Meetings 2 Cemeteries 3 Meeting Houses 4 Websites 5 Bedfordshire & Luton Archives and Records Service 6 Publications

Monthly Meetings

Please note that the Quakers Project uses Monthly Meetings for categorisation purposes, not Quarterly Meetings or local Preparative Meetings

• Biddlesden Monthly Meeting
• Buckingham Monthly Meeting
• Jordans Monthly Meeting (from 1925)
• Upperside Monthly Meeting (joined with Leighton Monthly Meeting, Befordshire in 1857 to form Upperside and Leighton Monthly Meeting)
  • Minute Book of Upperside Monthly Meeting, 1669-1690, Buckinghamshire Record Society, 1937
• Upperside and Leighton Monthly Meeting (from 1857; Jordans Monthly Meeting created in 1925, covering broadly the area that had been in Upperside Monthly Meeting)

Cemeteries

• Amersham Friend Burial Ground
• Aylesbury Friends Burial Ground
• Buckingham Friends Burial Ground
• Chesham Friends Burial Ground
• Chipping Wycombe Friends Burial Ground
• Haddenham Friends Burial Ground
• High Wycombe Friends Burial Ground
  • Christopher Farrand. The Friends Burial Ground at High Wycombe, Quaker Connections (magazine of the Quaker Family History Society), number 78, November 2019, pp. 23-26
  • FindAGrave: High Wycombe Friends Burial Ground, accessed 11 December 2019. Includes a list of surnames.
• Hogstye End Friends Burial Ground (Hogstye End is now called Woburn Sands)
  • Woburn Sands Collection website, Woburn Sands Collection – Friends Inscriptions, accessed 23 July 2023
• Jordans Friends Burial Ground
  • Jordans Burial Ground website

Meeting Houses

• Amersham, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 29 July 2023
• Aylesbury, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 29 July 2023
• Chesham, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• High Wycombe, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Hogsty End (now called Woburn Sands), Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Jordans, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Milton Keynes, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023

Websites

• Quaker Family History Society website - Buckinghamshire
• Woburn Sands Collection website (accessed 23 July 2023)
  • Woburn Sands Quaker Meeting House – Hogstye House
  • Richard Edward White, and the Hogsty End Friends Meeting House

Bedfordshire & Luton Archives and Records Service

National Archives catalog record : FR Society of Friends (Quakers) 1669-1995

(FR1) Bedfordshire Quarterly Meeting

(FR2) Luton and Leighton Monthly Meeting and precursors

(FR3) Albans Monthly Meeting

Guide to Non-Anglican registers at the Bedfordshire & Luton Archives

Ampthill * Bedford * Buckinghamshire * Leighton Buzzard * Luton * St Albans * Woburn Sands, Hogsty End

Bedford : Bunyan Meeting : baptisms : 1848-1861 : BY 17/2

Bedford : Bunyan Meeting : burials : 1846-1855 : BY 17/3

Bedford : Bunyan Meeting : births and baptisms : 1785-1837 : MIC 150

Bedford : Bunyan Meeting : births and baptisms : 1805-1837 : MIC 150

Buckinghamshire : Quakers : births : 1645-1837 : FR 2/10/5/44

Buckinghamshire : Quakers : marriages : 1658-1835 : FR 2/10/5/45

Buckinghamshire : Quakers : burials : 1656-1837 : FR 2/10/5/46

Leighton Buzzard : Quakers : births : 1776-1958 : FR 2/9/6-7

Leighton Buzzard : Quakers : marriage clearances : 1676-1871 : FR 2/9/1-5

Leighton Buzzard : Quakers : marriage clearances : 1778-1923 : FR 2/9/8

Leighton Buzzard Quakers/Society of Friends Burial Ground: see FR/28/1-5

Luton : Quakers : births : 1776-1958 : FR 2/9/6-7

Luton : Quakers : marriage clearances : 1676-1871 : FR 2/9/1-5

Luton : Quakers : marriage clearances : 1778-1923 : FR 2/9/8

Luton : Quakers : burials : 1776-1963 : FR 2/9/9-11

Luton : Quakers : burials : 1801-1864 : FR 16/11/11

Woburn Sands [Buckinghamshire], Hogsty End : Quakers : births : 1837-1882 : FR 4/9/6

Woburn Sands [Buckinghamshire], Hogsty End : Quakers : births : 1855-1864 : FR 4/9/14

Woburn Sands [Buckinghamshire], Hogsty End : Quakers : marriages : 1728-1857 : FR 4/9/9

Woburn Sands [Buckinghamshire], Hogsty End : Quakers : marriages : 1840-1864 : FR 4/9/8

Woburn Sands [Buckinghamshire], Hogsty End : Quakers : marriages : 1855-1864 : FR 4/9/14

Woburn Sands [Buckinghamshire], Hogsty End : Quakers : burials : 1704-1929 : FR 4/9/10-12

Woburn Sands [Buckinghamshire], Hogsty End : Quakers : burials : 1855-1864 : FR 4/9/14

Publications

• Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I , Chapter V, pp. 75-84, Buckinghamshire, Hathi Trust
• G Eland. A Meeting Place of the Early Quakers in Buckinghamshire, Buckingham Archaeological Society website
• Hugh and Joyce Mellor. Seekers and Finders: Quakers in High Wycombe 1650-2000, a Brief History, William Sessions, 2003
• John Steevens and Christopher Farrand. The Steevens Family of High Wycombe, Quaker Connections (magazine of the Quaker Family History Society), number 76, March 2019, pp. 6-19