Quakers in County Durham

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Surnames/tags: Quakers County Durham

This page is for information and resources for Quakers in County Durham.

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Contents 1 Monthly Meetings 2 Cemeteries 3 Meeting Houses 4 Websites 5 Publications

Monthly Meetings

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

• Darlington Monthly Meeting (previously Stockton Monthly Meeting)
• Gateshead Monthly Meeting
• Raby Monthly Meeting (became Staindrop Monthly Meeting)
• Staindrop Monthly Meeting (previously Raby Monthly Meeting)
• Stockton Monthly Meeting (became Darlington Monthly Meeting)

Cemeteries

• Bishop Auckland Friends Burial Ground
• Darlington Friends Burial Ground
• North Shields Friends Burial Ground
• Norton Friends Burial Ground
• Staindrop Friends Burial Ground
• Sunderland Friends Burial Ground

Meeting Houses

• Darlington, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Norton, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Sunderland, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023

Websites

• About Darlington (Darlington local history website) - Guide to the friends Burial Ground, accessed 20 December 2019: includes information about some prominent Darlington Quakers
• Durham Records Online - Quaker marriages 1776-1793 and burials 1776-1789, accessed 20 December 2019 (includes some names)
• Quaker Family History Society website - Durham

Publications

• Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I, pp. 173-190, Chaper XIII, Durham and Northumberland, Hathi Trust