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Monthly Meetings
Please note that the Quakers Project uses Monthly Meetings for categorisation purposes, not Quarterly Meetings or local Preparative Meetings
- Alton, Southampton and Poole Monthly Meeting
- Bridport Monthly Meeting (1668-1783, included Sherborne until 1690, remerged with Sherborne in 1783 to form Bridport and Sherborne Monthly Meeting)
- Bridport and Sherborne Monthly Meeting (1783-1804 when it became part of Shaftesbury, Bridport and Sherborne Monthly Meeting)
- Poole Monthly Meeting
- Poole and Southampton Monthly Meeting
- Shaftesbury Monthly Meeting (split from Sherborne Monthly Meeting about 1743, became part of Shaftesbury, Bridport and Sherborne Monthly Meeting in 1804)
- Shaftesbury , Bridport and Sherborne Monthly Meeting (from 1804). Later called Shaftesbury and Sherborne Monthly Meeting
- Sherborne Monthly Meeting (separated from Bridport Monthly Meeting in 1790, merged into Bridport and Sherborne Monthy Meeting in 1783)
- Weymouth and Dorchester Monthly Meeting (1668-1753, when it joined Bridport Monthly Meeting)
Cemeteries
- Ashgrove Friends Burial Ground, near Shaftesbury
- Bridport Friends Burial Ground
- Dorchester Friends Burial Ground
- Poole Friends Burial Ground
- Shaftesbury Friends Burial Ground
Meeting Houses
- Bournemouth (historically in Hampshire), Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
- Bridport, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
- Dorchester, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
- Poole, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
- Shaftesbury, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
Websites
- Online Parish Clerks, Dorset - Society of Friends (Quakers) in Dorchester Dorset (1655-1833) (contains lists of names)
- Quaker Family History Society website - Dorset
Publications
- Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I, pp. 165-172, Chapter XII, Dorsetshire, Hathi Trust