Quakers in Wiltshire

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Surnames/tags: Quakers Wiltshire

This page is for information and resources for Quakers in Wiltshire.

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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

• Charlcote Monthly Meeting, also spelt Charlecote (united with Chippenham and Lavington Monthly Meetings in 1775 to form Wiltshire Monthly Meeting)
• Chippenham Monthly Meeting (united with Charlcote and Lavington Monthly Meetings in 1775 to form Wiltshire Monthly Meeting)
• Lavington Monthly Meeting, also called North Lavington Monthly Meerting and sometimes referred to as the South West Division of Wiltshire (united with Charlcote and Chippenham Monthly Meetings in 1775 to form Wiltshire Monthly Meeting)
• North Somerset and Wiltshire Monthly Meeting (from 1876)
• Salisbury Monthly Meeting (merged into Lavington Monthly Meeting in 1717)
• Wiltshire Monthly Meeting (1775-1876)

Cemeteries

• Devizes Friends Burial Ground
• Hullavington Friends Burial Ground
• Marlborough Friends Burial Ground
• Melksham Friends Burial Ground
• Salisbury Friends Burial Ground

Meeting Houses

• Bradford on Avon, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Devizes, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Marlborough, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Salisbury, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Swindon, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023

Websites

• Quaker Family History Society website - Wiltshire
• Wiltshire Online Parish Clerks - Wiltshire Quaker Burials, accessed 27 January 2020
• Wiltshire Online Parish Clerks - The Quakers in East Tytherton by Nigel Pocock with Andrew Laurence & Terry Benton, accessed 24 February 2024: gives some general information about Quakers in Wiltshire

Publications

• Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. II, pp. 37-49, Chapter II, Wiltshire, Hathi Trust
• The Society of Friends in Wiltshire, paper for guidance of those working on the Victoria County History of Wiltshire, PDF, accessed 27 January 2020
• Kay S Taylor. Chalk, Cheese, and Cloth: The Settling of Quaker Communities in Seventeenth-Century Wiltshire, 'Quaker Studies', Vol. 10 issue 2, 2006, George Fox University website, accessed 27 January 2020
• "Quakerism in Wiltshire", Wiltshire Notes and Queries, Volume 5 1905-1907. Phillimore & Co, London (1908) Google Books