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Some Special Interests => Quaker Family History => Topic started by: alunno-a on Monday 31 March 08 16:30 BST (UK)
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Apologies for using "Quaker" rather than Society of Friends---I needed to short-hand for the subject title.
Does any one know the address and correct name for the burial ground for Friends in Leeds 1860- 1930 ish??? i have a document which just says, "died at Leeds, buried in the Friends Burial Grnd near there".
Thank-you for the help, Sally
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This is a quote I found whist searching Leeds University online library, taken from the carlton Hill archives, Leeds Adel preparative meeting
This Meeting was settled in 1928 as an offshoot of Carlton Hill Meeting. It formed part of the recently created Leeds Monthly Meeting and became a full Preparative Meeting in 1938. Land given by Hannah Baker at Adel was used to create a burial ground in 1868, after the closure of Leeds: Meadow Lane burial ground. A keeper's cottage, with a small Meeting House attached, was built in 1872 and it was this building which Adel Meeting used for worship. The Meeting flourished, but plans for enlarging the Meeting House were postponed by the Second World War and never carried out. The Meeting is still in existence.
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The records are deposited and remain the property of the Society of Friends.
Contents Minutes of Preparative Meeting, 1940-1979 (5 vols.) [OO 1, 11-14]; Record of burials at Adel burial ground, 1868-1891 (1 vol.)
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/quaker/quakdes1.htm#births
there is a link to the page explaining the Archives, a lot of meetings held duplicate books.
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As well as the Adel burying site there is one at Rawdon. (6 miles out of Leeds)
Brian
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Hello
As previously mentioned Leeds University Special Collections Library have a large Quaker collection deposited, for various places in the County of York, as I was enquiring if they had a George Hood of Selby (died Selby 18 September 1845). They sent me a link and told me that they had the burials all online, but I can't get it to work or understand how their online search works, I'll look out the link and post it and see what you make of it?
York Quakers also sent me this link to a pdf document of Yorkshire Quaker burial grounds ...
http://www.yorkquakers.org.uk/Resources/Burial%20Grounds%202015.pdf
Which might be of general interest?
Apparently, there were 20 burial grounds in the York area, but only 5 now remain in the ownership of the Friends per pdf doc.
When I enquired with the Quakers burial email address quoted in pdf doc, regarding William Hood of Selby, a Quaker according to Society of Friends - "The Annual Monitor" of 1871 (scanned and available free online), mentioning Wm Hood, Selby, who died 1870, their burial email only responded regarding the York burial ground, saying their Register had no Hood burials listed, at York.
I am looking for nine burials, of 9 Hood deaths at Selby, between 1845 and 1879! Just to see if it will assist me in getting back to / or confirm the previous generation.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=728231.396
In 1835 George Hood of Selby, was sub-letting part of his business premises at Selby to a John Green and a daughter of John Green was later married in 1848 at Selby, by an Independent Minister, which may / may not suggest George Hood was an Independent dissenter?
Kind regards, Mark
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Link for you Mark:
http://hullhistorycentre.org.uk/quaker/index.htm
Brian
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Link for you Mark:
http://hullhistorycentre.org.uk/quaker/index.htm
Brian
2nd reply from Leeds after requesting a 2nd burial check ...
I am afraid that due to staffing levels we are unable to undertake anything other than very preliminary research on behalf of readers. However, the Quaker indexes are searchable online outside of the library so you should be able to retrieve this information remotely to ascertain if there are any other Hoods present in our holdings: http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/Quaker%20Collection%20Index
All best wishes with your research,
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Thanks Brian
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/Quaker%20Collection%20Index
I can't find the burials database?
Kind regards, Mark
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At Leeds University Special Collections (Quaker Collection) there are 232 listings of burial records for various places when searching - burial ...
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/Quaker%20Collection%20Index?query=burial&browseQuery=Search&selection=Quaker+Collection+Index&collectionGroup=Quaker+Collection&debug=0&displayOption=list&resultLength=15&sortBy=Relevance
Regards Mark
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Using your last link as an example:
I entered my lot by surname only, this advised me that on certain pages in the collection I would be able to read the factual information recorded.
So I would say this is an index only!
Brian
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Hello Brian
Yes, it seems only names that appear in Quaker documents appear to be mentioned / indexed.
Regards Mark