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Some Special Interests => Quaker Family History => Topic started by: willsy on Sunday 26 April 15 19:34 BST (UK)
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Thought I would share this link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-32381926
Might be useful to researchers and there were a few facts I will admit to not knowing!
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Very interesting, thank's for posting that, :)
Frank.
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The guys on the Eneclann stall at WDYTYA Live told me that the Irish Quaker records are going online in June. Anyone else hear this or know where to look?
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Eneclann are partners with FindMyPast so I suspect that is where any Irish Quaker records will go.
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Thank you.
If I read that right JC could be called a Quaker , as he rejected the systematic church, and set about as an evangelist. 8)
One of the difficulties I am finding in doing my family history is this reluctance or exclusion of Quakers for ''organised religion'' and the lack of , or difficulty , in accessing records.
So the news that at least the Irish records are going online gives me hope that somewhere down the track others may go online.
I have looked on Archive but downloading over 300 ''monthly meeting'' records didn't seem like a good way to spend a Sunday afternoon. ;D
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English Quaker BMds are on Ancestry
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English Quaker BMds are on Ancestry
I will look . Thank you :)
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Hi willsy, Thanks for this site. Is there a site for Quakers in early Tasmania, Australia.
Searching for a Mrs Eleanor ASCOUGH nee Harrison born 1807 Yorkshire England who visited quaker relatives in Tasmania from 1863 to 1865. Trying to discover who she stayed with in Tasmania. Can anyone help
Regards
clancam37
Thought I would share this link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-32381926
Might be useful to researchers and there were a few facts I will admit to not knowing!
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Thank you.
If I read that right JC could be called a Quaker , as he rejected the systematic church, and set about as an evangelist. 8)
One of the difficulties I am finding in doing my family history is this reluctance or exclusion of Quakers for ''organised religion'' and the lack of , or difficulty , in accessing records.
So the news that at least the Irish records are going online gives me hope that somewhere down the track others may go online.
I have looked on Archive but downloading over 300 ''monthly meeting'' records didn't seem like a good way to spend a Sunday afternoon. ;D
Hi - any use?
http://quakers-in-ireland.ie/historical-library/
CD
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Yes, I wrote to them about 4 weeks ago. They say all genealogical enquiries are handled when they have time. I guess they haven't had time yet. Not complaining, just trying to stay patient. :)
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I always thought that George Fox's vision came to him when he was up Pendle Hill.
The Quaker records I am interested in (mostly north of England) seem to be split between Ancestry, FindMyPast and The Genealogist.
There is only a little in the way of overlap - an event in a Monthly Meeting might be in one set, with the matching Quarterly Meeting reference in another.
The detail, though, is much better than the CofE records of the same period, and the writing seems to be much clearer. Quakers have always put great value on education.
To read the marriage vows made by a couple, carefully written down over 300 years ago, is quite moving.
Then you realise that the numerous witnesses whose names appear at the bottom of the page had attended an illegal meeting and were, in effect, confessing to a crime.