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Title: Quaker Conversion
Post by: supermoussi on Saturday 14 January 12 20:44 GMT (UK)
Does anyone know whether children born into Quaker families usually stuck to "Quakerism" or was it quite common for them and their descendants to switch to other forms of Christianity like Baptism, etc? e.g. if there was a quaker husband and wife in 1700 how likely would it be for their great grandchildren to be, say, Baptists in 1800?

Thanks.
Title: Re: Quaker Conversion
Post by: charlotteCH on Saturday 14 January 12 21:14 GMT (UK)
I don't think there would be any statistics on that, and I'd say it's close to impossible to know.

I don't know if the quakers kept records back then.

Not much help ... sorry... but that's my reaction.

charlotte
Title: Re: Quaker Conversion
Post by: osprey on Saturday 14 January 12 21:20 GMT (UK)
one of the reasons that Quakers were allowed to conduct their own marriages after Hardwicke's act of 1753 was that they kept such good records.The records go back to the 1650s.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engqfhs/Research/records.htm

 ;)
Title: Re: Quaker Conversion
Post by: Old Bristolian on Saturday 14 January 12 21:21 GMT (UK)
Many of the Quaker communities kept very good records and all are available through websites i believe. I certainly have two ancestors who were brought up Quakers, but reverted to the C of E in the 1730/40s. I presume it was for social reasons rather than religious, but I'm sure some may have changed to other Christian branches

Steve
Title: Re: Quaker Conversion
Post by: charlotteCH on Saturday 14 January 12 21:40 GMT (UK)
osprey, that's an excellent site to which you have posted the link :) 

Thank you... something new to learn every day.

charlotte
Title: Re: Quaker Conversion
Post by: meles on Saturday 14 January 12 21:56 GMT (UK)
My Quaker ancestors did not keep good records!  ::)

So frustrated. I have all these little gaps and brick walls.

Ho hum.

meles
Title: Re: Quaker Conversion
Post by: pinefamily on Saturday 14 January 12 22:34 GMT (UK)
From what I understand of the Quakers, they were not as strict and rigid as other sects/branches. Unlike today, where if you leave the faith that you or your family belong to you are shunned and cut off.
Title: Re: Quaker Conversion
Post by: Temic on Sunday 15 January 12 09:19 GMT (UK)
Quote from: pinefamily on Saturday 14 January 12 22:34 GMT (UK)
Unlike today, where if you leave the faith that you or your family belong to you are shunned and cut off.
That's unlikely to happen in the UK.
Title: Re: Quaker Conversion
Post by: supermoussi on Sunday 15 January 12 09:24 GMT (UK)
Thanks all.  :)

I haven't had time to read through all the stuff yet but will in due course.

One thing that immediately confuses me is where the best place to look for more info is. Basic quaker BMDs deposited at the Nat Archives are available online at BMDRegisters and I guess the Friendly Society is always worth a try, but would local archives like the Bucks RO, the LMA and even the Society of Genealogists have more?
Title: Re: Quaker Conversion
Post by: Valda on Sunday 15 January 12 10:24 GMT (UK)
Hi

The place to research in the Friends Library in London

http://www.quaker.org.uk/library


Regards


Valda