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Some Special Interests => Quaker Family History => Topic started by: vonne on Wednesday 11 April 12 08:40 BST (UK)
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Hi ,
Dose anyone know where the Quaker Burial Ground in the Chester area was in 1744 ?
Thanks
Vonne
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http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-436807-quaker-burial-ground-wall-now-garden-wal
Could this link help - it was from 1686 and altered in 1856.
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I thnik that this maybe the correct place .I did a little further investigation this morning
I have just found that there may be a list of burials there in " Burials in the Quaker Burial Ground at Newton near Frodsham, 1658 to 1835. "published bt a Alan Taylor in 2003 .
Fingers crossed that my Neville family will be list in it
Many Thanks for your help . :)
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Vonne,
Completely new to this, but noticed you had an interest in Cornthwaite`s of Caton.
My Great grandfather William Knowles CORNTHWAITE left Caton in 1865 for New Zealand.
His parents were Christopher K CORNTHWAITE and Margaret (nee BURTON).
Siblings were Thomas,Michael,Margaret,Robert ,Elizabeth,John and Christopher.
Thanks
Scott
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Hiya Vonne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frodsham
go down to where it states Notes and read Note 3 ...a little snippet about Newton / Newton by Frodsham - there is a member on here from Frodsham - hopefully she will read this post and maybe give you some advice ..
good luck....as a last resort - I live right opposite Frosdham across the River Mersey in Garston...to get to Frodsham would take me 20 minutes by car ..my wife and I sometimes go to The Bears Paw pub for a Sunday lunch in Frodsham ...so - on a nice day , I could take a look around the burial site for you if you wish ...
allan
added...the Quaker Family History Society has a section on Newton from 1668 - 1794
http://www.qfhs.co.uk/public_html/research/counties/cheshire.htm
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I thnik that this maybe the correct place .I did a little further investigation this morning
I have just found that there may be a list of burials there in " Burials in the Quaker Burial Ground at Newton near Frodsham, 1658 to 1835. "published bt a Alan Taylor in 2003 .
Fingers crossed that my Neville family will be list in it
Many Thanks for your help . :)
I have a photocopy of that list, there are no Neville`s there.
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Thanks for letting me know .
Do you know other Quaker burial sites /records in the area ?
They lived at Tranmere /Parkgate and were mariners
From wills - I know that Frances Nevell died 13 December 1744 Chester her son Edward Tyzack Nevell died 1748.
Thanks
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just Googling Cheshire Quaker Burial grounds came up with some results, one in Burton on the Wirral,
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engqfhs/Research/counties/cheshire.htm
Cheshire Records Office has the records on Monthly meetings, this is where the Newton transcripts came from.
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Thank for the information.I am going to have a trip over to the Cheshire Archives in November -so this is now on the list tolook up .
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At last found my Neville family Quaker burials - Cow lane in Chester .It is now Frodsham street.I believe that the modern Quaker meeting house is in that area today .I wonder if its built on the same ground ?
Thank for all the help
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You can see the Friends Meeting House (Quakers), and grave yard, on the 1875 Town Plan at http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?coords=340770,366489
Stan
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Present meeting house Google Street View http://goo.gl/maps/P9iAw That area has been redeveloped and the graveyard will be under Tesco's store and car park..
Stan
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Thank you what a great clear map .Now trying to figure out what is on the area today and when it was demolished . Thanks again
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The meeting house latest update - The second oldest place of Dissenting worship in the city, the meeting house in Frodsham Street was re modelled in the 19th century and repaired in 1960, but structural weaknesses in the building persuaded the Friends to sell it to a commercial developer for demolition in 1975, after which the society moved into new rooms, purpose-built over shops on the same site but entered from Union Walk rather than Frodsham Street, where they continued to meet in 2000.
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Thanks Stan .That is the second lot of my direct ancestors buried under a supermarket car park !
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Thanks Stan .That is the second lot of my direct ancestors buried under a supermarket car park !
Hi - just come across this & interested as I'm actually in Chester. My husband - Chester born & bred
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Yep, Tesco's car park seems about right,but your ancestors are in good company - remember the
discovery of Richard 111?
Everlea.
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Frodsham St., Union Walk, photograph of the Construction of Tesco complex off Frodsham Street.
https://www.hpacde.org.uk/cheshire/jpgl/cn0100.jpg
Cheshire Image Bank http://cheshireimagebank.org.uk/index.php
Stan