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Yes! They were truly brilliant. Honestly, I think they inspired all my subsequent interest in history, and especially in archives. If it wasn't for the Jackdaw folders I would never have become our de facto family archivist.

I see there are still American Jackdaws. I wish we still had ours in the UK.

Monthly meeting minute books, and lots of other local Quaker records, can be found in county record offices, Martin. You'd first need to know which Quarterly meeting included the Monthly meeting. Quarterly meetings roughly correspond to the old counties, so that should give you a steer - but it's not an exact correspondence.

If you go to http://qfhs.co.uk/public_html/contents.htm#Locating%20meeting%20records (the Quaker Family History Society website), and scroll down to the bottom of the page, you'll find a list of counties. Click on the one that interest you, and it'll take you to a page saying where the local records are held.

Ben

There's a bit in Edward H. Milligan's Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry, in his article on William Hoyland, that adds some detail on Barbara. It reads (in part): "He married in 1787 Barbara Wheeler (1764-1829). Of the eight children recorded in Quaker registers, three sons and two daughters survived to adulthood. Barbara Wheeler had been brought up in the Established Church and (her parents having both died before she was out of her teens) she lived for a time with a family where she became 'unhappily entangled in the specious snares of scepticism and infidelity' (Testimony). When, however, at the age of 21, she visited friends in Yorkshire, she came to see these views as 'the innovations of folly, false philosophy and vain deceit' (ibid. She resumed church-going and, as she was not a Friend, the marriage was of neccesity 'before the priest'; for this William Hoyland was disowned by Balby MM. Their first years of married life were at 'Myrtle Bank', Handsworth Woodhouse, east of the town. In 1790, while in Sheffield itself and unable to get to her usual church, she attended Sheffield meeting and, later becoming convinced of Friends' principles and method of worship, was accepted into membership in 1792, her husband being reinstated shortly afterwards. Her gift in the vocal ministry was acknowledged by the monthly meeting." She moved to Bradford a few years after her husband's death.

Milligan cites the Testimony of Brighouse MM concerning Barbara Hoyland, in 'Testimonies concerning ministers deceased', v.350-3

On a personal note, William Frazer Hoyland, son of William and Barbara Hoyland, married my 1st cousin 5x removed, Hannah Walker.

Only if the parents weren't Quakers at the time - though they could have joined the Society of Friends later.

When I enter 'Vaus' in the search box it comes up with 31 entries. These include 9 births, but of variant spellings. Some of these could be relevant.

The earliest Vaus burial entries are all for people born before the start of Quakerism (usually taken as 1652). So you wouldn't expect to find their births in Quaker records (though sometimes these are recorded retrospectively).

Yes, definitely Quaker. All the Quaker BMDs for England & Wales, up to 1837, are now on Ancestry. PRO Class RG 6.

There is a biographical entry on John Winder Watson in Edward H. Milligan's Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775-1920 (2007, Sessions Book Trust).

Ben