Banbury Quakers - Where were they buried?

[onefortheroad]

We're on holiday from Yorkshire and staying just outside Banbury.
On a trip to the Oxford Record Office a couple of days ago, we discovered that my wifes' rellies, the Fardons, were Quakers back in the 17th & 18th centuries.
The quaker burial records give them as being buried in Banbury.
However, the current  meeting house doesn't appear to have a burial ground and we can find no record of such a place in Banbury.
Does anyone have any idea as to where the early burials may have taken place ?


Many thanks,

David.

[behindthefrogs]

I think Quaker Burial grounds were often away from their meeting houses.  There was one at Adderbury which is not far from Banbury but that may be a red herring

David

[onefortheroad]

Thanks a lot for the reply, David.

We've checked out Adderbury, but the ancestors we are after are not there.

We'll keep looking!

Thanks again.

David.

[Dee the gardener]

There is a Quaker burial ground at Sibford Gower, about 5 miles from Banbury. It is opposite and down the hill from a wonderful Cotswold pub called the Wykham Arms (the map on the pub website will help you find it: www.wykhamarms.co.uk/).

If you are still searching for info, I've probably got a contact number for one of the Friends who manages the burial ground, and might have a list of burials, but I don't want to post it publicly. I'm new to this site - is there a way to communicate 'offline'?

There is also a Quaker Boarding school at Sibford Ferris, the next village, where you might be able to find more information.

Dee

[philheeks]

Have a look at OFHS site to see if they have this covered with disk or fiche

Good hunting

Phil
OFHS member 4711

[Redroger]

There was a Quaker cemetary in Doncaster, some three miles from the meeting house. In the mid 1980s when there had been no burials there since 1931, the cemetary was cleared for redevelopment, and the remains reinterred in a special dedicated plot in the borough cemetary. It might be worthwhile contacting the municipal archive for Banbury to see whether a similar event took place there, or alternatively contact the manager of the local cemetary.

[onefortheroad]

Hi Phil and Redroger.

Thanks to you both for your replies.
We've been on the OFHS website and may follow that line although certain parts of the site have suspect security issues :  As soon as I clicked the 'visit ofhs' link, I received a bogus spyware warning supposedly from Microsoft but there is no 'switch off' facility. McAfee and Norton are both incapable of stopping  this !  I'm just hoping that I re-started my pc in time, if not I look like having to completely wipe the hard-drive and reinstall. I had the same thing in 2009 on a previous pc - it's evil!!!  It wants to direct you to a site where you can buy anti-malware/spyware downloads. When you buy them, all you get is a computerload of viruses, trojans, and other nasties.  And you cannot get rid of the warning window!
Anyway, on checking the McAfee Site Advisor, some parts of the OFHS website have not been passed as problem free. So we'll have to find a way round that one.

In September we checked with the authorities in Banbury to see if there were any Quaker burials in the municpal cemetery but apparently there aren't. It would seem that there never were Quaker burials in Banbury itself, only in the surrounding areas.

Thanks again you two for your help.

Regards,  David

[Steph]

I have the Witney Quaker regs from OFHS with the following Fardons (also Farndons are poss misspelling) on it:

Births:
Ann Fardon  1768
Deborah 1759
Elizabeth 1770
John 1762
Lydia 1766
Mary 1761
Mary 1764
Sarah 1774
William 1776
Ann Farndon b 1790
Elizabeth Farndon 1794
John Farndon 1799
Thomas Farndon 1783

Marriage:
1795 29 Apr RUTTER Joseph draper of Birmingham, s. John & Hannah of Witney and FARDON Sarah d. John & Elizabeth of Witney

Burials:
Mary d/o John & Elizabeth 17 Jun 1763
Mary 28 Mar 1783 age approx 19
Elizabeth 28 Jul 1786 age approx 15
Lydia 16 Mr 1788, d. John & Eliz, age 21
Ann Farndon 10 Nov 1790 d/o John & Eliz, age 22
Elizabeth Farndon w. John, shopkeeper 12 Dec 1794 age 59
John Farndon 18 Jan 1799 age 64, mercer
Thomas Farndon 13 Apr 1783 age 44

Could these help



Regards
Steph

[Redroger]

My recollection of the Doncaster Quaker burial ground is that the ground was used by Quakers from the sub-regional surrounding area, so I suggest that the search for the burial ground be made on this sort of basis. Regarding the Oxford FHS site, I hope that there is more than one member of their society who takes the matter up with their webmaster. As you say it is evil, I am not going to tempt fate by saying that so far I have been clear, but I always try not to download anything that looks in the least suspicious, like an email (now deleted) saying that my NatWest account has been compromised. Though I like the idea of on line banking, I have decided it is not for me until security issues have been resolved.