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Quaker Family History Society
« on: Tuesday 09 April 19 22:25 BST (UK) »
We meet at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday 11th May at Redlands Friends Meeting, Bristol for a day focusing on Quaker family history in the Bristol area.
The meeting is open to all but please book your place in advance to avoid disappointment.
   
We start with A History of the Redland Meeting by Roger Sturge.
Other talks are on
- JS Fry and Sons by Alan Freke
- The astonishing success of early Quakerism in Bristol.
   by Jonathan Harlow, UWE Regional History Centre
- Bristol Area Meeting's Library and Archive by Christine Tollerton, Bristol Area Meeting
- An Ancient Friend of good memory: the lives of John and Margaret Heale (d1683) and their family    by Stephen Bumstead, QFHS committee member
- The Yorkshire Quaker Joseph Wood (1750-1821) visits Bath and Bristol Friends.
   by Janet Pickering

There will be an opportunity to examine books and photographs in the Library,
   guided by Christine Tollerton
The Meeting closes at 16:30.

Lunch is not provided but tea/coffee will be available.
There is a charge of £10 per person, payable on the day
Please book your place in advance. Contact:   info@qfhs.co.uk
Further details are on our website under https://qfhs.co.uk/public_html/society/Bristol%20programme%20v3.pdf


Thompsons (of Rothwell and Ackworth Yorkshire); Binns, Spence, Dougill (all Quakers); Langley (of Yaxley and Stilton Huntingdonshire and Wentworth, Yorkshire); Coopers (of Eakring, Notts.); Cock(c)roft (of Lancs. and Yorkshire); Marshall (of Derbyshire); Alp and Mills (of Beccles Suffolk)