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Quaker Records?

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Marion

Marion Report 19 Feb 2005 16:04

Thanks everyone for your suggestions, need to look into this further as I currently have no confirmation that my family had Quaker connections. Marion

Unknown

Unknown Report 19 Feb 2005 14:45

Quakers refused the C of E ffices and established their own birth (don't have baptisms) marriage & burial registers. Some registers survive from 1656 when Meetings were ordered to keep them. Minutes of Meeting also include requests to marry which can be v. informative. Quaker registers of births, marriages & burials from 1656 - 20 June 1837 were given to the Registrar General in 1840 and there are 1,620 registers at Kew, in series RG 6 which ocntain about 250,000 births, 40,000 marriages and 300,000 burials. A few registers not surrendered at are the County Records Offices or the Friend's House Library. The National Archives at Kew also have post-1837 Quaker registers. The Friends' House Library has microfilm copies of digest of the registers and so does the Society of genealogists. www.quaker.org.uk is the website of the Society of Friends. And it would be worth contacting the relevant County Records Office to see what Quaker holdings they have. - info from Ancestral Trails by Mark Herber. nell

Peter

Peter Report 19 Feb 2005 13:42

Had a look round and got this www.quaker.org.uk/main.html this is the HQ of the Quakers UK you could try contacting them. I also found lots of Quaker meeting halls by just puting 'Quakers in uk'. in search.

Sandra

Sandra Report 19 Feb 2005 13:36

sorry don't know about quaker records, but have you looked on family search site sandra

Marion

Marion Report 19 Feb 2005 13:32

Anyone have access to Quaker records or could point me in the right direction to find a family in Bristol UK early 1800's? Tried the records board with no response, Marion