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Quaker ancestors
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Maddie | Report | 17 Sep 2015 12:33 |
my 9th x grandfather was imprisoned in 1665 and 1668 for being Quakers. His son arrived in Pennsylvania in 1685 aboard the Rebecca from Liverpool with his famiiy. |
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magpie | Report | 16 Sep 2015 15:51 |
My g.g.uncle married into a Quaker family from Margate, Kent, and went onto to teach in Quaker School in Somerset. My Grandfather attended this School in 1903-1908. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 16 Sep 2015 05:12 |
OH's 4 x gt grandfather is the one said to have been a Quaker preacher. His possible ancestor, or maybe only a side link, went on the Second Fleet to Pennsylvania in 1683 with his wife and children |
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JoonieCloonie | Report | 16 Sep 2015 01:51 |
I keep getting DNA matches with descendants of a Quaker family from Rickmansworth some of whom preceded Penn to his colony (which results in me having matches with people in both England and the US who are all still missing a link or two between themselves) |
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JoyLouise | Report | 16 Sep 2015 00:28 |
Oops, slip there. It was my grandfather's family also on my mother's side that supposedly had the Quakers that I've been unable to trace - my maternal grandfather, same as my maternal grandmother. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 16 Sep 2015 00:23 |
No, Lynda, I have none. The Quakers are not down my direct line. |
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Annx | Report | 15 Sep 2015 21:19 |
Yes I have quite a few back in the 16 and 1700s. :-) Mine were the Nixons who settled in Pennsylvania in the early days. They were always on the move with children born in different places but I assumed, maybe wrongly that it was to do with spreading the word. Some came back to England too. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 15 Sep 2015 03:39 |
One of OH's ancestors back in the early 19th century was reckoned to be a devout Quaker who preached at Brigg Flatts .......... but he and all his family were married in church |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 15 Sep 2015 01:35 |
There is a little more to it than that ;-) |
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Lynda ~ | Report | 14 Sep 2015 21:58 |
I'd make a great Quaker Rollo, I don't drink,so I'd be a model one :-D |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 14 Sep 2015 21:56 |
lots and lots .... if yr rellies are getting married etc in places called anything like "Great Meeting" Or "Great Meeting House" then they were/are Quakers. |
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Lynda ~ | Report | 14 Sep 2015 21:55 |
Shame they weren't Rose, you'd know all about them :-) |
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JoyLouise | Report | 14 Sep 2015 21:51 |
I have some in my Tree - in my Brooker family. One of them wrote about the Quakers of Cumbria. |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 14 Sep 2015 21:47 |
Can you find his burial ??? |
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Rambling | Report | 14 Sep 2015 21:46 |
Would be very useful then Lynda, but no, none of mine were Quakers. |
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Lynda ~ | Report | 14 Sep 2015 21:44 |
Someone who has my 4x Great Grandfather in their tree, thinks he was a Quaker, I can't find any real evidence that he was, but while investigating the records she gave me, I see that birth records give the names of those who attended the birth, and marriage records give names of those who attended the wedding, even down to the bridegrooms mothers name who and a different surname saying that she had remarried after her first husbands death. |
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Lynda ~ | Report | 14 Sep 2015 21:37 |
Have you got any? |