Quakers in Cheshire

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Surnames/tags: Quakers Cheshire

This page is for information and resources for Quakers in Cheshire.

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Contents 1 Monthly Meetings 2 Cemeteries 3 Meeting Houses 4 Websites 5 Publications

Monthly Meetings

Please note that the Quakers Project uses Monthly Meetings for categorisation purposes, not Quarterly Meetings or local Preparative Meetings

• Cheshire Monthly Meeting (from 1831)
• Frandley Monthly Meeting (renamed from Newton, subsequently merged with Nantwich in 1794)
• Frandley and Nantwich Monthly Meeting (1794-1831, merged into Cheshire MM)
• Morley Monthly Meeting (1668-1831, merged into Cheshire MM)
• Nantwich Monthly Meeting (merged with Frandley in 1794)
• Newton Monthly Meeting (later renamed as Frandley)

Cemeteries

• Ashton-upon-Mersey Friends Burial Ground, Sale
• Chester Friends Burial Ground
  • FindAGrave cemetery page
• Frandley Friends Burial Ground, Whitley
  • Whitley History website - Quaker Burial Ground, accessed 14 December 2019
• Liscard Friends Burial Ground, Wallasey
• Macclesfield Friends Burial Ground
  • FindAGrave cemetery page
• Mobberley Friends Burial Ground
  • Mobberley One Place Study - Quaker Graveyard, accessed 14 December 2019
• Sale Friends Burial Ground
• Stockport Friends Burial Ground
• Warrington Friends Burial Ground
• Wilmslow Friends Burial Ground

Meeting Houses

• Cheadle Hulme Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Chester, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Disley, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Frandlely, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Heswall (now in Merseyside), Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Sale, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Stockport, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Warrington, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Wilmslow, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023

Websites

• Quaker Family History Society website - Cheshire

Publications

• Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I, pp. 99-112, Chapter VII, Cheshire, Hathi Trust