Quakers in Devon

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Surnames/tags: Quakers Devon

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

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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

• East Devon Monthly Meeting (from 1785)
• Exeter Monthly Meeting (1688-1785)
• Thorncombe and Membury Monthly Meeting (1678-1727)
• West Devon Monthly Meeting

Cemeteries

• Exeter Friends Burial Ground
• Kingsbridge Friends Burial Ground
• Membury Friends Burial Ground
• Plymouth Friends Burial Ground
• Spiceland Friends Burial Ground, Uffculmbe
  • FindAGrave - Spiceland Quaker Burial Ground
• Sticklepath Friends Burial Ground
  • Sticklepath Village website - Quaker burying ground
• Tavistock Friends Burial Ground
• Thorncombe Friends Burial Ground (in Dorset since 1844)
• Totnes Friends Burial Ground

Meeting Houses

• Ashburton, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 29 July 2023
• Bideford, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Exeter, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Kingsbridge, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Plymouth, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Spiceland, Uffculme, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Tavistock, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Torquay (Tor Bay), Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Totnes, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023

Websites

• Devon and Cornwall Quakers website, accessed 15 December 2019
  • The beginnings of Quakerism in Devon and Cornwall
  • The History of Devon and Cornwall General Meeting - in Devon]
• Quaker Family History Society website - Devon
• Thorncombe Village Trust website - Thorncombe's Quakers, accessed 18 December 2019

Publications

• Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I, pp. 146-165, Chapter XI, Devonshire, Hathi Trust