Quakers in Hertfordshire

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Contents 1 Monthly Meetings 2 Cemeteries 3 Meeting Houses 4 Websites 5 Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies 6 Publications

Monthly Meetings

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

• Baldock Monthly Meeting
• Baldock and Royston Monthly Meeting
• Baldock, Royston and Hitchin Monthly Meeting
• Cottered Monthly Meeting
• Hertford Monthly Meeting (1668-1865)
• Hertford and Hitchin Monthly Meeting (from 1866)
• Hitchin Monthly Meeting
• Luton and Leighton Monthly Meeting (included St Albans after 1865)
• Markyate Monthly Meeting (included St Albans to 1703)
• St Albans Monthly Meeting (1703-1865: subsumed into Luton and Leighton Monthly Meeting after 1865)
  • Free Space Page
• Stortford Monthly Meeting (1668-1748; no surviving records)

Cemeteries

• Berkhamsted Friends Burial Ground
• Bishops Stortford Friends Burial Ground
• Cottered Friends Burial Ground
• Hemel Hempstead Friends Burial Ground
• Hertford Friends Burial Ground
• Hitchin Friends Burial Ground
• Hoddesdon Friends Burial Ground
• Royston Friends Burial Ground
• St Albans Friends Burial Ground
• Tring Friends Burial Ground
• Ware Friends Burial Ground

Meeting Houses

• Berkhamsted, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Harpenden, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Hemel Hempstead, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Hertford, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Hitchin, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Hoddesdon, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Letchworth, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• St Albans, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Stevenage, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Watford, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Welwyn Garden City, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023

Websites

• Hertfordshire Names Online, Hertfordshire Archives website (a large number of Quaker names)
• Jennifer Ayto. "The Friends (Quakers) in Hertford', Herts Memories website, accessed 29 December 2019
• Quaker Family History Society website - Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies

Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies

Preparative Meetings: Hitchin (NQ2A) * Baldock (NQ2B) * Hertford (NQ2C) * Hoddesodon (NQ2D) * Ware (NQ2E) * Datchworth (NQ2F) * Welwyn Garden City (NQ2G) * Hunsdon (NQ2H) * Ashwell (NQ2I) * Buntingford (NQ2J) *Royston (NQ2K) *Stotfold (NQ3A)

Monthly Meetings: Ampthill (NQ3) * Baldock *Hertford and Hitchin (NQ2) * Cottered * Hertford and Hitchin

Quarterly meetings: Bedfordshire (NQ1) * Hertfordshire * Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire

Quaker Quarterly Meeting Digests

Meeting	Baptism	Marriage	Burial
Herts & Beds	1643-1838 1656-1796	1656-1796 1658-1836	1656-1796

Quaker Monthly Meeting Registers

Meeting	Baptism	Marriage	Burial
Cottered	1656-1755	1663-1721	1659-1778
Hertford	1718-1835	1713 1760-1836	1729-1837
Hitchin	1643-1775	1658-1771	1660-1775
St Albans	1661-1837	1690-1834	1667-1837

Publications

• Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I, pp. 240-255, Chapter XVII, Hartfordshire (sic), Hathi Trust
• Joyce Godber. Friends in Bedfordshire and West Hertfordshire. Luton & Leighton Monthly Meeting (1975)
• William Urwick. Nonconformity in Herts, Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd, London, 1884, Internet Archive