Quakers in Lancashire

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Surnames/tags: Quakers Lancashire

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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

• Cartmel Monthly Meeting
• Fylde Monthly Meeting (from 1698 to late 19th century)
• Hardshaw Monthly Meeting (to 1816; split into Hardshaw East and Hardshaw West Monthly Meetings from 1817)
• Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting (from 1817: records dated earlier are those of Hardshaw Monthly Meeting)
• Hardshaw West Monthly Meeting (from 1817: records dated earlier are those of Hardshaw Monthly Meeting)
• Lancaster Monthly Meeting
• Marsden Monthly Meeting
• Preston Monthly Meeting
• Swarthmore Monthly Meeting

Cemeteries

• Bickerstaffe Friends Burial Ground
• Blackburn Friends Burial Ground
• Cartmel Friends Burial Ground
• Colthouse Friends Buria Ground
• Crawshawbooth Friends Burial Ground
• Garstang Friends Burial Ground
• Hardshaw Friends Burial Ground, St Helens
• Height Friends Burial Ground, Cartmel Fell, Lancashire
• Heyside Friends Burial Ground
• Hunter Street Friends Burial Ground, Liverpool
• Lancaster Friends Burial Ground
• Langtree Friends Burial Ground, Standish
• Liverpool Friends Burial Ground
• Mount Street Friends Burial Ground, Manchester
• Osmotherley Friends Burial Ground
• Penketh Friends Burial Ground
• Rochdale Friends Burial Ground
• Rossendale Friends Burial Ground
• Smithdown Road Friends Burial Ground, Toxteth Park
• St Helens Friends Burial Ground
• Sunbrick Friends Burial Ground (Birkrigg Common, near Swarthmoor)
  • List of Quaker Burials 1654-1767 - Harper Gaythorpe. Swarthmoor Meeting House, Ulverston: A Quaker Stronghold in 'Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society', Vol. 6, 1906, pp. 275-278, PDF, accessed 31 March 2020
• Warrington Friends Burial Ground
• Wyresdale Friends Burial Ground, Abbeystead
• Yealand Conyers Friends Burial Ground

Meeting Houses

• Birkenhead, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Blackburn, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Bolton, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Cartmel, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Colthouse, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Crawshawbooth, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Eccles, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Garstang, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Lancaster, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Liverpool, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Manchester (central), Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Manchester: South Manchester, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Osmotherley, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Preston, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Rookhow (Rusland), Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Southport, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• St Helens, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Swarthmoor
  • Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website: Swarthmoor, accessed 2 August 2023
  • Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website: Swarthmoor Hall, accessed 2 August 2023
  • Wikipedia: Swarthmoor Hall
• Wigan, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website: Swarthmoor, accessed 2 August 2023
• Yealand (Yealand Conyers), Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website: Swarthmoor, accessed 2 August 2023

Websites

• Lancashire Central and North Area Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
• Quaker Family History Society website - Lancashire

Publications

• Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I, pp.300-330, Chapter XXII, Lancashire, Hathi Trust
• Mary Bonsall. The Bickerstaffe Quakers & The Friends Graveyard at Bickerstaffe - a Monograph (undated), Holy Trinity, Bickerstaffe website, accessed 4 January 2020
• Harper Gaythorpe. Swarthmoor Meeting House, Ulverston: A Quaker Stronghold in 'Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society', Vol. 6, 1906, pp. 275-278, PDF, accessed 31 March 2020
• Nicholas J Morgan. Lancashire Quakers and the Tithe, 1660-1730, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 1988, available on University of Manchester Library website, Manchester eScholar, accessed 4 January 2020
• Benjamin Nightingale. Early Stages of the Quaker movement in Lancashire. London Congregational Union of England and Wales, 1921, Internet Archives
• Isabel Ross. Margaret Fell, Mother of Quakerism, 3rd edition, William Sessions, 1996 (has quite a bit of information on early Lancashire Quakers)