Quakers in Leicestershire

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Surnames/tags: Quakers Leicestershire

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

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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

• Braunston Monthly Meeting (subsequently named Oakham)
• Dalby Monthly Meeting (split from Leicester Monthly Meeting in about 1690; merged with Swannington Monthly meeting in 1762 to form Dalby and Donnington Monthly Meeting)
• Dalby and Donnington Monthly Meeting (formed in 1762 from the merger of Dalby and Swannington Monthly Meetings; dissolved in 1790 when the preparatory meetings joined Nottingham Monthly Meeting)
• Hinckley Monthly Meeting (split from Leicester Monthly Meeting in about 1690; merged with Leicester Monthly Meeting in 1761 to form Leicester and Hinkley Monthly Meeting)
• Hinckley, Leicester and Oakham Monthly Meeting (formed in 1790 from merger of Leicester and Hinkley Monthly Meeting and Oakham Monthly Meeting)
• Leicester Monthly Meeting (to 1761)
• Leicester and Hinckley Monthly Meeting (formed in 1761 from the merging of Leicester and Hinkley Monthly Meetings; merged with Oakham Monthly Meeting in 1790 to form Hinkley, Leicester and Oakham Monthly Meeting)
• Oakham Monthly Meeting (formerly named Braunston; merged with Leicester Monthly Meeting in 1790 to form Hinkley, Leicester and Oakham Monthly Meeting)
• Swannington Monthly Meeting (merged with Dalby Monthly Meeting in 1762 to form Dalby and Donnington Monthly Meeting)

Cemeteries

• Leicester Friends Burial Ground

Meeting Houses

• Leicester, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023

Websites

• Quaker Family History Society website - Leicestershire and Rutland

Publications

• Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I, pp. 330-346, Chapter XXIII, Leicestershire and Rutland, Hathi Trust
• R H Evans. The Quakers of Leicestershire 1660-1714, Transactions of the Leicester Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 28, 1952, Leicester Archaeological and Historical Society website, accessed 5 January 2020