Quakers in Shropshire

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Surnames/tags: Quakers Shropshire

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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

• Dolobran Monthly Meeting, also called Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Monthly Meeting (1668-mid 1700s when Montgomeryshire was detached)
• Shropshire Monthly Meeting (to 1859)
• Worcestershire and Shropshire Monthly Meeting (from 1859)

Cemeteries

• Broseley Friends Burial Ground
• Coalbrookdale Friends Burial Ground
• Ironbridge Friends Burial Ground
• Shrewsbury Friends Burial Ground
• Telford Friends Burial Ground

Meeting Houses

• Ludlow, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Oswestry, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Shrewsbury, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023

Websites

• Quaker Family History Society website - Shropshire

Publications

• Grace M Jantzen. Quakers in Coalbrookdale: Women, War and Money, in 'Quaker Studies', Vol. 99, issue 1, 2003, pp. 83-108, PDF, George Fox University website, accessed 4 April 2020
• Arthur Raistrick. Dynasty of Iron Founders, 2nd edition, William Sessions, 1989 (on the Darbys of Coalbrookdale)