Quakers in Somerset

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Surnames/tags: Quakers Somerset

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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

• Category: Bristol Monthly Meeting, Bristol
  • From 1668 to 1784 There was a Bristol Two Weeks Meeting which came directly under London Yearly Meeting
• Bristol and Frenchay Meeting (from 1870) (Gloucestershire)
• Frenchay Monthly Meeting (1668-1869) (Gloucestershire)
• Mid Somerset Monthly Meeting
• North Somerset Monthly Meeting
• North Somerset and Wiltshire Monthly Meeting
• South Somerset Monthly Meeting (to 1783, when it was subsumed into Mid Somerset Monthly Meeting)
• West Somerset Monthly Meeting

Cemeteries

• Alcombe friends Burial Ground, Minehead
• Batheaston Friends Burial Ground
• Bridgwater Friends Burial Ground
• Quakers Friars, Bristol Friends Burial Ground
• Redcliffe Pit Quaker Burial Ground, Bristol
  • Gloucestershire Places of Worship: Quaker Burial Ground ('Redcliffe Pit'), Bristol, accessed 18 July 2023
• Claverham Friends Burial Ground
• Frome Friends Burial Ground
  • Burials at the Quaker Burial Ground in Frome, accessed 27 January 2020
• Long Sutton Friends Burial Ground
• Milverton Friends Burial Ground
• Portishead Friends Burial Ground
• Sidcot Friends Burial Ground,Winscombe
• Street Friends Burial Ground
• Wellington Friends Burial Ground
• Widcombe Friends Burial Ground, Bath
  • Susan Tomes. Letting their lives speak: Priscilla Hannah Gurney, the Cotterell family, and Thomas Matchett - The Quaker Burial Ground, Widcombe, Bath, 'Quaker Connections' (magazine of the Quaker Family History Society), No. 82, March 2021, pp. 13-21. Includes a plan of the burial ground with names of those buried.
• Wincanton Friends Burial Ground

Meeting Houses

• Bath, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Bedminster, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Claverham, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Clevedon, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Long Sutton, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Minehead, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Portishead, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Sidcot, Winscombe Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Street, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Taunton, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Wellington, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Weston-super-Mare, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Wincanotn, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023

Websites

• Quaker Family History Society website - Somerset
• http://www.quakersatstreet.org.uk/a-history-of-quakers-in-street.html 'A short history of the Quakers in Street', Street Quaker Meeting website, accessed 23 January 2020

Publications

• Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I, Vol. I, pp. 39-74, Chapter IV, Bristol, Hathi Trust and pp. 576-649, Somersetshire, Hathi Trust
  • List of persons at Bristol banished in 1663 and 1664: Vo. II, pp. 637-638, Hathi Trust
• William Reinking. A Relation of the inhumane and barbarous suffering of the people called Quakers in the city of Bristoll, 1665, Google Books