Quakers in Staffordshire

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Surnames/tags: Quakers Staffordshire

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

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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

• Leek Monthly Meeting
• Stafford Monthly Meeting
• Uttoxeter Monthly Meeting

Note: some Staffordshire preparative meetings were for periods in the Monthly Meetings of Birmingham and Baddeley/Wishaw, both in Warwickshire.

Cemeteries

• Alstonefield Friends Burial Ground
• Basford Friends Burial Ground, parish of Cheddleton
• Gentleshaw Friends Burial Ground
• Leek Friends Burial Ground
• Lower Gornall Friends Burial Ground (now in Dudley)
• Oaken Friends Burial Ground, parish of Codsall
• Shallowford Friends Burial ground, parish of Chebsey
• Stafford Friends Burial Ground
• Stoke-on-Trent Friends Burial Ground
• Stranshall Friends Burial Ground
• Tamworth Friends Burial Ground
• Uttoxeter Friends Burial Ground
• Wednesbury Friends Burial Ground
• Wolverhampton Friends Burial Ground

Meeting Houses

• Leek, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Stafford, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Stoke-on-Trent, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Uttoxeter (Uttoxeter and Burton), Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Wolverhampton, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023

Websites

• Quaker Family History Society website - Staffordshire
• Staffordshire Quakers website - Local Quaker History, accessed 27 January 2020: gives links to various articles

Publications

• Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I, pp. 650-657, Chapter XXXI, Staffordshire, Hathi Trust
• Denis G Stuart. The early Quaker movement in Staffordshire, 1651-1743; from open fellowship to closed sect, 2001 thesis, available for download on University of Leicester website, accessed 27 January 2020