Quakers in Surrey

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Surnames/tags: Quakers Surrey

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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

• Capel Monthly Meeting
• Dorking Monthly Meeting (to 1813 when it united with Horsham Monthly Meeting, Sussex)
• Dorking and Horsham Monthly Meeting (1814- 1840)
• Dorking, Horsham and Guildford Monthly Meeting (from 1841, when Guildford Monthly Meeting joined Dorking and Horsham Monthly Meeting)
• Guildford Monthly Meeting (to 1840: it joined Dorking and Horsham Monthly Meeting in 1841)
• Guildford and Godalming Monthly Meeting
• Kingston Monthly Meeting
• Reigate Monthly Meeting (this had a brief existence from 1715-1725; at other times up to 1813 it was covered by Dorking Monthly Meeting, and then, successively, by Dorking and Horsham Monthly Meeting and by Dorking, Horsham and Guildford Monthly Meeting)
• Southwark Monthly Meeting
• Wandsworth and Croydon Monthly Meeting (amalgamated into Kingston Monthly Meeting in 1815)

Cemeteries

• Binscombe Friends Burial Ground, Godalming
  • Free space page for Binscombe Old Quaker Burial Ground
• Capel Friends Burial Ground
• Croydon Friends Burial Ground
• Dorking Friends Burial Ground
• Eden St Friends Burial Ground, Kingston
• Esher Friends Burial Ground
• Godalming Friends Burial Ground
• Guildford Friends Burial Ground
• Kingston upon Thames Friends Burial Ground
• Long Lane Friends Burial Ground, Southwark/Bermondsey, Surrey (also known as Long Street in some Quaker records)
  • FindAGrave: Long Lane Friends Burial Ground
• Reigate Friends Burial Ground
• Staines Friends Burial Ground
• Wandsworth Friends Burial Ground

Meeting Houses

• Capel, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Croydon, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Dorking, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Egham (Staines and Egham), Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Esher, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Farnham, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Godalming, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Guildford, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Kingston upon Thames, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Oxted, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Purley, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Reigate, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Richmond, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Staines (now replaced by Staines and Egham), Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Streatham and Brixton, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Sutton, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Wandsworth, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Wimbledon, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Woking, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023

Websites

• Quaker Family History Society website - Surrey
• Dorking Quakers website - A Brief History of Dorking Quakers, accessed 27 January 2020

Publications

• Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I, pp. 688-708, Chapter XXXIII, Surry, Hathi Trust
• Thomas W Marsh and Anne W Marsh. Some Records of the Early Friends of Surrey and Sussex, S Harris & Co, London, 1886, Internet Archive