Quakers in Sussex

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Surnames/tags: Quakers Sussex

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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

• Chichester Monthly Meeting
• 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)
• Horsham Monthly Meeting (to 18123 when it united with Dorking Monthly Meeting, Surrey)
• Hurst Monthly Meeting (subsumed into Lewes and Chichester Monthly Meeting)
• Lewes and Chichester Monthly Meeting

Cemeteries

• Arundel Friends Burial Ground
• Blue Idol Friends Burial Ground, Thakeham
• Brighton Friends Burial Ground
  • The Quaker Burial Ground on the Royal Pavilion Estate
• Chichester Friends Burial Ground
• Ditchling Friends Burial Ground
• Herstmonceux Friends Burial Ground
• Horsham Friends Burial Ground
• Ifield Friends Burial Ground
• Lewes Friends Burial Ground
• Plaistow Friends Burial Ground
• Rottingdean Friends Burial Ground
  • The Story of the Hidden Quaker Burial Ground in Rottingdean, accessed 27 January 2020
• Twineham Friends Burial Ground
• Worthing Friends Burial Ground (precise location unknown)

Meeting Houses

• Bexhill-on-Sea, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Blue Idol, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Bognor Regis, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Brighton, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Chichester, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Ditchling, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Eastbourne, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Hastings, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Herstmonceux, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Horsham, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Ifield, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Lewes, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Littlehampton, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Worthing, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023

Websites

• Quaker Family History Society website - Sussex

Publications

• Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I, pp. 708-735, Chapter XXXIV, Sussex, Hathi Trust
• Audrey Elizabeth Doff. Social conditions in the Cuckmere Valley 1660-1780: the influence of church and dissent, PhD thesis, The Open University, 1987, esp. pp. 218-249, PDF
• David Hitchin. Quakers in Lewes, 2nd edition, 2010, Google Books
• Thomas W Marsh and Anne W Marsh. Some Records of the Early Friends of Surrey and Sussex, S Harris & Co, London, 1886, Internet Archive
• Michael Woolley. The Quakers in Chichester 1655-1967, 4th edition, 2006, Chichester Quakers website, accessed 27 January 2020