Quakers in Cornwall
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Monthly Meetings
Please note that the Quakers Project uses Monthly Meetings for categorisation purposes, not Quarterly Meetings or local Preparative Meetings
See: Devon and Cornwall Quakers website - A brief chronological history of the structure of Quaker Meetings in Devon and Cornwall, accessed 15 December 2019
- Cornwall Monthly Meeting (from 1904, formed by merger of East and West Cornwall Monthly Meetings)
- East Cornwall Monthly Meeting (merged with West Cornwall Monthly Meeting from 1 January 1904 to form Cornwall Monthly Meeting)
- Falmouth Monthly Meeting, 1668-1783 (merged with Penzance Monthly meeting in 1783 to form West Cornwall Monthly Meeting)
- Penzance Monthly Meeting, 1668-1783 (merged with Falmouth Monthly meeting in 1783 to form West Cornwall Monthly Meeting)
- West Cornwall Monthly Meeting (formed in 1783 from merger of Falmouth and Penzance Monthly Meetings; merged with East Cornwall Monthly Meeting from 1 January 1904 to form Cornwall Monthly Meeting)
Cemeteries
- Brea Friends Burial Ground
- Budock Friends Burial Ground
- Come-to-Good Friends Burial Ground
- Falmouth Friends Burial Ground, Budock
- Halbathic Quaker burial ground, Liskeard, Cornwall
- Marazion Friends Burial Ground
- St Minver Friends Burial Ground
- Information on FindAGrave, accessed 15 December 2019
- St Austell Friends Burial Ground
- Truro Friends Burial Ground
Meeting Houses
- Come-to-Good, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
- Marazion, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
- St Austell, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
- Truro, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
Websites
- Devon and Cornwall Quakers website, accessed 15 December 2019 Website taken down as at 17 August 2022. The Devon Quakers website has a page earmarked for Devon quaker history which was said on the same date to be being created.
- Quaker Family History Society website - Cornwall
- Quaker Records on West Penwith Resources website, accessed 15 December 2019 - includes some names
Publications
- Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I, pp. 113-126, Chapter VIII, Cornwall, Hathi Trust
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The link to "The beginnings of Quakerism in Devon and Cornwall" (https://swquakers.org.uk/content/history-beginnings) is dead. Apparently, the domain is available for sale.