Quakers in Essex

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Surnames/tags: Quakers Essex

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

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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

• Barking Monthly Meeting (from 1691, became Ratcliffe and Barking Monthly Meeting)
• Coggleshall Monthly Meeting
• Colchester Monthly Meeting
  • Note that from 1667 to 1753 the borough of Colchester was not part of Colchester Monthly Meeting but had its own separate Two Weeks Meeting
• Felsted Monthly Meeting
• Ham and Waltham Monthly Meeting (to 1691 when it split into Enfield Monthly Meeting, Middlesex and Barking monthly Meeting)
• Manningtree Monthly Meeting
• Ratcliffe and Barking Monthly Meeting (formerly Barking Monthly Meeting)
• Thaxted Monthly Meeting
• Witham Monthly Meeting

Cemeteries

• Bardfield Friends Burial Ground
• Barking Friends Burial Ground
• Chelmsford Friends Burial Ground
• Coggeshall Friends Burial Ground
• Colchester Friends Burial Ground
  • List of some names at this website, accessed 22 December 2019
• Dunmow Friends Burial Ground
• Earls Cole Friends Burial Ground
• Epping Friends Burial Ground
• Maldon Friends Burial Ground
• Saffron Walden Friends Burial Ground
• Stansted Friends Burial Ground
• Wanstead Friends Burial Ground
• Witham Friends Burial Ground, Steeple
  • Essex Family History website - Quaker Burial Ground at Steeple (includes list of names)

Meeting Houses

• Bardfield, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Billericay, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Brentwood, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Chelmsford, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Clacton-on-Sea, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Coggeshall, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Colchester, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Dunmow, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Earls Cole, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Epping, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Harlow, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Leigh-on-Sea, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Maldon, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Romford, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Saffron Walden, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Stansted, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Walthamstow, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Wanstead, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023

Websites

• Essex family History website - Quaker deaths 1844-1886, accessed 22 December 2019
• Essex Family History website - Quakers in The Dengie Hundred, accessed 22 December 2019
• Quaker Family History Society website - Essex, accessed 22 December 2019

Publications

• Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I, pp. 190-208, Chapter XIV, Essex, Hathi Trust
• Joyce Whittington. Early History of Thaxted Monthly Meeting, William Sessions, 1995