Quakers in Lincolnshire

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Surnames/tags: Quakers Lincolnshire

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Contents 1 Monthly Meetings 2 Cemeteries 3 Meeting Houses 4 Websites 5 WikiTree Pages 6 Publications

Monthly Meetings

Please note that the Quakers Project uses Monthly Meetings for categorisation purposes, not Quarterly Meetings or local Preparative Meetings

• Bourne Monthly Meeting
• Broughton Monthly Meeting (1768-1834, when it became part of Broughton and Gainsborough Monthly Meeting; and again from 1872, when Broughton and Gainsborough Monthly Meeting split back into two separate meetings, to 1920, when Lincolnshire Monthly Meeting was formed)
• Broughton and Gainsborough Monthly Meeting (1835-1872 when it was renamed Broughton Monthly Meeting)
• Gainsborough Monthly Meeting (1667-1834, when it became part of Broughton and Gainsborough Monthly Meeting; and again from 1872, when Broughton and Gainsborough Monthly Meeting split back into two separate meetings, to 1920, when Lincolnshire Monthly Meeting was formed)
• Lincoln Monthly Meeting (1667-1768 when it became Broughton Monthly Meeting)
• Lincolnshire Monthly Meeting (from 1920)
• Mumby Monthly Meeting (1667-1768 when it became part of Wainfleet Monthly Meeting)
• Spalding Monthly Meeting (1667-1796 when it became part of Spalding and Wainfleet Monthly Meeting; and 1872, when Spalding and Wainfleet Monthly Meeting was renamed just Spalding, to 1920, when Lincolnshire Monthly Meeting was formed)
• Spalding and Wainfleet Monthly Meeting (1796 to 1872 when it was renamed just Spalding Monthly Meeting)
• Stamford Monthly Meeting (dissolved in 1713; no surviving records; responsibility for Preparatory Meetings in Stamford Monthly Meetings was split between Spalding Monthly meeting in Lincolnshire and Oakham Monthly Meeting (Leicestershire and Rutland)
• Wainfleet Monthly Meeting (1768 to 1796, when it became part of Spalding and Wainfleet Monthly Meeting)

Cemeteries

• Brant Broughton Friends Burial Ground
• Crowle Friends Burial Ground
• Gainsborough Friends Burial Ground
• Lincoln Friends Burial Ground
• Spalding Quaker Burial Ground

Meeting Houses

• Brant Broughton, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Gainsborough, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Grimsby, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Lincoln, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023
• Spalding, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023

Websites

• Quaker Family History Society website - Lincolnshire
• Mark Smith's Smudgy Guide website - History of Lincolnshire Quakers

WikiTree Pages

• Beckingham Quakers

Publications

• Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I, pp. 346-361, Chapter XXIV, Lincolnshire, Hathi Trust
• Susan E A Davies. Quakerism in Lincolnshire: an Informal History, Yard Publication Services, 1989