Would you like to join the Quakers Project? [closed]

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If you have Quaker ancestors - or just a general interest in Quaker history - why not join the Quakers Project?

We work together to increase WikiTree's coverage of Quakers, to improve existing Quaker profiles, to link Quakers to Monthly Quaker meetings, to identify sources and repositories, to manage profiles of historically significant Quakers, and so on. You can find out more on the Project home page.

If this appeals to you, please use the answer box to let us know your interests: for instance Quakers from particular families, or Quakers in a particular geographical area. We will then be able to award you the Project badge and give you a warm welcome.

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I would like to join the Quaker group to learn additional information about my ancestors.

Linda Starner

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Thank you, Linda. I have given you the Project badge and will  send you a private message.

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I would like to learn more about the Andrews Pitts (Pitts-955) paternal line (he married Martha Stroud in Guilford, NC).  I must admit I am very new to Wikitree itself and the source citation thing.  On Ancestry, I followed each father, starting with my grandfather on my mom's side and when I did...it led me to "Andrew Pitts-DNA Link" and the end of the line.  I know there were Quakers 2 generations after my grandfather.  I have decided to do a AncestryDNA test soon to help me with that.

-Laura

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Hi Laura. Thank you. I will send you a private message.

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I would like to join the Quaker Project. My ancestry runs through Thomas Farnsworth who arrived in West Jersey in 1677. I believe I also have roots attached to the Quaker migration to the Northern Neck of Virginia in the 18th Century.

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Thank you. I am giving you the Project badge and will send you a private message. Welcome to the Project!

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I would like to join the Quaker group. I am connected to several from colonial Pennsylvania.

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Thank you, Veronica, for your interest. I have made you a Project member and will send you a private message. A warm welcome!

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I would like to join the Quaker group. I have very early Quaker ancestors : in 1665 Joseph Nun and his wife Elizabeth and four others had goods and cattle to the value of £18 confiscated from them for non-payment of tithes, and seven others also had goods and livestock distrained. They became Quakers in late 1650s, in Littleport, Ely, Cambridgeshire. They are ancestors of the Quaker Palmer families from Norwich. There are then several generations without Quaker connection, until my mother joined and I too in Cambridgeshire

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Hello Dorothy,

You have quite the Quaker histiry ! 1650 is indeed an early period. We are very glad that you have an interest in joining us and sharing your family history.  Let me get you badged so your membership in the project will be official.  And please join the Quaker Project google group.  It's a members only discussion group where we talk about issues of interest to the project, ask questions and stay in touch.

Just click on the link and join. It's quick and easy.

https://groups.google.com/g/wikitreequakers

Welcome to the Quaker's Project,, David Douglass

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I would like to join the Quakers Project. My family was from Vermont, New Hampshire, Dutchess County and Cayuga County Friends communities. Hoags and Meaders were common family names.

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Hello Becky Wade

Thank you for your interest in joining the Quaker's Project.  We will award your project badge in a short while.  I will be sending you an email message through your WiliTree profile with addtional information about joining the Quaker's Project Google discussion group.  In the meanwhile have a look at the Quaker's Project Membership portal and familiarize yourself with the ways in which you can be involved with the project.

[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Religious_Society_of_Friends Quaker's Project Membership Portal]

I would also reccomend becoming Pre-1700 self certified if you are not already certified.  It's not difficult and a must if you wish to work on the older 18th century profiles.

[https://www.wikitree.com/quiz/pre_1700 Pre-1700 Self certification Quiz]

Best regards and welcome to the project.

David Douglass, for Michael Cayley, Project Leader

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I am finding numerous Quakers amongst my ancestors and would like to work with others who share this background.

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Hi Scott, thank you for your interest. I am making you a member of the Project and will send you a private message.

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I have a number of Quaker ancestors (Nordyke families and Moon family and others) I would love to be involved with the Quaker Project!

Dennis Slothower

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Hi Dennis, thank you for your interest. I am making you a member of the Project and will send you a private message.

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I would like to join this project. My Quakers were in New York - the Amawalk, Chappaqua, and Oblong meeting records all hold information on my ancestors. A few are in the Nine Partners meeting as well. Basically Dutchess and Westchester counties, NY.

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Hi Rebecca, thank you for your interest. I am making you a member of the Project and will send you a private message.

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when i leave tyhis page to sign in i cannot get back to it!  Help!

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Please add me.  I descend from Thomas Janney/Elizabeth Worthington of styall, Pownall Fee, Cheshire England> their son Thomas b 1633/Margaret Heath; they immigrated to Bucks County Pa in The Endeavor with their 6 children > their son Joseph b. 1675 Pownall Fee Cheshire England died 1729 Bucks Pennsylvania/ Mary Jane Mercy> Mary Janney b 1687 County Mayo Ireland died 1722 Pennsylvania.

Also, John NIXON b. 1572 Cheshire/Anne Pownall>their son James b 1605 england/Sarah Edwards>their son George Nixon b 1687 Ireland died Pennsylvania/Mary Janney>their son George b 1730 Ireland died Loudon county Virginia 1800/Mary Combs

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Hi Nancy. Thanks for your interest. I am sending you a private message.

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Hello, I am interested in joining this project. I have very little genealogical experience, but I have filled out much out my personal tree now. I am a Quaker from a long line of Quakers on my mothers side (and with some Quakers farther back on my father's side). I am particularly interested in the Tabers, Smiths, Rockwells, Guindons, Giffens, and other Quaker families with connections to Belmont County (Ohio), Olney Friends School, the North Carolina Piedmont, and with prominent American Quaker families in general.

Answer 1

For the last couple of months, I've been going through the Dartmouth monthly meeting register of births, marriages and deaths (1699-1880) and entering it's data into WikiTree profiles with citations. I've completed around 600 of it's 867 pages.  As a result, the Dartmouth monthly meeting category has gone from around 10 profiles to 840.

Most of the profiles are pretty simple and look like this one for Benjamin Howland.  If anyone would like to lend a hand, I've flagged about 200 profiles in the Quaker maintenance category Needs Profiles Created.  Most of them are family register entries with the names of children and birth dates. Not all of the children have had their profiles created.  All that needs to be done with them is to create the child profiles, carry over the relevant citation, and then throw in the Quaker sticker and Dartmouth monthly meeting category.

- Tim

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Tim, that is great! Thank you so much for what you have done. And you are not even a member of the Project. Let me know if you want me to give you the Project badge.

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Sure. Go ahead and add the badge.  Most of my ancestors are Quakers, so it's most of the personal research I do.

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GREAT!

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Hi, Tim. I see your message is several months ago but if you still need some volunteer assistance, I’ll be happy to help. I am a fairly new WikiTree member and may need a little help with the “citation of sources” piece, but I’ll be happy to try!

My Quaker connection is through Edmund Cartledge and his family who emigrated from Derbyshire, England to Darby, Pennsylvania area in 1682.

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Hi Susan. Thank you. I am sure anything you can do to help will be welcomed by Tim.

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I would like to join the Quaker project.  Reuben Fisher was born in London in 1666, baptised in St Olave's, Bermondsey and moved to Youghal, Co Cork.  He married Joan How (d 1698).   Many Fishers were descended from Reuben and some moved to the USA, including Abraham Fisher (1823 - 1909) who was married to Sarah Wright (1883 - 1886).   Many of my ancestors are buried in the Frie3nds Burial ground in Belfast.

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I would like to join the Quaker project.  Reuben Fisher was born in London in 1666, baptised in St Olave's, Bermondsey and moved to Youghal, Co Cork.  He married Joan How (d 1698).   Many Fishers were descended from Reuben and some moved to the USA, including Abraham Fisher (1823 - 1909) who was married to Sarah Wright (1883 - 1886).   Many of my ancestors are buried in the Friends Burial ground in Belfast.

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Brilliant, Trevor. I have given you the badge, and will message you so I can get your email address to add you to the Project's Google Group.

Answer 4

Please include me in the project.  I am exploring my connections to the Perkins and related families that departed Hampton, Massachusetts (New Hampshire) to Nantucket and further to Brandywine Hundred in Delaware.

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Thank you, Clyde. I have awarded you the Quakers Project badge and will send you a private message. A warm welcome!

Answer 5

I am interested in Pennsylvania Quakers, Free Quakers, those in Burlington, NJ., and from Krefeld.

Thank you!

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I am assuming you want to join the Project and will give you the Project badge. Warm welcome! I will also send you a private message.

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Yes, thank you!  Looking forward to it.

Answer 6

I would also like to join the Quaker Project. My paternal grandfather was a birthright Quaker, with the Hodgin/Hodgson line and many others going back through Indiana and North Carolina to the UK and Ireland.

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Thanks, Audra, and a warm welcome to the Project. I am awarding you the Project badge and will send you a private message.

Answer 7

I am very interested in joining the Quaker project.  I've had so much fun since discovering my Quaker roots -- it was amazing to learn through meeting records that my 6th G-Grandmother was with child prior to her marriage in 1729!  

I am working on many Quaker surnames - Cook, Underwood, Hodgson, Wells, Wright and more.

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A warm welcome to the Quakers Project: I have given you the Project badge. We have a Google Group we use fo communication. If you send me a private message via WikiTree, that will give me your email address and I can add you to the Group.

Answer 8

Could I please join this project? I am related to the Patten and Griffith family of Quakers around the Pennsylvania area.

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Thanks, Dadijo. I have awarded you the Project badge :-) I will send you a private message: if you reply to that, I can add you to the Project's Google Group.

A warm welcome to the Project! Best wishes, Michael

Answer 9

I'm interested in joining the Quaker project.

I have plenty of Quaker ancestors in the Colonial era, and I've always found their stories fascinating, but my active interest right now is in the 19th century Quakers of the Driftwood and Sandcreek meetings in Jackson and Bartholomew Counties, Indiana.

A few years ago I stumbled on a record for one of my 3rd great grand uncles in Quaker records on Ancestry! I just noted it and didn't look into it until several days ago. My ancestor Anis Ebaugh and his wife Cora were members at Sandcreek. Cora was a Stanfield, a well established Quaker family. Anis must have converted to marry her.

On the same page that documents Anis and Cora separating from the church (to move, I think) is the marriage of Anna Ebaugh (Anis' niece) marrying a Quaker - she must have converted. This marriage was NOT searchable from the index of the records! Which got me thinking ... I have two missing 3rd great grandaunts - Louisa and Theresa - who disappear before 1850. They both come of marrying age just before then, what are the odds they married Quakers and those marriages aren't indexed? Plus the marriage records for Sandcreek don't go back past 1854, so I'll have to slog through the meeting minutes manually ...

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Thanks Dave. I have made you a Quakers Project member. A warm welcome! I will send you a private message as a follow-up.

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Yes, I would like to join the Quakers Project.

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Hi Pwt. Thank you for your interest in the Quakers Project. I will give you the member badge and send you a private message.

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Thanks for your kind reply, and also for your interesting Quaker family information. My Quaker ancestry was from the RICHARD HAINES FAMILY of NJ. They were from Aynhoe, England. RICHARD Jr.'s son Bethany/Bethanah Haines married Mary LNU. Their daughter Zilphia (other spellings known) Haines married Anthony Moore in Frederick, Virginia. Some of their children remained Friends, but their son David Moore "married out" to a non-Quaker. He is my ancestor.

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Many thanks!

Answer 10

I am very much interested in the project because my 8th great-grandparents were Richard Ratcliff and his wife, born Alice Rawsthorne,"of Chapel Hill" Whalley Parish, Lancashire, England.   Chapel Hill was a free-hold tract of land on which their house was built. Richard Ratcliff held Quaker Meetings, illegal then, in his home until the Crawshawbooth Meeting House was built. Sometime after 1660 he donated land for a 12 X 15-yard burial ground adjacent to his house as a Friends burial ground. Quakers could not then be buried in the Church of England burial grounds and their corpses had to be buried on roadsides or in fields. Richard and his wife Alice were fined and imprisoned on February 15, 1660/1 for attending Quaker meetings, refusing to swear an oath to the king, and for refusing to pay tithes to the Church of England. Their son, Richard, and wife Mary (my 7th great-grandparents) boarded the ship SUBMISSION on September 16, 1682 to leave behind religious persecution. On November 10, 1682, they arrived on the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay.  They made their home near Easton in what is now known as Talbot County, Maryland and  became active in organizing a Quaker congregation there. Their original building is still standing today and is being preserved as a historic landmark. The family is prominent in the Quaker records in that area. Other lines in my family were also Quakers and I would really like to learn more about their ideology

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Hi Phyllis. I have awarded you the Quakers Project badge. Welcome to the Project! I will send you a private message.

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Thank you very much.

Phyllis

Answer 11

I would like to join the Quaker project to learn more information about my Quaker ancestors and would be happy to contribute any information that I find as part of my research.  I am descended from the George family of Llangurig, Montgomeryshire, Wales, most probably through Edward George, born say 1760.  Less probably through his brother/cousin Richard.  Richard and his family arrived at Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1708 and died on board ship two days after his arrival.  I have not seen any records showing when Edward arrived.  Today I saw the results of a cousin's Y-DNA test that confirmed my descent through the male George line.

Monte George

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Thank you, John. I have given you the Quakers Project badge and will send you a private message via the WikiTree system

Answer 12

I would like to join the Quakers project. I am also interest in the underground railroad.  My husband's family is related to Laura Smith Haviland who was a conductor for the Underground Railroad during the Civil War.

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Thank you, Julie. A warm welcome to the Quakers Project!

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Welcome, Julie. A good place to start with learning more about the underground railroad and the part Quakers played in operating it is with Levi Coffin, "president of the underground railroad." His fascinating autobiography, largely devoted to the railroad, is available online and linked from his profile or there are many print editions available.

Answer 13

I would like to join the Quaker project. I have many Quaker ancestors, but I am most familiar with the Buffums. My grandmother had a book entitled Two Quaker Sisters the diaries of Elizabeth Buffum Chace and Lucy Buffum Lovell, my second cousins 5X removed. But, I admire the way they lived their beliefs.

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Hi Cecily, thank you. I have made you a member of the Quakers Project and look forward to your contributions on Buffums and Quakers connected with them, I will send you a private message. A warm welcome to the Project!

Answer 14

I've been tracing my direct maternal line and have found they were predominantly Quaker. Have the line traced back to late 17th century New Jersey to 20th century Michigan. Would like to join the Quaker project.

Jan House

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Thanks, Jan. I have made you a Project member - a warm welcome. I will send you a private message.

Answer 15

I am a descendant of Irish and English Quakers.  I am interested in helping as much as I can.  Some of the families on the English side are Mendenhall, Strode, Jefferis; on the Irish side is Robert Johnson, Sr and his descendants of which I am one.

Ray M Johnson

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Hi Ray. You are already a Project member. Would you like to join the English Quakers team?

Answer 16

I would like to join the Quaker project. Many of my ancestors were Quaker.

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Hi Lisa. Thank you for wanting to join. I am making you a Project member and will send you a private message.

Answer 17

I would like to join the Quaker group as well.

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Thanks Paul, and warm welcome. I will give you the Project badge and send you a private message.

Answer 18

I have seen what I believe is my 8th great grandfather John Streypers in minutes from the Montgomery, PA Quaker Monthly or Yearly Minutes. I have also seen Thomas Elmore Jr who can be found in Charles City Henrico County VA minutes and his son Thomas Elmore III was found with listing of his children in Deep River Monthly meetings in Guilford NC. I am trying to verify the wife of Thomas II . If correct, the Streypers are my ancestors on my paternal side and the Elmores on my maternal side. Some of the minutes are hard to read, bless you that are able to do it. I would like to join and add what records I have found.

Answer 19

Hello, I'd like to help out with the Quaker project (probably more when I'm able to travel again).  I've been working on getting everyone who lived in my house onto Wikitree (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Westwood_Scarborough is the space I've created for the street), starting with the builders [[Rowntree-245|William Rowntree]] and his wife [[Stickney-877|Mary (Stickney) Rowntree]]. Yes, they are related to the sweet-making Rowntrees.

One of the women who married into the family from overseas found that when she first attended meeting that a large proportion of the women she met were also Mrs Rowntree.  So when archives open again, I'd like to document the other Mrs Rowntrees (if nothing else) - tying them into the tree, one way or another.  

In the meantime, I'm happy to help out with anything that can be done from home.

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Thank you, Pat. I will add you as a member of the Project and send you a private message.

Answer 20

I would like to join the Quakers Project. I have found some Quaker meeting records that are connected to my ancestor Gideon Hughes Hughes-21663.

I love these records, especially the family genealogy lists that provide so much accurate information.

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Thank you, Teri, for your interest in the Quakers Project. I will make you a member, and send you a private message