Category: Quaker Meetings, Australia

Categories: Religious Society of Friends (Quaker Meetings)

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This category is for:

• Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends in Australia,
• Australian Quakers whose individual Meeting membership is unknown,
• Free-space pages related to the Religious Society of Friends in Australia

See also: Quaker Project Resources

Australian Quaker Origins from the website of the Religious Society of Friends in Australia:

The first Quaker on Australian soil was Sydney Parkinson, an artist employed by the botanist Joseph Banks, sailing with James Cook. They landed briefly in 1770. It was not until 1832 that the Society first took root in Australia, as a result of a visit by two English Friends, James Backhouse and George Washington Walker, sent by British friends on a six-year journey around south-east Australia to enquire into the condition of the penal settlements and the welfare of the Aborigines and free settlers.

• Religious Society of Friends in Australia
• Quakers Australia: Victoria Regional Meeting Library

Thornhill Cooper 12 Dec 1840 Doncaster, Yorkshire, England - 30 Dec 1940

Francis Cotton 06 Oct 1801 Hoxton, London, England, United Kingdom - 12 Apr 1883

Mary (Harrison) Barritt abt 1816 London, England, United Kingdom - 05 Apr 1848

William Tilliduff 29 Jan 1870 Plumstead, Kent, England - 14 May 1928

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