Quakers in Suffolk

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Surnames/tags: Quakers Suffolk

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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

• Beccles Monthly Meeting (merged with Woodbridge Monthly Meeting in 1798; in 1801 most of the preparative meetings were transferred to Yarmouth Monthly Meeting, Norfolk)
• Bury (St Edmunds) Monthly Meeting (from 1741) - commonly called Bury Monthly Meeting in Quaker records
  • No surviving marriage registers until 1762 but notices of marriage intention will be in Monthly Meeting minutes
• Ipswich Monthly Meeting (later renamed Woodbridge)
• Mendlesham Monthly Meeting (renamed Bury Monthly Meeting in 1741)
  • No surviving registers from before 1700; no surviving marriage registers but notices of marriage intention will be in Monthly Meeting minutes
• Sudbury Monthly Meeting
• Woodbridge Monthly Meeting (formerly named Ipswich)

Cemeteries

• Beccles Friends Burial Ground
• Bredfield Friends Burial Ground
• Bury St Edmunds Friends Burial Ground
• Ipswich Friends Burial Ground
• Leiston Friends Burial Ground
• Needham Market Friends Burial Ground
• Pakefield Friends Burial Ground
• Sudbury Friends Burial Ground
• Woodbridge Friends Burial Ground

Meeting Houses

• Beccles, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Bury St Edmunds, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 31 July 2023
• Ipswich, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Leiston, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Pakefield, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 1 August 2023
• Sudbury, Quaker Meeting Houses Heritage Project website, accessed 2 August 2023

Websites

• Quaker Family History Society website - Suffolk

Publications

• Joseph Besse. Sufferings of Early Quakers, 1753, Vol. I, pp. 657-687, Chapter XXXII, Suffolk, Hathi Trust
• Colin Dykes. The Dikes of Bury St Edmunds and their Relatives, 'Quaker Connections' (magazine of the Quaker Family History Society), No. 82, March 2021, pp. 22-30