Catalogue description RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS)

This record is held by East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)

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Reference: SOF
Title: RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS)
Description:

The records of the general Quarterly Meetings, usually on a county basis, and of the Monthly Meetings which were held in each District, fall regularly into various classes, the main headings of which are

 

Minute Books and Proceedings

 

Minutes of Ministers and Elders

 

Women's Minute Books

 

Resolutions and Recommendations

 

Queries Answered

 

Minutes of Committee of Accounts

 

Registers of Testimonies of Disownment and Denial

 

Sufferings Registers and Accounts

 

Account Books

 

Women's Account Books

 

Public Stock Accounts

 

Deeds and Papers re Property

 

Registers of Deeds, Trust Books, etc

 

Registers of Wills

 

Conveyancing Precedent Books

 

Epistles and Advice from Yearly Meetings

 

Various Papers

 

This should assist users of the list in locating the required records under the geographical heading of each meeting. A description of the area covered and the amalgamations which have taken place within the area is given following each heading. A record commenced by one meeting and used subsequently by another with which it has been amalgamated is given under the meeting first originating the document. Where loose papers, especially copies of minutes and marriage and burial entries or settlements, have been transmitted from one meeting to another for information and their 'covers' are now missing, some doubt exists as to their recipient and hence their proper classification

 

Sussex Quarterly Meeting

 

SOF/1 Minutes and proceedings (includes accounts); 1668-1806

 

SOF/2 Minutes of Ministers' and Elders' meetings; 1728-1819

 

SOF/3 Minutes of Womens' meetings; 1753-1794

 

SOF/4 Testimonies of disownment; 1672-1767

 

SOF/5 Registers of sufferings, register of Horsham gaol, photocopy extracts of the Sussex section from J Besse's A Collection of the Sufferings of the People called Quakers; 1655-1827

 

SOF/6 Womens' meeting accounts (includes minutes); 1677-1751

 

SOF/7 Womens' meetings rough accounts; 1714-1751

 

SOF/8 Public stock accounts; 1682-1706

 

SOF/9 Register of deeds and trust books; 1667-1846

 

SOF/10 Register of wills; 1663-1685

 

SOF/11 Conveyancing precedent book; 17th - 18th centuries

 

SOF/12 Epistles and advice from yearly meetings; 1670-1850

 

Surrey Quarterly Meeting

 

SOF/13 Minutes and proceedings; 1668-1802

 

SOF/14 Minutes of Ministers' and Elders' meetings (includes epistles from yearly meetings); 1751-1802

 

SOF/15 Minutes of Womens' meetings (includes registers of attendance); 1736-1802

 

SOF/16 Queries answered; 1730-1801

 

SOF/17 Registers of sufferings; 1656-1801

 

SOF/18 Epistles and advice from yearly meetings; 1728-1838

 

SOF/19 Other papers consisting of letters, advice, amalgamation of the Kingston, Wandsworth and Croydon Monthly Meetings, abhorrence of privateering, returns of members, objection to inclosures, accounts, Ackworth School, Quakers in America, arithmetic exempla book and tables; 1730-1801

 

Sussex and Surrey Quarterly Meeting

 

SOF/20 Minutes and proceedings; 1803-1860

 

SOF/21 Minutes of Ministers' and Elders' meetings; 1805-1859

 

SOF/22 Minutes of Womens' meetings; 1801-1849

 

SOF/23 Minutes of the Committee on Accounts; 1836-1855

 

SOF/24 Returns of sufferings from monthly meetings and various papers concerning schools, Catalogue of books sold by William Phillips, proposal to instruct some African Negroes; 1813-1835

 

Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and part of Dorset Quarterly Meeting

 

SOF/25 Minutes and proceedings; 1860-1929

 

SOF/26 Minutes of Ministers' and Elders' meetings; 1860-1905

 

SOF/27 Minutes of Womens' meetings; 1867-1911

 

SOF/28 Accounts; 1855-1884

 

SOF/29 Various papers consisting of epistles and advice from yearly meetings, returns to the Charity Commissioners, printed protest against compulsory military service in the Boer War, Stewart's 'The Early History of the Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire Quarterly Meeting', notes on the history of the meeting; 1864-1958

 

Lewes Monthly Meeting

 

SOF/30 Proceedings; 1669-1810

 

SOF/31 Rough minutes; 1714-1725

 

SOF/32 Minutes of Womens' meetings; 1677-1812

 

SOF/33 Ministers' and Elders' minutes; 1772-1805

 

SOF/34 Membership papers consisting of lists of births, marriages and deaths, marriage certificates; 1776-1799

 

SOF/35 Certificates of clearness; 1720-1722

 

SOF/36 Papers relating to sufferings; 1657-1857

 

SOF/37 Property records consisting of deeds and papers; 1665-1819

 

SOF/38 Correspondence; 1801-1828

 

Arundel Monthly Meeting

 

SOF/39 Minutes; 1668-1803

 

SOF/40 Rough minutes (includes pamphlet of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade); 1771-1804

 

SOF/41 Minutes of Womens' meetings; 1698-1802

 

SOF/42 Membership papers; 1772-1805

 

SOF/43 Registers of sufferings; 1665-1811

 

Lewes and Brighton Monthly Meeting

 

SOF/44 Minutes; 1802-1817

 

SOF/45 Ministers' and Elders' minutes; 1805-1828

 

SOF/46 Accounts; 1804-1826

 

SOF/47 Property records; 1804-1831

 

SOF/48 Correspondence; 1806-1827

 

Arundel and Chichester Monthly Meeting

 

SOF/49 Minutes; 1804-1812

 

SOF/50 Ministers' and Elders' minutes; 1803-1807

 

SOF/51 Register of sufferings; 1804-1811

 

Lewes and 'Chichester Monthly Meeting

 

SOF/52 Minutes; 1817-1932

 

SOF/53 Minutes of Womens' meetings, minutes of yearly meetings, Small Meetings Committee (Thakeham and Gardner Street Committee) monthly meeting minutes, accounts; 1812-1929

 

SOF/54 Ministry and Oversight minutes and papers; 1829-1906

 

SOF/55 Membership records consisting of lists of births, marriages and deaths; 1828-1906

 

SOF/56 Papers relating to sufferings; 1858-1868

 

SOF/57 Various papers consisting of letters, certificates; 1814-1857

 

East Sussex Monthly Meeting

 

SOF/58 Minutes; 1669-1707

 

Horsham Monthly Meeting

 

SOF/59 Membership records and registers of sufferings consisting of abstracts and lists of births, marriages, deaths and burials, registers of sufferings; 1655-1837

 

SOF/60 Property records; 1753-1826

 

Arundel and Chichester Preparative Meeting

 

SOF/61 Minutes; 1803-1814

 

Brighton Preparative Meeting

 

SOF/62/1 Minutes; 1769-1935

 

SOF/62/2 Womens' Preparative Meeting minutes; 1823-1900

 

SOF/62/3 Adult School (Trafalgar Street) minutes; 1899-1919

 

SOF/62/4 Young People's Christian Endeavour Society minutes; 1904-1917

 

SOF/62/5 Accounts; 1867-1934

 

SOF/62/6 Tract Association register; 1850-1910

 

Lewes Preparative Meeting

 

SOF/63/1 Minutes; 1818-1936

 

Tunbridge Wells Preparative Meeting

 

SOF/64/1 Minutes; 1886-1933

 

SOF/64/2 Various papers consisting of letter concerning the constitution of the meeting, agreement to hire the Mechanics' Institute, Meeting House fund account book; 1886-1896

Date: 1655-1958
Held by: East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 15 Subfonds
Access conditions:

Records are open for consultation unless otherwise indicated

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by the Quarterly Meeting of Sussex, Surrey and Hants, by A.E. Bissell, Esq., Custodian of Records, in 1959 as authorised at the Quarterly Meeting held at Bournemouth on 18 Oct. 1958. Additional deposits 18 Dec 1974 (A1840) and 22 May 1985 (A4456)

Subjects:
  • East Sussex
  • West Sussex
  • Tunbridge Wells, Kent
  • Religious movement
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