Catalogue description RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS)
This record is held by East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)
Reference: | SOF |
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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) |
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