Hello List, ( I am not sure that this posting arrived on the List so I post it again) My family interests are connected to the Quaker Meeting house at Pardshaw - the Fawcett Family were Yeoman farmers from at least 1600 in Mosser and when the Quaker movement came to the area like many other farming families they joined the new religion. As a close knit community many families inter-married and I have researched most of them. I detail below the major families connected to the Pardshaw meeting from 1650 to 1800. I offer a look-up service for this Quaker community that also encompasses the meetings at Broughton, Isel, Holme as well as Pardshaw. If you have hit a brick wall with your research through the normal parish records I may be able to help - it is surprising the number of Cumberland families that were involved in the Quaker movement - in a lot of cases by being members it caused distress and even death. Families: ABBATT, ALLASON, BELL, BLACK, BURNYEAT, DICKINSON, DEARMAN, DIXON, FAWCETT, FEARON, FLETCHER, GILL, GLAISTER, HALL, HARRIS, HEAD, HUDSON, JACKSON, MIREHOUSE, NICHOLSON, NIXON, NUTT, PATTINSON, PEARSON, PEILE, ROBINSON, SAUL, WALKER, WILKINSON, WILSON & WOODVILLE. Eric Fawcett ==============================