Hello, thank you for give us the Internet site for the book "Immigration of the Irish Quakers...:). I have downloaded the complete file. I've gone onto a site which has listed currently the Quaker meetings. I seem to remember someone saying that one of the meeting places was only open certain times of the year. Does anyone know anything about that and is the New Garden Meeting House still in the same area as these lots(1708-1713) which were tittled Manor of Stenning, later New Garden Township. From where did the name Stenning come? Maybe that is in this book too. Anyone interested if I do find the answer? In the book there is a place in Ireland called Swathmore(having to do with the Quaker religion too) so now I understand from where came Swathmore, PA. Mary in Alabama always searching families: Terrell, Hall, Culleney/Cullen, Pyle, Starr, Fincher, Hurford, Fairlamb, Pringle, Russell, Buckingham of PA, DE and MD.

George Fox, the originator of the Quaker faith married, in around 1670, a woman named Margaret Fell, a convert to Quakerism, and her home was named Swarthmore Hall...this was all in Ireland, and Swarthmore Hall became an important center for the Quaker religion, and lent it's name to places in the new world...the first to come to my mind is Swarthmore College, in Pa...established as a Quaker school.....it remains a large repository of Quaker information and records.... (by the way, there is an r in the name...SwaRthmore.) Stenning, or Styning Manor was a HUGE tract of land (30,000 acres or so, if memory serves), and it was conveyed by Wm Penn to his children in around 1700. This tract includes Kennett Sq Borough, the twps of New Garden, Pennsbury, Pocopson, and a good hunk of present day New Castle, Del. I'm afraid I don't know if Stenning Hall had other origins before Penn, in Pa, ...sure could have had some sort of family tie, but I don't know it if there was....it'd be interesting to know. I'm afraid I don't understand what you're asking, about current Quaker meetings....something only open periodically, or the New Garden Meeting?....you'll have to be a bit more clear on those. Sandra " I've gone onto a site which has listed currently the Quaker meetings. I seem to remember someone saying that one of the meeting places was only open certain times of the year. Does anyone know anything about that and is the New Garden Meeting House still in the same area as these lots(1708-1713) which were tittled Manor of Stenning, later New Garden Township. From where did the name Stenning come? Maybe that is in this book too. In the book there is a place in Ireland called Swathmore(having to do with the Quaker religion too) so now I understand from where came Swathmore, PA. "