Regarding the Bailys, I also receommend searching the Digital Quaker collection at http://esr.earlham.edu/dqc/ for records of early Quaker Bayleys who were imprisoned and persecuted and other connections to the PA lines. I recently found that Baylis is said to be another variation on the Baillie, Baily, Bailey, Bayley name. I believe there are also some connections to the Chester County Baily/Bayley lines from some of the early VA lines of the Jordan family in Nanosemond and Isle of Wight County, VA where there are some Baily marriages. Re: http://www.quakermeetings.com/ >QuakerMeeting.com >"Monthly Meetings in North America: A Quaker Index." >It has a""Copyright C 1992 - 2004 Thomas C. Hill. All rights reserved." The site is currently down but should be back online soon. It should be the definitive source of where to find records for various historical Quaker meetings. Tom is still active on the Quaker Roots mailing list on Rootsweb and adding revisions to the site since his last book was published, and his research is quite a valuable reference. Keep in mind he does Quaker research not people research. People sometimes overlook this and email him questions about people. A recent note from him offered an example of use on the site: "As always, I know nothing about individuals, only monthly meetings and their records. My web site is down just now, but when it returns, go to <www.QuakerMeetings.com> and click on the search tab. If you input "Loudoun" in the County box and "Virg" in the State box, the result will show you every monthly meeting of Friends whose last known meeting place was in Loudoun County, Virginia. (Of course, this is a computer, so if you input "Loudon" county, you will learn only about the Tennessee county that spells its name with a single "u".)" The last time I looked there was some info there that I found confusing regarding Radnor Meeting, which I know has connections to a lot of Welsh tract families of Chester related folk. The dates listed there for Radnor cite what I think is the historical Radnor Meeting House that dates back to at least early 1700's. But in the listings the dates reflect 1950's dates when citing this meeting. This is related to the Hicksite split and there's some confusing history with Haverford and Radnor where apparently Haverford was known as Radnor at some points in time. I wanted to mention this because of the possibility over confusion resulting from records that could be cited as Radnor but found in Haverford records, and because I found the dates on the web site for Radnor confusing when I knew the meeting house had a much older history than it appears from the database info. Also, I know that many records of North Carolina Quakers are kept at Guilford College which is about 12 miles from me. I've been meaning to get there and get familiar with their resources and to try to sort out some Jordan family questions I have. There are quite a few connections between New Garden and Kennett PA Meetings and the New Garden Meeting in North Carolina and related families such as Mendenhall. I don't want to make any promises, but if anyone has records they want to research in the NC archives I may be able to assist. Please contact me privately if you have research needs in the Guilford College holdings.

Excellent resource! Thank you, Mal! JFBailey www.baileywick.com -----Original Message----- From: pa-old-chester-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:pa-old-chester-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mal Humes Sent: 22 September, 2006 23:05 To: PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PaOldC] Where to find Quaker Monthly Meeting records? Regarding the Bailys, I also receommend searching the Digital Quaker collection at http://esr.earlham.edu/dqc/ for records of early Quaker Bayleys who were imprisoned and persecuted and other connections to the PA lines. I recently found that Baylis is said to be another variation on the Baillie, Baily, Bailey, Bayley name. I believe there are also some connections to the Chester County Baily/Bayley lines from some of the early VA lines of the Jordan family in Nanosemond and Isle of Wight County, VA where there are some Baily marriages. Re: http://www.quakermeetings.com/ >QuakerMeeting.com >"Monthly Meetings in North America: A Quaker Index." >It has a""Copyright C 1992 - 2004 Thomas C. Hill. All rights reserved." The site is currently down but should be back online soon. It should be the definitive source of where to find records for various historical Quaker meetings. Tom is still active on the Quaker Roots mailing list on Rootsweb and adding revisions to the site since his last book was published, and his research is quite a valuable reference. Keep in mind he does Quaker research not people research. People sometimes overlook this and email him questions about people. A recent note from him offered an example of use on the site: "As always, I know nothing about individuals, only monthly meetings and their records. My web site is down just now, but when it returns, go to <www.QuakerMeetings.com> and click on the search tab. If you input "Loudoun" in the County box and "Virg" in the State box, the result will show you every monthly meeting of Friends whose last known meeting place was in Loudoun County, Virginia. (Of course, this is a computer, so if you input "Loudon" county, you will learn only about the Tennessee county that spells its name with a single "u".)" The last time I looked there was some info there that I found confusing regarding Radnor Meeting, which I know has connections to a lot of Welsh tract families of Chester related folk. The dates listed there for Radnor cite what I think is the historical Radnor Meeting House that dates back to at least early 1700's. But in the listings the dates reflect 1950's dates when citing this meeting. This is related to the Hicksite split and there's some confusing history with Haverford and Radnor where apparently Haverford was known as Radnor at some points in time. I wanted to mention this because of the possibility over confusion resulting from records that could be cited as Radnor but found in Haverford records, and because I found the dates on the web site for Radnor confusing when I knew the meeting house had a much older history than it appears from the database info. Also, I know that many records of North Carolina Quakers are kept at Guilford College which is about 12 miles from me. I've been meaning to get there and get familiar with their resources and to try to sort out some Jordan family questions I have. There are quite a few connections between New Garden and Kennett PA Meetings and the New Garden Meeting in North Carolina and related families such as Mendenhall. I don't want to make any promises, but if anyone has records they want to research in the NC archives I may be able to assist. Please contact me privately if you have research needs in the Guilford College holdings. To unsubscribe from this list, please send the one word message, unsubscribe, to pa-old-chester-request@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PA-OLD-CHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message