John Ruse wrote: >I am an attender at Chesterfield Meeting, and have been asked by the >Children's meeting to find out more about the BINNS family of Clay >Cross. > >I have found the following from: >http://www.binns.dircon.co.uk/binnsnl17.html > >Charles Binns (1813-1887) was a member of the Liverpool Branch of the >Quaker Binns (with a seventeenth century origin at Clough Hey on the >moors west of Keighley). His grandfather Jonathan II (1747-1818] >practised medicine in Liverpool from 1781-1794, then became Supervisor >of Ackworth [Quaker] School in Yorkshire until 1804. Retiring to >Lancaster, he died there in 1812 and is buried in the yard of the >Friends' Meeting House. <snip> >I wonder if anyone can give me any more information on this family? If you search for 'Binns' on A2A you'll get some further info. http://www.a2a.org.uk/ The Lancashire Quaker catalogues have some hints. There is, for instance, a mention of a 1796 letter from John Binns concerning the future of 'Peggy', a pupil at Ackworth School, and further admissions of girls. You could email the record office and arrange for them to send you a photocopy or maybe even an email attachment of one or two of the documents? Chris