Helen and Chris, I was able to get the "Register of Burials of the People Called Quakers Belonging to the Monthly Meeting of MARSDEN in the county of Lancaster," M.DCC.:XXVI as well as two Registers of Births, etc. M.DCC.LXVI through our local LDS Gen. library who in turn ordered it from the main library in SLC. Perhaps other areas' Monthly Meeting records would be available as well. mary jane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Dickinson" <chris@dickinson.uk.net> To: <QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [Q-R] QUAKERS...England > Helene Deschenes wrote: > > >Good day, > >Would anyone with knowledge of Quaker history be able to tell me how one > can > >learn of a person or family in Lancaster prior to 1734? > >My 4th great-grandfather left that meeting to come to America with a > >certificate from the Friends there. His name was Thomas Cornthwait[e]. > >Thank you very much for your help. > > > You first step should be to look at a microfilm of the Lancashire Quarterly > Meeting or the Lancaster Monthly Meeting. > > Problem is - I can't see any microfilm in the LDS Family History Catalog, > except for a transcript by Gilbert Cope: > > English Friends records, Lancashire, births, 1650-1729, marriages, > 1655-1729, deaths, 1659-1729 > Includes monthly meetings of Hardshaw, Hardshaw East and West, Lancaster, > Marsden, Preston, Swarthmore. > > FHL BRITISH Film > 441398 Items 1-3 > > But a copy should be at the record office for Lancashire in Preston, so I > would suggest emailing them. See: > > record.office@ed.lancscc.gov.uk > http://www.archives.lancashire.gov.uk > > > You may also find that the librarian at the Friends Library in Euston, > London, would do a lookup for you. See: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~engqfhs/ > > > A microfilm will also be available at the Society of Genealogists in London, > of which I and others on this list are members. It would be a fairly easy > task to do a quick search. I'm not sure whether I'll be there at all this > year, though ... but maybe someone else will be able to do a check for you. > > http://www.sog.org.uk/ > > > Presumably too some American libraries stock the film. > > Once you've got the basic BMD details of his family, you can progress from > there. Minutes, wills, etc.. > > The only reference I found on a quick search on A2A was for the marriage of > Margaret Cornthwaite and Jame Goad in 1699 at the Lancaster Monthly Meeting > Ref: FRL 2/1/11 > > Chris > > > > ==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: Send an email to: > QUAKER-ROOTS-L-REQUEST@RootsWeb.com > The ONLY word in your message should be UNSUBSCRIBE. > >