Dear Friends, I am seeking information about the Quaker connections of my ancestors from Leicester in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. My sixth great-grandfather, Francis Arnold, was a Freeman hosier of Leicester. Oral tradition has it that he was a member of the Religious Society of Friends. He married Anne Farren. I do not have any exact dates other than that his wife died in 1757, and one of their six known children, William, was born in 1698 in Leicester. It appears he became a Baptist. We do not know what became of the other children of Francis and Anne, but do know the names of some of them: Thomas, Robert, Anne, Jane and John. Thomas was a doctor. William's son was also a doctor (being the Dr Thomas Arnold of Leicester who operated an asylum there and wrote a number of works on mental illness). Would there be anyone on the list who could point me in the right direction re seeking information? Kind regards, Lynn Arnold