Hi Yvonne, Do a Google Search - - may prove helpful Perhaps subscribe and post to http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Religion/QUAKER-ROOTS.html Also Cindy's list http://www.cyndislist.com/quaker http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~quakers/boards.htm Cheers, Stella At 07:56 PM 05/11/2011, yvonne cutts wrote: >Dear Listers. > While this may not be a Sussex or even a Surrey >problem. I will take help from any where. I have an Ancestor called >ISREAL RAYNER born circa 1770 any where in the U.K >I am beginning to suspect he may be a Quaker >He married an Elizabeth Carpenter 1796 Ealing St Marys >2 daughters Jemima b 1797/98 Bermondsey > Sarah b 1800 St Luke Old St >This little family came to Australia arriving in 1801 >ISREAL was a shoemaker by trade and for the year he came to Australia he >was usless to the new country for they needed farmers. He also came free >Also he had petitioned to come here >The ship he came on was called THE NILE. had 7 Settler families and the >rest were convicts >For the year and time he was born ISREAL could read and write. His >writing was legible which to me says he had been educated >Just before this family came out there was a WILLIAM RAYNER convicted in >the old BAILEY and transported on the first fleet. His parents were Quakers >Someone suggested to me that ISREAL came her at such an early time >because some one may have already been here. Also Quakers educated their >children >Does any one know of a Forum for Quakers or where I can go for help. >Just because this man was around London does not mean he was born there. >On the I.G.I there is one ISREAL born way up north but that child died >This is a big ask I know but I intend to keep trying. This man has been >my thorn for 20 years > HELP PLEASE > Yvonne > > > >----- >No virus found in this message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 2012.0.1869 / Virus Database: 2092/4597 - Release Date: 11/04/11 > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message