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Some Special Interests => Quaker Family History => Topic started by: bearkat on Friday 02 October 15 20:26 BST (UK)
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Are there any baptism or marriage records online for London/Southwark Quakers?
Several sites have burials and show a surname I am researching so I'm trying to discover more information.
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The records have been deposited with the Friends Library
http://old.quaker.org.uk/library
They aren't online after 1837. Births and marriages after that date should be found in the GRO indexes.
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Thank you. I will investigate the Friends Library.
I'm looking for records 1700-50.
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Ancestry have some online
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The records have been deposited with the Friends Library
http://old.quaker.org.uk/library
A note on the website states that this link will be overtaken by a new site ( same info) in 2016. For those interested just remove the old. in Dawns post :)
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All the Quaker BMDs pre-1837 are online at Ancestry (and note it is is births, not baptisms, which Quakers didn't do.)
Even easier, unless you want to see original images: the Quaker Family History Society http://qfhs.co.uk/index.html (http://qfhs.co.uk/index.html) has published a digital transcript of the digest registers for the whole of London and Middlesex on CD.
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All the Quaker BMDs pre-1837 are online at Ancestry.
Thank you for that piece of information. :)
Sadly the baptism I'm looking for isn't there. :(
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I've been looking at these on-line records.
I'm researching the VAUS family in London/Southwark.
All the records are burials. There are no births.
Would any children have been baptised in C of E churches? (not that I've found any there either :( )
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Only if the parents weren't Quakers at the time - though they could have joined the Society of Friends later.
When I enter 'Vaus' in the search box it comes up with 31 entries. These include 9 births, but of variant spellings. Some of these could be relevant.
The earliest Vaus burial entries are all for people born before the start of Quakerism (usually taken as 1652). So you wouldn't expect to find their births in Quaker records (though sometimes these are recorded retrospectively).
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I found 12 VAUS and variants in the London Quaker records. They are all burials but mention their years of birth.
I have found a burial record for Benjamin VAUS in 1766 at St Saviour, Southwark. I wonder if he fits in with these Quaker families. His wife had died and a friend arranged the burial. With no Quaker burial I don't have a birth. He may, of course, been C of E but I haven't been able to find a baptism.
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I assume you have tried Vaux? I have a Susannah Vaux listed in the 1843 Annual Monitor of Obituaries listing her as 93 from Croydon Surrey ( excuse my geographic ignorance as to closeness to Southwark) - so born approx. 1750
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Yes, this is a name that has many variants and transcription errors.
There was a Benjamin VAUS who was baptised in September 1748 at Croydon who I feel is a bit young to be my man as he married his second wife in 1762.
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All the Quaker BMDs pre-1837 are online at Ancestry (and note it is is births, not baptisms, which Quakers didn't do.)
I still haven't managed to visit the Friends Library :(
I'm still trying to knock down this brick wall.
Are there any Quaker marriage records for London?