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From: "J Margaret Page" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-B-I] Quaker Connections
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:39:19 +0100
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What were your ancestors involved in at Wellington, Susan, and what years?
There seems to have been a Quaker school there at one time and wasn't there
some canal building going on probably mid 1700s from memory.
Margaret

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From: "Susan Hayes" <>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 2:18 AM
To: <>
Subject: Re: [Q-B-I] Quaker Connections

> Hello John,
>
> My interest is in your mention of a Sheppard connection. Were they Irish
> Quakers, by chance?
>
> My 3x great grandmother Mary Sheppard married John Simpson c 1779. She
> was
> a member of Mountmellick MM. They left Ireland in 1784 to settle in
> Wellington, Somerset. The rest of her family remained in Ireland. The
> Sheppards in Ireland go back to the beginnings of the Quakers in Ireland.
>
> Susan Hayes
> Corvallis, Oregon, USA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JOHN WITHERIDGE" <>
> To: "Quaker rootsweb" <>
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 4:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [Q-B-I] Quaker Connections
>
>
>>
>> Hello Margaret,
>>
>> Nice to hear from you.
>>
>> Yes My only male Quaker ancestor, EDWARD WITHERIDGE. was present
>> representing the navy.
>> This probably sounds odd. He met his third wife Rachel who was a
>> quaker and a widow. Her husband being very famous and also a friend of
>> Edwards Both serving together on the Bonaventure. Off the LIZARD.
>> Later
>> walter her husband was killed off the Kentish Knock Edward married
>> her.
>> and took on her children. And she mothered his daughter from a previous
>> marriage. Later in 1660 he resigned his commission (He could not serve
>> a
>> King,) but the main reason listed, as a captain with a quaker wife.
>> This
>> listing covered up to about 20 captains and ranks below.
>> Edward had been part of the Naval parliament in the mid 50s and also
>> searved with Edward Montague (Later Earl of sandwich) who actually paid
>> the fine for Edward witheridge to terminate his SUFFERINGS at RATCLIFF.
>>
>> Edward was the start of a long line of Quakers mainly the females of each
>> generation Marrying into families ie Sheppard. Cockfield. Dimsdale.
>> Gurney eventually one became the Sister in law to Elizabeth Fry.
>>
>> If any one is interested. Let me know. Or better still I could give you
>> the QFHS a talk on "my Quaker relations down through the ages." From the
>> earl of Devon raised up to the Prison reformer. What an upward
>> transition.
>>
>> Thank god that at least one of our lines were Quakers.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> John> From: > To:
>> >
>> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:05:54 +0100> Subject: Re: [Q-B-I] Quaker
>> Connections> > Hello John,> Who was the Quaker attending the funeral?>
>> Good to hear from you> Margaret>
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