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From: Chris Pitt Lewis <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] UK Quaker Schools
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 21:27:40 +0100
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In article <015001c2338a$b413dfe0$>, Roslyn Mckearney
<> writes
>Hello All,
>
>Can anyone tell me of any Quaker Schools in the UK and in particular the
>Lancaster area in the early 1900's, please.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Regards,
>Roslyn McKearney - South Australia

There was a Friends' School in Lancaster from around 1700 until 1969.
The school was run by the Lancaster Preparative (or perhaps the
Monthly?) Meeting, and the school room was attached to the Meeting
House, which was and is in Meeting House Lane, Lancaster.

There is a book: "History of the Friends' School, Lancaster" by R H S
Randles, privately published in Lancaster in 1982. I have not seen this
book. I would imagine that Friends House Library in London, the local
public library in Lancaster and the British Library will all have
copies.

My source for this information is R Dove & H Segebarth: A History of the
Friends' Meeting House Lancaster, available from the Quaker Family
History Society bookstall (see www.qfhs.co.uk).

I would guess that surviving records of the school will be found with
the records of Lancaster PM and MM, which (I think) are probably
deposited at Lancashire Record Office, Preston.
--
Chris Pitt Lewis

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