Records of Huddersfield Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends 1769-1977

Huddersfield Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends.

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There were very few Quakers in Huddersfield before the Industrial Revolution. Edmund Horsefall, Edward Key and John Brook suffered distraint of goods in 1683 for being absent from the national worship; of these, the Brook family of Row in Lockwood continued to be Quaker into the 18th century. A Meeting known as Paddock was settled in the early 1770s to accommodate the large number of Friends, particularly those in the textile trade, who had removed to Huddersfield from High Flatts and Lumbroyd. ...

Society of Friends England Yorkshire History Sources

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Taylor Captain Thomas

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Ackworth School

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Celebrated Quaker school. From the guide to the ACKWORTH SCHOOL, RECORDS (C678), 1339-1988, (West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield) ...

Rawdon School

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