This is just to alert members to a special offer of my new book 'An Exacting Mistress' based on the wartime correspondence of my parents, during my father's time in the Friends Ambulance Unit. He was

Dear Q-B-I members, Can I alert everyone, please, to two important items of Quaker Family History Society business? Quakers and Politics – Tuesday 20 April 2021, via Zoom Following our successful Janu

Saw this book on Ancestry UK Scottish Quakers and Early America, 1650-1700 By David Dobson 2000 edition (first published 1998) Scottish Quakers and Early America, 1650-1700 | Ancestry® Others may be i

Quakers and Politics – Quaker Family History Society, 20 April 2021 The Quaker Family History Society will be holding an online event on Tuesday 20 April on the subject of Quakers and Politics. There

Does anyone know where I might find more information or records of the Peckham Ladies African and Anti-Slavery Association? I have found one newspaper article in John Bull mentioning my great-g-grandm

For those who might be interested, the following volumes of the British Friend are available online on Google Books as Free ebooks at https://books.google.com/books/about/The_British_Friend.html?id=Pj

Hi all, It would be wonderful if someone were in a position to purchase this item, currently on sale on eBay, and inviting bids over £195. Katherine was the eldest surviving child of David Barclay, th

Agnes Yates wrote her autobiographical book “Putting the Clock Back – Reminiscences of Childhood…” in her eightieth year (about 1939). I am trying to map out a simple family tree to go with the book b

Just letting you know that it's not too late to book for this event, this coming Saturday . . . Although the notice says it's for QFHS members, any subscriber to Q-B-I is welcome to join us, whether o

-- Ben Beck Ben Beck, Secretary Quaker Family History Society, charity 1100843 www.qfhs.co.uk Quaker-British-Isles mailing list QFHS on Facebook -- Benjamin S. Beck (Ben) Q-B-I list admin Secretary, Q

Dear Listers, Our current QFHS website now includes a pdf list of Members' Interests. Go to https:qfhs.co.uk (to make sure you get the secure site) Then go to Membership from the top menu. This now ha

I would like to invite you to my group, I assure you I have only good intentions, I am not a bot or a solicitor, I believe there's still hope for humanity, this is not intended to be spam I apologise

Listers will, I'm sure, be interested to know that the Friends Historical Society has a really attractive new website, at https://friendshistoricalsociety.org.uk/ Best Ben -- Ben Beck Ben Beck, Secret

Autumn Zoom Meeting 2020 Wednesday October 14th, 4:00pm BST (UTC+1) New venture!—Happening very soon—Hurry, Register now! Historically the Society has organised two one-day meetings in various parts o

We are delighted several new subscribers have expressed an interest in joining our society rather than just this list. Anyone who is thinking of joining QFHS itself please go to https://www.qfhs.co.uk

I have noticed, in a number of advertisements by Quaker traders in 19th century newspapers, that - while making no reference to their membership of the Society of Friends - they quite often conclude t

Here's something I've not come across before: The Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough, in its report on the wedding of Robert Foster Spence and Maria Dunning in 1883, includes the following sentence: "Alm

We have had an update from Lisa McQuillan about Friends House Library closure. Lisa says:- I wanted to get in touch with QFHS to let them know our latest news about reopening. You may have seen our up

At the FHF Virtual Coffee morning today I was asked how post 1837 Quaker marriages fit in the GRO marriage numbering system. If we know that we would be able to say at which Meeting the Quaker marriag

Talking of large family trees and the SoG, is there anyone interested in the collection of (mainly?) Cumberland Quaker family trees by James Gorton Brooker? There are lots of separate trees but many o