QUAKERS

02 February, 2012 QUAKERS

Tetbury Families

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The following extract is from Vol 11 of the Gloucestershire VCH:

“A group of Quakers was established at Tetbury from the mid 1650s. The leading member was Nathaniel Cripps, a justice of the peace, whose house at Upton became the meeting-place and was visited several times by George Fox. Cripps and some other members were persecuted and imprisoned in 1660 but the meeting was still held in the 1670s. A piece of ground owned by Cripps, adjoining the Bristol road south of the town, was used as a burial ground, and in 1691 a meeting-house was built on it. The meeting flourished in the early 18th century when the leading members were tradesmen of the Lockey and Wilkins families and Hopeful Vokins (d. c. 1730), who charged his Hillsome farm estate with £1 a year for poor members of the meeting. The circular yearly meeting was held at the market-house in 1732. In 1735 the Tetbury meeting had 22 members, but it later declined and was discontinued altogether c. 1780. The meeting-house was sold in 1811.”


	In the monthly meeting book, held in Nailsworth, Sarah Wilkins, daughter of Jacob, a cheesefactor of Tetbury, & Judith, his wife, declared her vows in marriage to Thomas Newman of Worcester, WOR. Witnessing the solemnizing of the marriage on 23 June 1761 were the following names [the second column being labeled as ‘relations’]:

Mary Rodway

Sarah Sloper

Eliz. Spencer

Sarah Gale

Ann Oatridge

Ester Tippetts

Mary Tasher

Jane Wilkins

Ann Wickes

Ann Morton

Eliz. Summers

Robt. Bodington

Lydia Houldy

Ann Lance

Mary Summers

Mary Jones

Betty Selby

Sarah Jones


	Jacob Wilkins Mary Frampton Abigail Miles Judith Wilkins Saml Newman Ricd Newman Richd Frampton Eliz. Hill Robt. Gillman Richd. Fowler John Fry Corn. Fry Hannah Lockey

		SOME TETBURY QUAKERS: Two of the better known Quakers in Tetbury are Nathaniel Cripps of Upton House, and Hopeful Vokins. Other family names that appear in the registers and Monthly Meeting Books are Edgerly, Gillman, Hayward, Hern, Lockey, Ogborn, Townsend, Wilkins.


	1794 plan of the burial ground and meeting house site. Surrounding land and property belongs to Daniel Bennet. W.Screen lives in one cottage on the west boundary.

	1800 plan of the burial ground and meeting house. Lands and house previously in the possession of Daniel Bennet are now Samuel Whites. W.Screen [here spelt as Skrine] still holds the cottage to the west.

TETBURY MEETING ACCOUNTS

These are not in a formal book, but on sheets of paper and a small notebook. They provide some valuable information relating to Tetbury - names of some of the craftsmen who repaired the Meeting House over the years which provides an occupation which may not be found in other documents.

Some of those in this set of accounts are: Abraham Terril was paid 19s for building the Meeting House Yard wall in 1760; Samuel Blake, pargeter was paid £1 5s 8d for repairing the meeting house in 1777; William Witchell, carpenter was paid 14s in 1778.

Other items in these 18th century accounts show the amounts for hiring horses to Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, for shoeing the horses, building the wall around the burial ground, funeral expenses for Edgerly and alms to Edgerly both before his death and to his widow following his decease.


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