Including both Settle and Bentham Quaker Meetings

1. Add all those found in Setlle MM records
2. Other communities were under it's umbrella. Bentham was one.

Prominent Early Quakers of this Region

• Jarvis Benson
• George Bland ~ married a Gibson
• Ralph Cowgill, executed for his faith
• William Dewsbury
• Richard Farnsworth
• Robert Fell ~died shortly after attack at Bentham
• Thomas Gibson~ his mother had owned the Calf Cop land on which the Mtg. House stands
• Richard Guy
• Elizabeth Hooton wikipedia
• Tristram Ray
• Thomas Skirrow
  • at least two of his children married <Tatham> Quakers. These were offspring of Marmaduke below
• John Snowden
• Marmaduke Tatham
• John Topham
• Samuel Watson
• Elizabeth Wildman née Tatham of Tatham parish ~ died a prisoner in Lancaster castle
  • persecuted with the Tathams and Skirrows

Sources

• The Craven and the North-West Yorkshire Highlands
  • ~• from an historical perspective it would be remiss to exclude the effect that Civil War had on the Quakers of this region. "the district had suffered disastrously from the prevalent disorder and insecurity, as also from the actual depredations of the troops which overran Craven for a number of years" Year = c. 1643
    • see in particular: the references to Major General John Lambert (around page 88
• Settle burials 109-111
• Bentham Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends, pp.87-95 baptisms & 100-105; Burials 106-108
  
  • https://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=e5cd3678-f65...
  • Bolland Meeting Deaths starting 1659
• Historical perspective on Bolland at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordship_of_Bowland

"A group of First Publishers of Truth, William Dewsbury, Richard Farnsworth, Robert Fell and John Snowden, visited the market town of High Bentham in 1652 or 1653, and a number of local people were convinced. The response was not altogether favourable - Robert Fell died shortly after being attacked outside the local church. A Meeting was settled nonetheless, and was recorded in 1665 as part of Skipton Monthly Meeting, and again in 1669, as part of Settle Monthly Meeting. Its members included Jarvis Benson, George Bland, Richard Guy, Thomas Gibson, Tristram Ray and Jo[hn] Topham. A barn was bought in 1686 in Low Bentham {aka Nether Bentham} (or Calf Cop) and adapted for meetings. By the early 18th century, the Meeting was flourishing and in need of larger premises. A new Meeting House was completed in 1720 and was in use until about 1797 when it was completely rebuilt."

"The Meeting was in decline by the early 19th century. In 1853 it became part of Brighouse Monthly Meeting. Friends began to meet separately for worship in neighbouring High Bentham and in 1866, the two Meetings were combined. A Meeting House and mission hall was built on Main Street, and used until 1973, when the Meeting returned to its 18th century home in Low Bentham. The Meeting is still in existence and has been part of the re-formed Settle Monthly Meeting since 1924."

From the guide to the Records of Bentham Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1652-1982, (GB 206 Leeds University Library)

• Landcliffe & Gigglewick History - CHAPTER 15 THE CHURCH AND QUAKERS selected passages
  • Arrangement of Seats in Giggleswick Church, 1677, with Later Amendments
    • "In the first seat below Mr Watson’s pew" Samuel Watson

Skirrow surname

I have added substantial notes under the Skirrow surname {covered as a Geni surname file} (not a project)

A Shortened version of the Index to the Register of Birth (a simplified Alpha-List)

• just a few of the hundreds of inter-family links are noted here. To chronicle them all would be a monumental work. Births alone number in the many hundreds
• source: England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837 : Yorkshire Piece 1116: Monthly Meeting of Settle (1652-1775)
  
  • This source includes various (sub) Meeting communities beyond Settle such as Bentham and Bolland
    • It would be helpful in figuring out families to determine which surnames frequented each one...
      

page 9 of 296

• ARMISTEAD
• ADISON
• AIRTON
• ATKINSON .. Isabel b. 1657 and m. (p. 44)
• BANKS
• BALEY
• BATESON
• BATTERSBIE
• BLAND .. (no birth record but there are mar. & bur.; see also Giles Bland and children
• BRADLEY .. Thomas Bradley of Little Banke > ~• his dau. married an ATKINSON
• BARRET
• BEETHAM
• BENTHAM
• BEASOCKS
• BREATHERWICKE
• BIRCKBECK
• BIRKET
• BOOTHMAN
• BOND = of Newton in Bolland Thomas Bond page 12 (81 of 296) born April 7,1677 to Dorothy and John Bond
• BOULTON
• BURROW
• CAMWELL
• CARR
• CARASS
• CHADWICK
• CHAPMAN
• CLARK
• COLME
• COORE CORE COARE
• COOKSON
• CORT
• CLOUGH
• CROASDALE (future PA, USA quakers)
• CROSER
• CUMBERLAND
• CUTLER of Bolland Meeting
• DAWSON
• DAWTRY
• DAVISON .. the William Davison of Howclosegate, Mewith family
• DRAKE
• DEWHURST
• DICKINSON
• DRIVER
• EDMONDSON
• EGLIN
• ELLIS
• FRANKLAND
• FLESHER
• FOSTER
• GELDART
• GIBSON .. Ann Bland, widow Gibson, maiden name undetermined
• GLOVER
• GUY.. Amadine, Robert, John : whose father is Richard Guy of Skalborn
• HALL
• HARDACRE
• HARGRAVES
• HARRISON
• HARTLEY
• HAWORTH
• HAYHURST
• HEATON
• HEARSDON
• HESKIT
• HIGSON
• HODGSON
• HOLGATE
• HOLT
• INGHAM
• JACKSON
• JOHNSON
• KAUMBER
• KENDAL
• KIDD
• KING
• LABREY
• LAMBE
• MANNERING
• MARSHALL
• MASON..................... Richard Mason married a Wildman
• METCALF
• MITCHELL
• MOORE
• MOONE
• MORRAS
• MULVEY
• MYRES
• NICHOLSON
• OVEREND
• PARKER
• PARKINSON
• PARSONS
• PEACOCK
• PEARSON
• PRESTON
• PHILLIPSON
• PRIESTLEY
• POTTER
• PROCTOR
• RAY
• ROBARTS
• ROBINSON
• RUDD
• SLATER
• SEDGEWICK
• STEVENSON
• SHIRES
• SKIRROW
• SMITH
• SQUIRE
• SCOTT
• STONEY
• STOTT
• SUTCLIFFE
• SWYER
• TATAUM
• TATHAM .............WILDMAN TIES
• TAYLFORTH
• TENNANT
• TILLISTON
• THIRNBECK
• THISTLETHWAITE
• TOMLINSON
• TOPHAM
• TOWNSON
• TURNER
• WADDINGTON
• WAIRDING & WADIRING
• WALMSLEY .........................
• WALNE ................................
• WALTON
• WARD .................................. Wildman marriage
• WATSON
• WARFE
• WHALLEY
• WEATHERALD (?) note that <Weathered> is a long-standing surname in the area
• WETHERILT
• WIGGLESWORKS
• WILDE ................................Wildman marriage
• WILDMAN .. ......................... there are circa 41 Wildman births
• WILKENSON
• WILSON
• WINDLE
• WORRALL ................................. I recall a Worrall marriage in Quaker Pennsylvania

The Index to the Register of Marriages

begins at page 28 of 296
I do not list them .

The Index to the Register of Burials

begins on page 40 of 296

sources

• http://www.settlequakers.org.uk/our-history/meetinghouse/ (added in documents)