Common Quaker Names
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2018
- Cadwallader, Milhous, Trueblood, Farlow, Sharpless, and Wilbur… what do they all have in common? They are all historic Quaker names, remnants of a time when Quakers “married in” and families stayed Quaker for generations.
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Transcript:
Max Carter: Today, probably about 80% of Quakers in attendance or membership in our meetings are not generational Quakers. They are newcomers or first or second generation Friends. You don’t find the old ethnic names much anymore, but if you go outside this meetinghouse where we’re filming right now into that cemetery, the first circles of the gravestones in that cemetery are going to be Hinshaws, Beesons, Knights, Ballingers, Coffins, Starbucks, Macys, Gardeners, the old ethnic Quaker names.
That began to change in the late 1800s as Quakers began to assimilate into the Protestant mainstream and began to marry out.
Common Quaker Names
Mary Crauderueff: There are so many values to knowing your Quaker ancestry. Some people just really like to know as part of their identity: “who am I made of? Who do I come from?” I hear stories all the time of people that say that they started going to meeting because they heard that they had Quaker ancestry. “My great-great-grandfather was Quaker, I grew up Presbyterian, but I thought that I would try a Quaker meeting” and they’re curious.
I don’t think that it makes us more or less Quaker than someone else, but I think that it can be really cool to think about your family as being part of the same tradition that you are. I think that has a lot of value.
How Quaker Reused Names
Max Carter: For much of our history, Quakers were “endogamous” the sociological term for “marrying in”. You were to marry another Quaker, which meant that over the generations, there were common names. I look at my own 11 generations of Quaker in my family tree and its a trunk-it’s Newlins and Johnsons and Bundys and Carters.
Mary Crauderueff: So something that you should know about Quaker names is that they liked to repeat themselves. You might find a John Evans, and then you might find a John Evans that was born 15 years later. And what you might find is that they’re cousins or that they’re uncle and nephew. So it wasn’t just the last names that they used over and over but the first names as well.
Common Quaker Names By Region
Thomas Hamm: When you’re thinking of common Quaker names, you have to think in terms of geography. So for example, if you’re thinking of New England Friends, unfortunately one of the most common and prominent families was named Jones, which can be a challenge under any circumstances, but you would also look for names like Green, like Hoxie, like Arnold, like Meader, like Wilbur.
On Long Island, I would guess that about half of all Quaker families before 1800 were connected with the Hicks, the Seaman, the Titus or the Bowen families.
Pennsylvania
Max Carter: If you’re up in Philadelphia for example, Biddles, Cadwalladers, Banks, Bailey, those sorts of names. Wisters and Sharplesses.
Thomas Hamm: Naturally around Philadelphia where you have the largest concentration of Friends, you have more distinctively Quaker names. I think in terms of just numbers, the Smedleys, the Hoopes, the Sharplesses were probably the largest in terms of prolificness.
North Carolina
Max Carter: Here in North Carolina where we’re filming today, you can still find pockets of those old ethnic Quaker names. If you’re a Winslow in North Carolina, you know you’re probably from Perquimans and Pasquotank counties. If you’re a Shore, you’re from Deep Creek Meeting over in Yadkin county. If you’re a Farlow or a Beeson, you’re from Marlboro Meeting down in Randolph county. An Osborne, that’s going to be Centre Meeting or perhaps Spring Meeting.
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Descendant of the Moon family here, which I was surprised wasn't mentioned. They sailed over with William Penn 😊
Who is William Penn 🤔
I graduated from a Quaker friends school and I learned alot about nature n vegan dishes lol
My buddy"s grandfather is Stockton Strawbridge, one of the 2 founders of the Philly area department store, Strawbridge & Clothier. I only met him once but he (and their grandmother) spoke in classic Quaker plain speak
Sharpless descendant here! Possibly also descended from some Randolph County, NC Quakers. I had no idea and the records were kind of drying up until I happened upon this video and now I feel like a whole new treasure trove has opened up to me!
Most of my family settle in Randolph County, NC.... After migrating from, New Jersey. Many years later, migrated to the west/northwestern states. They were Quakers, and due to persecution left England.
Descended from an Owen line, Welsh Quakers who went from Wales to Pennsylvania to North Carolina to Wrightsboro, GA, to the Midwest. Still an Owen!
My ancestors are the Maris, who married Foulkes and my Mother’s maiden name is Hatton.
My name is Arnold Hatton Haynes
As I watch these video I have been finding more and more Quakers in my family tree. Some I had no clue about, some I thought were other religions before the last few weeks.
I found out today & traced it back to 1728 of the Sanders family. What is good about the ease in finding it was that we kept the names along the way. My Grandma from Wilmington also believed in telling us our family history so I was the one who was most interested in it being an fine artist. I believe some of my family are buried near there or had been moved to a different area via ancestry & findagrave. Anyway it’s very interesting and thanks for sharing these nuggets of info.
Robert peele III was my 10th great grandfather!! He was a Quaker
My ancestors the Wrights were also Quakers and settled Oyster Bay NY. They are semi-famous. Lots of stuff about them online. That one family is said to have settled a lot of places and they did do a lot of things in history. They were a royal family before they moved here. Descended down from Lord Thomas Wright and many other Wrights in history.
Brown(e), William & James (1683 &1681). Helped establish Nottingham Lots from 1701 to 1711. Also helped build the Brick Meeting House, Cecil County, MD.
Quaker Family names in our tree (West Jersey) Zane, Chattin, Hillman, Collins/Collings, Hillman, Ashbrook, Marple and others. Growing up I knew other Quaker descendant families ( later to find out these friends and I share the same Quaker family tree) seem to go from being Quaker then became Methodist.
Silly question, but do Friends today use the virtues as given names i.e. Faith, Hope, & Charity ?
What about Moon
I’m second generation quaker(is that what’s it’s called) so I found this video very interesting, thank you!
Welsh family migrated to NY and Pennsylvania last name Davis. I’m Kathren Davis my dad Richard Davis and lots of Richards and Katherines. Welsh Quaker ancestor rev William Davis. 🥰
I have Woolman,Cox,Burr,Hudson do I keep on going? I have Quakers all the way back to 1632!
Love this. Thank you for the video. Just getting started on my genealogy research. My Quaker family on my father's side were Stanley. Although, many names you mentioned I have DNA matches and are in other people's trees. I am guessing I will find them with time.
I don't know much about Quaker's yet, but my mom was a Jehovah's witness and there seem to be some similarities
What up strange fellows. My family(those who weren't of Jewish origin) were english Quakers who were underground railroad participants, including the Nutt's and Robbin's. What do you guys do these days besides have tremendous beards? Quakers are most famous for their humanitarian works :>
Greengrocer's apostrophes
Nicholson Descendent here. Perquimans, North Carolina
Mine is the reynolds and Clarke's (shoes) both Uk also s a salter of inner london early 2th century
We could've just said British family surnames from England, Wales, Scotland. In Britian, we still have big banks like Barclays, Choclate manufactures such as Cadburys, shoe shops like Clarks, and many others founded by Quaker families. Barclay, of course, was Quakerism's greatest theologian, and hailed from a prominent Scottish family.
We are probably related as my great grandmother was a Newlin.
I feel like we are related. I’m from the Maris line and I recalled seeing Newlin in there somewhere. I just purchased the 1883 bicentennial of the Maris to America book. The name is in there.
I'm very interested in becoming a Quaker
Maddock?
Harris and Cox here...presentt day Welch
Bowne from LI is a well nown Quaker family.
Sadly you omitted 99% of my family. Grandpa was out of the Smiths and Charity Penn. Grandma was Jenkins and Baldwin. Dillon, Gawthrop, Ruckman, and Woolman come to mind. I wish I could share my tree that goes back to Rambo in 1639. Mechurchlady12 on Ancestry
NIXON WAS A QUAKER
Hoover and Waymire ancestors here
My Quaker dad had a cat named biddle 🤣
Please how do I become a Quaker. I just saw a video normalizing Genetic Splicing and I'm honestly scared of this New World
Descendant of the Lambs or Lams from North Carolina here.
Hey brother ❤
@@geodude6244 sister. Lol
@@4jones82 even better ;)
My daughter's grandmother was a Trueblood and gave me a published book, The Truebloods in America, a record of the Trueblood genealogy.
What is a birthright Quaker? Can there be a break in the heritage of the birthright Quaker?
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