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Quakers -- Genealogy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Delaware County Institute of Science Genealogy Collection , 1875

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 013
Scope and Contents

Genealogical notes, charts, memoranda of various families collected by Minshall Painter and arranged and indexed by genealogist Gilbert Cope, 1875. Envelope contains Advices of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to its members in relation to the Slave trade and other notes.

Dates: 1875

Memorials of the Ancestors of the Hall Family, 1758 - 1879

 Collection — Othertype MSS-052
Identifier: MSS 052
Scope and Contents

Beautifully bound volume of Cope's research on the Ancestors of Estelle, William J., Florence, Alice, and Abby M. Hall. Quakers of Swarthmore, Pa., with close connection to Swarthmore College. Contains some original papers.

Dates: 1758 - 1879

Roberts Family Genealogical Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-131
Overview This collection consists of unpublished books and papers compiled by Charles and Lucy Roberts on the descendants of Robert Cadwalader of Wales and his children who came to America, settled in Gwynedd Township, and took the surname Roberts. After the death of Charles Roberts in 1902, his widow, Lucy Roberts, hired Gilbert Cope to continue the compilation and put it in useful order with the intention of publication. Cope had family group sheets bound into two large volumes, which he called...
Dates: 1864-1918