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Quakers -- Genealogy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

Darlington Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-296
Overview This collection contains the papers of the Darlington family of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Woodstown, New Jersey. Quakers with strong ties to Swarthmore College, the family was involved in education, social and peace concerns, and businesses in the Philadelphia area. Charles J. Darlington (1894-1966) served as Clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends during the reunification of the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. The collection includes family...
Dates: 1831-2012

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

Descendants of Alphonsus Kirk , 1893 - 1969

 Collection — Othertype MSS-022
Identifier: MSS 022
Scope and Contents

Carbon of typed notes of additional research, loose in front of volume. Two black and white snapshots attached opposite title page, Center Meeting and property owned by Alphonsus Kirk.

Dates: 1893 - 1969

Descendants of Joseph Pennock and Mary Levis (draft), 1995

 Collection — Othertype MSS-049
Identifier: MSS 049
Scope and Contents

A draft of a Pennock genealogy, compiled by J. Roland Pennock. Computer generated copy. Chuck Gilbert transferred Pennock's files from an obsolete computer program and made a computer printout for Helen Pennock.

Dates: 1995

Emlen and Jones Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1194
Overview

Ancestral information on the Quaker Emlen and Jones families going back to the time of William Penn and Francis Daniel Pastorius in the 17th century and comprised of genealogy and biography, letters, documents and photographs.

Dates: 1767-1976

Friends Historical Library collection of genealogical manuscripts

 Consolidated manuscripts collections
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-GEN
Overview

This collection consolidates genealogical manuscripts into a single genre -- FHL Genealogical Manuscripts.

Dates: 1758 - 2001

Genealogy of the Willets Family and Samuel and Ann (Buffin) Brown, 1949

 Collection — Othertype MSS-017
Identifier: MSS 017
Scope and Contents

Typescript in binder. Ann (Brown) Willets was the grandmother of the compiler, Charles R. Willits. She descended from a long line of Quakers as was her husband, Henry Willits of Maiden Creek, Berks County, Pa. Charles Willits also made a typescript of the Willets genealogy compiled by Thomas Montgomery Lightfoot. Both were copied, bound, and cataloged in 2000.

Dates: 1949

Samuel B. Haines Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-055
Overview

Samuel Bowne Haines (1834-1913) was a banker and a minister in New York Monthly Meeting. The collection contains family correspondence (1859-1869), expense book of Samuel B. Haines, and Quaker manuscripts, possibly by Mary Caley. Also includes genealogical and biographical materials on the Haines, Gaskill, and related families.

Dates: 1850-1894

John Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-077
Overview The John family was a Quaker family of Uwchlan and Shamokin Valley in Pennsylvania. The collection contains family correspondence, diaries, business and legal documents, memorabilia, pictures, and miscellaneous papers of the Reuben John family. Correspondents include Joanna Griffith, Phebe John, Ann Haines, Sarah H. Janney, Reuben John, Abia and Patty John, Pamela Brenholts, and their descendents. Also contains genealogical files of Don D. John which includes original family correspondence,...
Dates: 1775-1951

Kirk Brown Genealogical Research, circa 1920s

 Collection — Othertype MSS-015
Identifier: MSS 015
Scope and Contents

Genealogical data abstracted from Quaker records and other sources including wills and deeds. Mostly meetings under Baltimore Yearly Meeting, organized by the source rather than surname.

Dates: circa 1920s