A - C

People with names beginning in A,B, or C.
. . . . Addams of Thistleworth co. Midd. yeoman, convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II.

William Alchin, donated £1 towards the building of the first meeting house.

Ashby Family
The Ashby family of Staines have links into many of the Uxbridge Quaker families... the Hulls and the Crowleys were both related to the Ashbys by marriage. It would be fair to count them also as members of Uxbridge meeting in their own right, because in 1810 the Quakers were meeting at Staines, Uxbridge and Isleworth in rotation. By 1820, according to the Victoria County History for Middlesex, the Staines meeting was meeting weekly on its own account.

The Ashby family were the backbone of the Staines meeting for some time...in 1868, 34 of the 50 members were Ashbys, and they remained a strong support into the 20th century.

Thomas Ashby(1733-1813) was the son of Robert Ashby of Shillingford and Mary Lamb(1707/8-1794) and uncle to Anna Ashby (1759-1843) who married John Hull of Uxbridge (b.1755) he was a mealman, brewer and banker, who founded Thomas Ashby Senr and Sons, a bank in Staines, and a brewery.

Thomas Ashby(1762-1841) was a mealman, brewer and banker, and was born at Staines to Thomas Ashby (1733-1813) and Hannah Wickens (1733?-1818). Thomas Ashby junior married Kitty Crowley(1760-1796) in 1784, daughter of William Crowley (1717-1783) of Shillingford and Katherine Stiles (1720-1795), who was sister of Ann Crowley of Uxbridge meeting.

Eleanor Ashby (b.1808) married John Fell (1786-1865) in 1847 as his third wife, after two Hull wives had died.

John Bailey of Uxbridge Common

Watchword to the True Quaker, printed 1836

Christian Religion in a small compass 1835

Died Hillingdon End, Uxbridge, 1t of 8^th month, 1861

Edward "Philp" Bastin (1842-1921)

Was born Edward Phillip Bastin, but always known as Philp which was the surname of an ancestor. He was an interesting and unusual man, schoolmaster, fish merchant and engineer, son of Edward Bastin (1810-1883) and Catherine Lidgey (1810-1879). He went to Sidcot School and briefly taught there too. He married Jane (1845-1904), daughter of Stafford Allen (1806-1889) and Hannah Ransom (1813-1880). They spent time in a number of places, including around 15 years in Uxbridge, where they set up various schools, including an evening school for adults in West Drayton. He later married Elsie Warner (1873-1967), in 1910, daughter of Henry Warner (1837-1896) and Elizabeth Jane Hull (1836-1909). There were no children of the second marriage.

He had three surviving sons and two daughters from his first marriage, and moved around a lot. In 1874 from Stoke Newington to Uxbridge and West Drayton, in 1890 to Kingston upon Thames, in 1902 to Rowlands Castle, then Milford Haven, Ettington near Stratford upon Avon, then Devon and finally Dorset.

Michael Beedle of Iver, yeoman, mentioned on the 1692 indenture

Abraham Browne and Joanna his wife of Ovington mentioned on the 1692 indenture.

Nathaniell Browne, of Saint Saviour's Southwark, brewer, mentioned on the 1692 indenture

Samuel Browne and Hannah his wife of Harefield, mentioned on the 1692 indenture.

William Browne and Elizabeth his wife, maltster of Alton, mentioned on the 1692 indenture

Edward Burrough (1634/5-1663)

Born in Kendal, Westmoreland, son of James Burrough. In 1652 he heard a sermon by George Fox which convinced him spontaneously. He was disinherited by his family and when his parents died in 1658, he would have nothing to do with their funeral.

He travelled widely in England and went to Flanders, Ireland, and Scotland, often in the company of Francis Howgill (1618-1669) and was supported financially by Margaret Fell, who later married George Fox.

It was said of him that he had the ability “to speak a word of consolation to those that were of a broken heart.”

He wrote a number of important pamphlets and documents, engaging in debate with John Bunyan at the end of the 1650s.

In 1662 Burrough was arrested in London and sent to Newgate prison. He died there aged 29 of a fever, having spent the previous eight months in a hole with other prisoners in inhuman conditions.

William Cathvell, donated £1 towards the building of the first meeting house.

Thomas Caymore, donated £8 towards the building of the first meeting house.

Thomas Chandler, paid £4 towards the building of the first meeting house.

James Chapman of Thistleworth co. Midd. yeoman, convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II.

Jonathan Cock of Ruislip, chapman, mentioned on the 1692 indenture, paid £5 towards the building of he meeting house in 1693.

Richard Cooke, husbandman 17th century member of meeting, donated £1 towards the building of the first meeting house

William Cottrell of Twitenham co. Midd. yeoman and his wife, convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II.

John Crosier the Younger of Ickenham, gent mentioned on the 1692 indenture.

Ann Crowley 1765-1826

Born May 8, 1765 a Shillingford in Oxfordshire, the sixth of eight daughters of William Crowley. Ann had a religious experience at the age of 16, and can be forgiven her somewhat morose outlook, given that she lost her father to apoplexy in 1783, and her older sister Mary Ashby in 1791. Having decided she might be called to the ministry, she accompanied two travelling ministers, Deborah Darby and Rebecca Young from Coalbrookdale.

She continued to travel in the ministry, making longer journeys with other ministers, always carefully noting the mileage travelled, and she went to Wales in 1794. When her mother died the following year, Ann was the oldest at home, but preoccupied with her life as a minister. The worry made her ill, but she recovered when a house was found for the family at Uxbridge.

Three weeks after her move to Uxbridge, her sister Catherine Ashby (who had married the brother of Mary's husband) died, leaving six children in need of care. The aunts took it in turns to stay with their brother-in-law at Staines, although Ann did not involve herself much, being busy accompanying Phoebe Speakman from Pennsylvania on travels in the ministry throughout Englad, Scotland and Wales.

Ann continued to travel extensively, but her health broke down and she was forced to say at home for three years. She interspersed travel with nursing her sister Rebecca up to her death and then travelling to Hastings with her youngest sister, Martha, while they both recuperated from illness. She was never strong enough to travel after that, and died after extreme suffering on April 10, 1826, aged 60.

She left a journal of her religious experiences which is full of long sentences and a lot of phrases which became popular with the Evangelical revival. Some account of Religious experience of Ann Crowley printed in 1842. Reprinted as part of the Friends library in 1843.She died 10^th of fourth month 1826 aged 60.

D - E

People beginning with D - E.

Thomas Davison, tenant of one of the Lynch cottages mentioned in the 1692 indenture for the land.

Thomas Dell
Member of Uxbridge meeting, attended William Penn's marriage to Guilielma Springett in 1672 and was also mentioned in the indenture which conveyed the land for the meeting house twenty years later.

Thomas Ellwood (1639-1713)
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature says: "Thomas Ellwood, son of an Oxfordshire squire, was a man of liberal education, who, though he moved in good society, was constrained in early years to throw in his lot with the despised “people of God.” He was an intimate friend of William Penn and Isaac Penington; and, through the good offices of the latter, he was for some years engaged as reader to the poet Milton in his blindness. It was Ellwood, according to a doubtful tradition who, after reading with delight the manuscript of Paradise Lost, suggested to Milton the theme afterwards worked out in Paradise Regained."

Ellwood kept a wonderful diary, including his time in prison, which is now available at Project Gutenberg. It's a very interesting and entertaining read. Did the accounts for the first Uxbridge Meeting House although these are not mentioned in his diary.

F- G

People with names beginning in F or G

Robert Farming, tenant of one of the Lynch cottages mentioned in the 1692 indenture for the land.

John Fell (1786-1865) corn and flour factor, was born at Clink Street, Southwark, London, 29 August 1786, younger surviving son (there were three surviving daughters) of John Fell (1751-1835) and Mary Fell (born Booth, 1752-1829). He became a corn and flour factor in Southwark. He married in 1816 Elizabeth Dymond Hull (1790-1819), daughter of Samuel Hull (1764-1819) of Uxbridge, mealman and Fidelity Hull (born Stark 1769-1792). There was one son and one daughter (both of whom died in infancy). A year or two after his wife's death he retired from business and moved to the Hermitage, Uxbridge, (shown above, grateful thanks to Tony Mitchell for the image) which was to be his home for the rest of his life.

He married, secondly, in 1823, Jane Hull (1798-1842), daughter of John Hull (1755-1816) late of Uxbridge, mealman, and Anne Hull (born Ashby, 1760-1843). He married thirdly, in 1847, Eleanor Ashby (1808-1849) daughter of Robert Ashby (1766-1844) late of Staines, mealman, and his second wife Mary Ashby (born Albright 1774-1835). There were no children of the second or third marriages. Though "unobtrusive in his manners" (Uxbridge journal obituary) he responded readily during his long retirement to calls upon his time and generosity. He was a committed friend and was a very frequent representative of London and Middlesex QM to the yearly meeting of friends in Britain, held in the City. In the autumn of 1865, while on a visit to his brother-in-law Burwood Godlee (1802-1882) at Lewes, he was struck by paralysis and after ten days incapacity, died at Godlee's home 10 November 1865. Obituary in Broadwater's Uxbridge Journal 18 xii 1865 as quoted in the Friend (1865) ns v.272-3.

Anna Hull Fell (1809-1839) daughter of Richard Fell (1782-1845) and Mary Hull (1788-1846) married in 1835 Henry Pease (1807-1881) woollen manufacturer, town developer and railway director from Darlington, youngest son of Edward Pease (1767-1858) and Rachel Whitwell (1771-1833). They had one son, Henry Fell Pease. More about the Pease family here.

John Hull Fell (1816-1854) was the son of Richard Fell (1782-1845) and Mary Hull (1787-1846), and nephew of John Fell above. I know little about him, except that he lived at Belmont, and died in very sad circumstances. He was at Cairnbank, County Forfar, in 1854, and died on January 30, five days after his only son, Richard. His poor wife, Elizabeth formerly Bowes, having seen both her son and her husband die, then died herself on February 3, 1854.

I must admit that I wonder if they were in County Forfar trying to avoid the fevers and epidemics which had already decimated the population of Uxbridge meeting.

Mary Jane Fell, Anna Fell and Charlotte Hull Fell were his surviving daughters, named in the will of their uncle John Fell.

Richard Fell (1782-1845), flour factor, was born near St Saviour's Dock, Bermondsey, 1 January 1782, elder surviving son (there were three surviving daughters) of John Fell (1751-1835) and Mary Booth (1752-1829) his wife. By his twenties he was established in Southwark as a flour factor. He married in 1808 Mary Hull (1788-1846) daughter of John Hull (1755-1816) and Anna Ashby (1759?-1843). There were three sons, one of whom died in infancy, and one daughter. In 1821 the family moved to Uxbridge, where he died in 1845. His only daughter Anna married Henry Pease (1807-1881) of Darlington.

Richard Fenn, Maltman, 17th century member of meeting

Ann Fowler (1760-1808) daughter of Thomas Fowler (1729?-1783), of Melksham, mercier and clothier and Catherine Rutty (1727-1762) married Samuel Hull (1764-1819) mealman. This Ann Fowler, latterly Hull was sister to Robert Fowler (1755-1825) of Melksham wine and spirits merchant, whose son John Fowler (1792-1861) married Rebecca Hull.

George Fox (1624-1691)
Founder of the Quakers, he went about the country ministering to groups of people and sometimes baiting the clergy in their "steeple houses". He thought a paid clergy was wrong and that people could experience Christ at first hand and didn't need clergy to intercede for them.

He was the son of a weaver from Leicestershire, and apprenticed to a cobbler himself. He was the eldest of four children, and his parents were relatively wealthy.

He was a serious child, and although without formal schooling, he learned to read and write. “When I came to eleven years of age,” he said, “I knew pureness and righteousness; for, while I was a child, I was taught how to walk to be kept pure. The Lord taught me to be faithfull in all things and to act faithfuly two ways; viz: inwardly to God and outwardly, to man.”

One of the guiding principles of his life was the pursuit of simplicity, and the time he spent as a shomaker and grazier, or shepherd, helped form his views on this. Abandoning his trade, he toured Britain as a dissenting preacher, for which he was often persecuted by the authorities.

He called churches “steeple-houses”, and disagreed that religious experience was confined to a particular building, worshipping in the open and in people's houses, as God's presence could be felt everywhere. He disliked the idea of people being ministers simply because they were paid, rather than moved by the spirit.

He reasoned that as God was within, faithful believers could follow their inner guide rather than rely on external guidance or on strict reading of the Bible. He believed that Christ was able to speak to people directly, and that they didn't need priests to intercede for them.

In 1647 Fox began to preach publicly in market place, fields, and even sometimes in churches after the priests had finished. The group of people who formed around him at first called themseles the children of Light, then the Friends of the Truth, and later simply, Friends. There seem to have been two types of meeting at this time: a silent waiting meeting similar in form to the unprogrammed meetings we hold today and a declaration of faith.He travelled the country and also the Low countries and North America, being arrested and imprisoned often. In Derby in 1650 a judge mocked Fox when he exhorted him to “tremble at the word of the Lord” and called him and his followers “Quakers”, which is now used by Friends for themselves.

Fox developed his beliefs about not swearing oaths, not acknowledging titles, social equality for everyone, over the course of many imprisonments in 1664, '56, '60, '62, '64-66, '73-75. He sought to set an example when imprisoned and saw it as an opportunity to have contact with people who needed him, both the prisoners and jailers. By 1655 his meetings were attracting crowds of over thousand. In that year he was arrested and brought before Cromwell, but was released again without charge.

In January 1661, Fox issued a document which laid out the peaceful nature of the Quakers, to reassure the King in the aftermath of the Monmouth rebellion that Quakers would not take arms against the King, and this became the basis for Quaker Peace testimony.

Fox married Margaret Fell, widow of Judge Fell, a woman of money and position in 1669 at a meeting in Bristol. They initially pursued mostly separate lives, with Margaret returning to the North of England, while Fox went to London and then on to America and the West Indies.

He spent the final years of his life working to organise the expanding Quaker movement, writing and editing his writings, and travelling occasionally to the continent, although his health had suffered from the years of imprisonment and persecution. He lived to see the introduction of the Act of Tolerance, which made life easier for nonconformists in England, and made it legal for Quakers to meet.

He died two days after preaching as usual at the Gracechurch Street meeting house in London in 1691. He is buried at Bunhill Fields in London. His journal was first published in 1694, afer editing by Thomas Ellwood, who also kept the accounts for the building of the first Meeting House in Uxbridge.

William Franklyn of Harmonsworth co. Midd. yeoman, convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II.

Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845)

By the time that Elizabeth Fry started her work in Newgate prison, Quakers were no longer being imprisoned for their beliefs, but she must have known that Quakers in the previous century often died in prison.

Prisons were dirty, chaotic places, where people had to organise their own work and their own food and bedding in the 17^th century, as Thomas Ellwood, among others, had written to describe.

Quaker and prison reformer Elizabeth Fry lived in Plashet House, East Ham, from 1809 to 1829. She mentioned coming to Uxbridge in her diary for 1823,and her family seem to have been friendly with the Hulls of Uxbridge.

Elizabeth Gurney was born in Norwich to a rich Quaker family in 1780. Her father and mother both came from banking families. She was well educated, and helped her mother to visit the poor and sick, although her mother died when she was only 12 and she then had to help look aftr her younger brothers and sisters.

When she was 18 years old, her diary recorded going to meeting for worship on 4 February, 1798, (wearing purple boots with scarlet laces!). She heard William Savery, an American Quaker, speak in meeting for worship. Later that day she went to dine at her uncle 's house, and was deeply impressed by William Savery, 'a truly good man' she wrote. 'I have felt there is a GOD', and she began to understand true worship. Having enjoyed notoriety with her sistersfor their gay dress in Meeting, she struggled with the idea that she might be meant to be a plain quaker, but eventually adopted plain dress. She married Joseph Fry, another plain Quaker, when she was 20, and she had 11 children.

She first visited Newgate prison in 1813 at the request of Stephen Grellet, another friend, and was horrified by what she saw. There were over 300 women and children crowded in a very small space. Prisoners lay on the stone loor and children had no clothes. She returned three times in three days, with warm clothing and straw for the sick women and children, but because of difficulties in the family didn't return for nearly four years.

Prisoners had to pay for everything in gaol. Thre were no toilets, just a bucket in the corner, and little drinking water. In 1817 Elizabeh Fry organised a group of women to help the female prisoners in Newgate Prison. She provided materials so that the female prisoners could sew and knit things to sell.

She started a prison school for the children. In 1818 she spoke to a house of commons committee about life in prison, becoming the first woman to present evidence to parliament and leading to the passing of the 1823 Gaol act which made some improvements. She visited prisons all oer Britain and argued for improvements. She wrote a book about prison conditions. She helped improve conditions on prison ships traveling to Australia and visited 106 to provide the prisoners with a bag of useful things and materials to make patchworks on the voyage that coud be sold on arrival to provide income.

After her husband went bankrupt in 1828, Fry's brother became her business manager and benefactor, and thanks to him her work went on and expanded. Her husband was excluded from membership because he had put other people's money at risk, and on;y one of her children remained a Quaker. She withstood a lot of criticism from within the Society for neglecting her family in favour of public works whch brought personal fame.

She set up District Visiting Societies to work with the poor, libraries for Coastguards and training courses for nurses. Her work inspired Florence Nightingale, who took a team of Fry's nurses to assist wounded soldiers in the Crimean war.

She died in October 1845, and is buried at the Friends' Burial Ground in Barking. Over a thousand people stood in silence during her burial.

Fourth Month 7^th We went to Uxbridge, though naturally rather a low time, yet it ended with my real comfort. The Morning Meeting was a very solemn one, a deep feeling of good and the anointing of the Spirit appeared freely poured forth. The evening Meeting was satisfactory; and in several religious opportunities in the families my heart was enlarged in much love to the dear Friends there; whom I think I may say, I love in the Lord.

Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry

1801 It has already been shown that in 1801 her attention was called to Joseph Lancaster, who, struggling under difficulties and embarrassments, had assembled around him a large school of very poor children, in an upper chamber in Southwark.

She had also formed some valuable friendships with superior and excellent people. Of this number was her cousin Joseph Gurney Bevan, her father's early friend, whom she especially esteemed; John Hull of Uxbridge, and Rachel Smith, a Friend living in London, all judicious counsellors, and her frequent companions.

1809

Plashet, sixth month 13^th – After having gone through so much since I last wrote, it is difficult for me to express all; but more particularly from rather unusual and repeatedcuases of thankfulness, in having experienced the Divine Arm held out for my ecouragement and help. I had one or two very striking times during the Yearly Meeting, as if meant to confirm my poor feeble faith. Once, when dear Ann Crowley and John Hull dined with us; before a word was spoken, or the cloth was removed from the table, my soul was brought from a dry flat isesible state o be humbly prostrate before Him, whom it hs at times desired to serve. So much so, that I felt this was eough without words from others: but it was not long before dea Ann Crowley, had to express the same, and told me the very thoughts and feelings of my mind and heart. It was indeed a wonderful confirmation; it appeared indeed true ministry, although like seeing face to face in a glass. What a blessing to be under such a living ministry, that speaks to and reveals the innermost soul! Since the Yearly Meeting, I have been gretly helped and supported through th trial of my dear sister Elizabeth Gurney's confinement: which at one time, I felt no strength to encounter; but power and courage were given me sufficient for the day.

Thomas Fuller of Thistleworth co. Midd. yeoman and his wife, convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II.

George Garwell of Heston co. Midd. yeoman, convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II.

William Garwell of Heston co. Midd. yeoman, convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II.

Thomas Gladman, tenant of the Catherine Wheel cottages as mentioned in the 1692 indenture.

William Goldar, tenant of the Catherine Wheel cottages as mentioned in the 1692 indenture.

Jabez Goldar witness, mentioned in the 1692 indenture for the land.

Francis Goodall of Draton (sic) co. Midd. and his wife, convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II.

Richard Gove died 1710

American Quaker who stayed at Uxbridge on his visit to the UK.

Fom the Journal of Thomas Chalkley: "In this year 1710, my dear friend and fellow traveller, Richard Gove, departed this life at Uxbridge, about fifteen miles from London, at our friend Richard Richardson's house. He died of a consumption. We travlled together in great love and unity, and the London blessed his work in our hands. We were in company in the West India islands, Ireland, and North Britain, till we came to Berwick on Tweed. We met together again at London and he visited some other parts of britain in the time I was in Hollnd and Germany. He was an inoffensive, loving Friend, and had a sound testimony, which was serviceable and convincing, and was well beloved in Philiadelphia, where he lived. He left a good savour and report behind him, I think, wherever he travelled."

Richard Grace, tenant of one of the Lynch cottages mentioned in the 1692 indenture for the land.

Theophilus Green
For having preached at Kingston on Thames, he was put into the stocks and fined £20. For having preached at Wandworth he was fined the same, for each of three occasions. The week following at Uxbridge, visiting the poor children of Friends whose mother and father had died, he took two of them as his own, and looked after the rest.

He went to meeting on first day, and exhorted friends to keep to their meetings in the name of Jesus, at the speaking of which a constable and informer came in and carried him away to the justice Ralph Hawtrey. He fined him £20 and sent him to Newgate in London with a mittimus. They took all his goods, leaving him neither bed nor stool and kept him prisoner for 10 months.

H

People with names beginning in H.

John Haeles of Staines, yeoman, convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II. Probably the same person as:
John Hales (sic) of Stanes co. Midd. yeoman, convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II.

Joseph Heal, Distiller, and 17th century member of meeting maybe the same man as Joseph Hale of Staines and Debora his wife.

Richard Heale, Distiller 17th century member of meeting, donated £10 for the building of the first meeting house . Probably the same man as Richard Heales (sic) of Uxbridge co. Midd. yeoman, convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II.Richard Haels (sic) of Uxbridge. Probably the same man as Richard Hale or Haile, married to Debra, collarmaker repeatedly prosecuted for attendance at meeting, mentioned on the indenture for land for Uxbridge meeting dated 1692. 35 Charles II prosecuted for meeting and for allowing a meeting at the George. A lesson for every genealogist in the variey of spellings people used for their surnames in previous centuries.

John Hayward, shoemaker from Uxbridge, father of Rebecca Hayward.

Rebecca Haward or Hayward (1660-1704/5)
Born in Uxbridge, the daughter of a shoemaker, she was married in January 1680 to Francis Richardson, son of Thomas Richardson from South Shields, Durham, at Devonshire House, London, in a Quaker ceremony. She moved to New York City with her husband. In New York, Francis was a merchant and became a freeman of the city in 1683. Together the couple had four chidren: Francis II (born 25 November 1684 at New York City), John, and two daughters named Rebecca, one dying shortly after birth. Francis I died 15 July 1688 and was buried in Long Island, New York. (Details from biographical statement here.)

By a warrant dated 1683, William Penn gave Richardson a lot in Philadelphia. After her husband's death, Rebecca and her two children went to Philadelphia to claim the land on behalf of the children. She met and married Edward Shippen, (1639-1712) a wealthy Quaker, in 1689, who later became the mayor of Philadelphia. Died 1704/5 at Philadelphia. She had at least one child with Edward Shippen, Elizabeth Shippen born 20 Oct 1691 who died on 8 August 1692 at Boston, MA [Shippen genealogy]

Francis Howgill 17th century travelling companion of Edward Burrough

Thomas Hubbard, donated £2 for the building of the first meeting house.

James Hutchins, tenant of one of the Lynch cottages mentioned in the 1692 indenture for the land.

John Hyder, cordwainer and 17th century member of meeting

John Hudson of Uxbridge, bricklayer and builder, mentioned on the 1692 indenture, and in the minutes as the builder of the first meeting house, who contributed funds to the second built in 1755.

Hull Family
The Hull family was large and prolific, with many interests in the life of the meeting and the town for over 150 years. Having experimented with various ways of presenting the information, this overview section includes a generational view of the Hulls (see below) and then their individual entries are in alphbetical order. This information comes from the Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775-1920 by Edward H. Milligan, the article on the history of the Quakers in Uxbridge by L.B. Sutherland published in the local history magazine Uxbridge Record in 1976, and the History of Uxbridge Quakers by Celia Trott, and is therefore not original research. As I confirm details independently, I shall mark these as such, as I have already found some conflicts in the various printed sources.

Generation One
Thomas Hull I (1665-1737)

Generation Two
Thomas Hull II (1696-1778) married firstly in 1724 Jane (1700-1746) then married secondly in 1764 Elizabeth Cook (1712-1783).

Generation Three
Thomas Hull III (1724-1797) married in 1749, Mary Cockbolt (1723-1794)
John Hull (1727-1789) married in ? Rebecca Goring (1730-1787)

Generation Four
No issue of John Hull.

Sons and daughters of Thomas Hull (1724-1797) and Mary his wife:
Mary Hull (1751-1819) married in 1783 John Smith (1758-1831).
Thomas Hull IV (1753-1760), died aged 7 years.
John Hull (1755-1816) married 1780 Anna Ashby of Shillingford (1759-1843)
Joseph Hull (1757-1795) married 1794 Ann Skidmore, but died a year later.
Samuel Hull (1764-1819) married 1789 Felicity Stark (1769-1792), and secondly in 1796 married Ann Fowler (born?)
William Hull (1768-1840) married 1794 Jenny Warner (1769-1845)

Generation Five
No issue of Thomas Hull
Children of John Hull (1755-1816) and Anna his wife:
Thomas Hull VI (1782-1820)
Anna Hull (1783-1843)
Charlotte Hull (1786-1819)
Mary Hull (1787-1846) married in 1808 Richard Fell (1782-1845)
Jane Hull (1798-1842) married on 18 September 1823 John Fell (1786-1865)

Children of Samuel Hull (1764-1819) and Felicity his wife:
Elizabeth Dymond Hull (1790-1819)
Thomas Hull VII (1791-1819)

Children of Samuel Hull (1764-1819) and Ann Fowler his wife:
Catherine (1797-1798). Died as an infant.
Samuel Hull II (1797-1880)
John Fowler Hull (1800-1825)

Children of William Hull (1768-1840) and Jenny his wife:
John Hull (1795-1850) married Mary Rutter and went to Cheltenham
Mary Hull (1797-1834)
Rebecca Hull (1798-?) married 1822 John Fowler
Anna Hull (1800-?)
Henry Hull I (1805-1849) married in 1835 Jane Edmonds
Eliza Hul (1807-1841)
Edward Hull (1809-1843)
William Hull II (1814-1855) married in 1851 Anna Wagstaff (1821-1890) of New York.

Generation Six
Children of Mary Hull (1787-1846), daughter of John Hull (1755-1816) and Richard Fell (1782-1845):
Three sons. One died in infancy.
One son was called John Hull Fell (1810-1854) married Elizabeth and had one son Richard. All three died within a few days of each other in Forfar, in 1854.
Anna Hull Fell (1809-1839) married in 1835 Henry Pease from Darlington, later an MP.

Children of Rebecca Hull (1798-?), daughter of William Hull (1768-1840) and John Fowler:
John Fowler (1826-1864) who married Elizabeth Pease of Darlington.

Children of Henry Hull I (1805-1849), son of William Hull (1768-1840) and Jane his wife:
Elizabeth Jane (1836-1909) married in 1861 Henry Warner of Ratcliff
Thomas Hull (1838-?) went to Cirencester
William Hull (1840-?) married ? in 186?
Edmund Hull ?
Anna Hull (1841-?)
Rebecca Hull (1843-1877) married 1873 Alfred Neild
Henry Hull (1845-1881)
Mary Hull (1846-?)
Catherine Isabella Hull (1847-?)
John Hull (1849-?)

Children of William Hull I (1814-1855), son of William Hull (1768-1840) and Anna his wife:
William Hull III (1855-1927)
Samuel Hull (1855-1856)

Generation Seven
Children of Anna Hull Fell (1809-1839) and Henry Pease her husband:
Henry Fell Pease (1838-1896)

Children of John Hull Fell and his wife Elizabeth Bowes:
Richard, died 1854, a few days before his father and mother
Mary Jane Fell, Anna Fell and Charlotte Hull Fell


Individual entries
Elizabeth Jane Hull (latterly Elizabeth Warner)(1836-1909) daughter of Henry Hull (1805-1849) and Jane Edmonds(1808-1882), married in 1861 Henry Warner (1837-1896) of London, brassfounder. There were four sons and six daughters. Her daughter Elsie (b1873) married Philp Bastin as his second wife.

Henry Hull (1805-1849) mealman and banker, was the son of William Hull (b1768) and Jenny Warner. He entered the family corn milling business and was also active in the Uxbridge Old Bank, with his cousin, Samuel. He married in 1835 Jane Edmonds (1808-1882), daugher of Thomas Edmonds of High Wycombe. There were four sons, one of whom was born after his death, and five daughters.

John Hull (1755-1816)
was the eldest son of Thomas Hull and Mary Cockbolt. He entered and extended the corn milling business started by his father. He married Anna Ashby (1759-1843) daughter of Robert Ashby of Shillingford. There was one son and four daughters. He was much loved in Uxbridge, having been a leading light in the Auxiliary Bible Society, having started many schools for industry and the poor, and having many friends in the Society of Friends.

Became president of the free school on the resignation of Thomas Clarke in 1812. Expressed his intention of willing the interest on £600 to the free school and the girls school, and although he did not incorporate this into his will, his widow saw that it was made good. Founded a school in Aylesbury on the Lancasterian model. He was regarded as the father of the auxiliary Bible Society in Uxbridge, formed in 1811. All the local churches participated in this and they were proud to say that none was excluded, and none excluded itself.

Visited Burton with Henry Hull from the US in 1811, to stay at John Yeardleys.

Thomas Scattergood's journal mentions going to Uxbridge to stay with his friend John Hull. The Hulls were also friendly with Elizabeth Fry and her family.

He died in Uxbridge in 1816, and he was eulogised in the 1818 Redford and Riches History of Uxbridge.

John Hull (1795-1850) mealman, corn merchant was born in Uxbridge, son of William Hull (1768-1840) and Jenny Warner, daughter of Tomson Warner (1738-1816). He was described as a coal merchant in 1837. He married Mary Rutter, daughter of Joseph Rutter of Tottenham. There were no children but he wrote several improving pamphlets including: The philanthropic repertory of plans and suggestions for improving the conditions of the labouring poor (1835). He died in Cheltenham.

John Fowler Hull (1800-1825) son of Samuel Hull (1764-1819) and Ann Fowler (1760-1808) seems to have been a most remarkable person. Unlike all his relatives, he didn't go into the milling business or the bank, but studied languages. In the long and very reverent obituary which appeared in the Orientalist, T. Grimes from Coclchester, a long-time friend of John Fowler Hull, says that while still at school he caught the bug of learning languages and used to get up at three or four o'clock in the morning to study.

When he had finished school at the Quaker school in Epping, he was at a loss to know what to do. Sadly, he lost his elder siblings and father in a very short space of time, and so came into a considerable amount of money, which he then decided to use in the pursuit of his love of languages.

He learned 30 languages, including many more obscure ones (for an Englishman of his age) like Bengali, Sanskrit, Malayan, Coptic, Ethiopian, and he corresponded in Latin with his friends. Between 1820 and 1822 he divided his time between Uxbridge and Paris, where he had a number of language tutors. He had the money to travel widely, and he did so, collecting manuscripts and books as he travelled, many of whic he bequeathed to the British Museum. He died in India, on one of his travels to learn languages, and Mr Grimes doesn't seem able to praise the character and the charm of this man highly enough. "However great his atainments in learning were, they were equalled, if not excelled, by a uniformly kind, amiable, and unassuming idsosition, perhaps never surpassed by any other individual. His company was enlivening by a ready and playful wit. His generosity was unlimitedl and being in the enjoyment of a considerable income, he was able to dispense in his bounty with a liberal hand. Few applications were ever made to him on behalf of the indigent, the unfortunate or the deserving without succuss. The poor in his neighbourhood have cause long to remember him, while many charitable institutions have not escaped his notice and liberality...."

Mary Hull (latterly Mary Fell) (b1788)
daughter of John Hull (b1755) and Anna Ashby, married Richard Fell in 1808, of Uxbridge, flour factor. She went travelling in the ministry. She had two surviving children, John Hull Fell and Anna Hull Fell, who married Henry Pease, brother of the first Quaker MP in 1835. Mary's grandson, Henry Fell Pease (1838-1896) became the Mayor of Darlington and a benefactor of Uxbridge Boys School.


Rebecca Hull (latterly Rebecca Fowler) (1798-1842)
daughter of William Hull (1768-1840) married John Fowler in 1822, of Melksham, wine Merchant. Her son John Fowler was an inventor and engineer (shown left)who tried to help the Irish during the potato famine, by developing a plough which could drain land for cutivation.

He married Elizabeth Pease of Darlington, daughter of the first Quaker MP, Joseph Pease. The link between the Hulls and Elizabeth Fry was through John Fowler, whose mother-in-law, nee Emma Gurney, was Elizabeth Fry's cousin. There was another connection through the Pease family, because Joseph Pease's neice married a Fry.

The links betwen the Hull, Fowler, Fell, Pease and Gurney family are so many and numerous that many people appear in the family tree more than once, marrying into the connected family in their own right, and having brothers or sisters who also married into the family. As Quakers were only supposed to marry Quakers until 1860, it is hardly surprising that there were multiple connections between the same group of families.

Samuel Hull (1764-1819)
was the son of Thomas Hull and Mary Cockbolt. With his brothers he went into the corn milling business which was started by his father. He married Fidelity Stark (1769-1792) daughter of Thomas Stark of Fordingbridge. There was one son and one daughter. He married secondly Ann Fowler (1760-1808) daughter of Thomas Fowler of Melksham mercer and clothier. The family lived at Dragonfield, which was later the home of Cecil Sharp.

Samuel Hull (1798-1880) banker, was son of Samuel Hull (b.1764) and Ann Fowler. About 1820 the Uxbridge bank which had been in the Mercer and Norton Families was transferred to the Hulls and the Smiths, another Quaker milling family in the town.

Thomas Hull (1724-1797) mealman, came from Rickmansworth. He was the son of Thomas Hull and Jane Hull. He had a brother, John Hull (1727-1789) who married Rebecca Goring
(1730-1787). As far as we know this John had no children.

In 1750 Thomas (b1724) married Mary Cockbolt, daughter of John Cockbolt of Uxbridge and Mary Cockbolt. They had a big family, six sons (one who died young) and two daughters. He came to Uxbridge with a wife and sons, and a letter of recommendation from Rickmansworth Meeting. He settled in Uxbridge as a mealman and corn miller after he got married and he was there when he died in 1797.

In 1788-9 when the town failed to raise the money for a plan to widen the high street, demolish the then market house and erect a new one, he lent the town £2000: "for the purpose of pulling down the market house and certain other buildings, widening the road and rebuilding the market house". That market house is the one which stands in the centre of Uxbridge today.

William Hull (1768-1840)
youngest son of the above Thomas Hull and Mary Cockbolt.

He was a mealman like his father, and with his brothers entered the corn milling business started by his father.

Married Jenny Warner in 1794, daughter of Tomson Warner (1738-1816) of London. He was living at Uxbridge at the time of his death in 1840

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Thomas Livings, Mealman, 17th century member of meeting

John Loake, donated £1 for the building of the first meeting house.

Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971)
Crystallographer, established the structure of benzene by x-ray and neutron diffraction methods in 1929, and hexachlorobenzene by fourier spectral methods in 1931. During her career she was the first woman elected a fellow of the royal society, the first woman given tenure at University College London, the first woman president of the International Union of Crystalloraphy and the first woman president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

She was born in Ireland, moved to England and for a time studied at Ilford County High School for Boys to sudy mathematics and science because the girls school did not offer these subjects. She obtained her Bsc at Bedford College in 1922, and graduated wih an Msc in physics from University College in 1924. She then joined the Royal Institution.

She married Thomas Jackson Lonsdale in 1927 and had three children. Though she had been brought up as a Baptist, she became a Quaker in 1935, with her husband.

She served a month in Holloway prison during the Second World War because she refused to register for civil defence duties or pay a fine for refusing to register.

After leaving prison Kathleen made suggestions to the Governor for prison improvements. Many of her suggestions were implemented and Kathleen later became a prison Visitor. She was also a tireless campaigner in the cause of international peace.

At the Britain Yearly meeting in 1953 she delivered the Swarthmore Lecture: Removing the causes of war.

On their return to London, the Londsdales began to go to the Uxbridge Meeting.

Thomas Lovett, donated fifteen shillings towards the building of the first meeting house.

Mathew Martin, of IVer, yeoman, mentioned on the 1692 indenture

Mivchael MArlyn, paid £5 towards the building of the first meeting house.

Phillip May, donated £1 towards the building of the first meeting house.

Ralph Nicolas, tenant of one of the Lynch cottages mentioned in the 1692 indenture for the land.

Richard Newsomb, donated one pound one shilling and sixpence towards the building of the first meeting house.Elizabeth Perk, tenant of the Catherine Wheel cottages as mentioned in the 1692 indenture.

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William Penn (1644-1718)
William Penn was the son of Admiral Sir William Penn, who served in the Navy under Cromwell, and was frequently mentioned in Samuel Pepys diaries.

William Penn Jr became a Quaker at the age of 22, and was a close friend of George Fox, the founder of the Quakers. Penn quickly came into conflict with the authorities, being imprisoned for the writing of a tract. His writing is his enduring legacy today, and many people find his gentle and poetic style of writing is much more accessible than that of his contemporaries.

He was expelled from his Oxford college for being a Quaker, and was arrested several times. On one occasion after an arrest for preaching in Gracechurch Street, he was found not guilty of the offence even after the judge had put extreme pressure on the jury, but was then rearrested along with the whole of the jury. This case established the right of juries to be free from the control of judges.

There is a widely told story that one time when Fox and Penn met, Penn expressed concern over wearing a sword (a standard part of dress for people of Penn's station), and how this was not in keeping with Quaker beliefs. George Fox responded, "Wear it as long as thou canst."(Meaning, that as long as it didn't conflict with his inner beliefs, it was right to wear it.)

Later, according to the story, Penn again met Fox, but this time without the sword; Penn said, "I have taken thy advice; I wore it as long as I could”.

Penn knew Quakers who had emigrated from Hertfordshire to America and helped to draw up a charter of libertiesfor their settlement in Burlington. He guaranteed a free and fair trial by jury, freedom of religion and freedom from unjust imprisonment and free elections... and one can see why he might!

King Charless II owed Admiral Penn money and settled the debt on his death by granting Penn Jr a large area west and south of New Jersey. Penn called it Sylvania, but Charles changed it to Pennsylania in honour of Admiral Penn. This colony offered true freedom of religion, which wasn't the case elsewhere in the American colonies, where Quakers were persecuted and even executed for their faith.

Penn didn't force a Quaker majority on Pennsylvania, and he didn't simply accept the land from the King, but paid them for their lands and learned several native languages in order to negotiate a treaty with the Native Americans. He introduced laws which said that if a European settler did wrong towards a Native American, there would be a fair trial. The treaty between Penn and the Native Americans was the first which bound the old world and the new together. It was made without swearing, and it was never broken.

Penn did not emigrate finally to the colony, he made a last visit there in 1699, and put forward a plan to make a federation of all English colonies in America, but was forced back to England in 1701, because his financial advisor had cheated him out of thousands of pounds.

Penn didn't make a profit from his work in marketing and establishing the colony of Pennsylvania and was imprisoned for debt and penniless at the time of his death in 1718, although his family retained ownership of the colony of Pennsylvania until the time of the American revolution.

Leonard Pitcher of Twitenham co. Midd. yeoman and his wife, convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II.

Noah Pitcher, donated £1 for the building of the first meeting house.

Thomas Pocock of Thistleworth co. Midd. yeoman and his wife, convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II.

James Polter of Harmonsworth co. Midd convicted of attendance at an unlawful conventicle at Uxbridge 35 Charles II.