. . . . 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 8th 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 10th of fourth month 1826 aged 60.
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