Transcribed by Caryl Parsons
A Register for Hawkchurch (Society of Friends)
Births 1648-1704 Deaths 1668-1698
Original document NQ1/A18 Dorset History Centre (previously DRO)
Contained in a small book:
Outside cover – Shaftesbury and Sherborne
Monthly Meeting
Address to Friends dated
Cerne 18 ye 4 mo 1659
Inside cover – John ?fudkin ?1614/1644
William ferris Born
about ye 9th of ye 4th Mo 1632
Mary d.o. James/Jane KENWAY 12.8.1648
James s.o. James/Jane KENWAY 16.7.1650
Mary d.o. Thomas/Mary ?BEAVELL 10.2.1651
Elizabeth d.o. William/Sarah WILKENS 5.5.1651
Sarah d.o. William/Sarah WILKENS 10.10.1652
Elizabeth d.o. Thomas/Mary BEAVELL 19.12.1652/3
William s.o. James/Jane KENWAY 14.12.1653
Hanah d.o. Thomas/Mary BEAVEL 10.9.1654
Elizabeth d.o. James/Jane KENWAY 23.3.1655
Symon s.o. Thomas/Mary BEAVEL 30.7.1656
Samuell s.o. James/Jane KENWAY 21.5.1657
William s.o. William/Sarah WILKENS 28.6.1657
Samuell s.o. Thomas/Mary BEAVEL 22.8.1658
Mary d.o. John/Mary GILLETT 25.6.1659
Sarah d.o. John/Mary GILLETT 9.11.1660
Elizabeth d.o. Richard/Elizabeth NEWBERRY 19.2.1661
Rachell d.o. Thomas/Mary BEAVEL 7.3.1661
Thomas s.o. James/Jane KENWAY 15.4.1661
Martha d.o. William/Sarah WILKENS 15.1.1663
Richard s.o. Richard/Elizabeth NEWBERRY 20.6.1663
Sarah d.o. Thomas/Mary BEAVEL 30.8.1663
Joseph s.o. James/Jane KENWAY 10.9.1663
Rachell d.o. John/Mary GILLETT 18.9.1663
Robert s.o. Richard/Elizabeth NEWBERRY 29.6.1665
Hanah d.o. John/Mary GILLETT 23.11.1665
Hanah d.o. Richard/Elizabeth NEWBERRY 16.8.1667
Martha d.o. John/Mary GILLETT 20.9.1667
Ruth d.o. John/Mary GILLETT 31.10.1669
[Next date given]
Jane d.o. Thomas/Elinor KENWAY 8.2.1685
James s.o. William/Sarah KENWAY 3.4.1685
Joseph s.o. Thomas/Elinor KENWAY 6.11.1686
Joseph s.o. Joseph/Elinor GILLETT 5.5.1688
Hanah d.o. Thomas/Elinor KENWAY 1.1.1688/9
Elinor d.o. Joseph/Elinor GILLETT 21.12.1689
James s.o. Thomas/Ellinor KENWAY 19.2.1691
Richard s.o. Joseph/Ellinor GILLETT 4.6.1691
Mary d.o. Joseph/Ellinor GILLETT 28.12.1692
Ellinor d.o. Thomas/Ellinor KENWAY 15.2.1693
Rachel d.o. Thomas/Ellinor KENWAY 21.3.1695
Martha d.o. Joseph/Ellinor GILLETT 10.7.1695
John s.o. Joseph/Ellenor GILLETT 11.1.1700
Sarah d.o. Joseph/Ellenor GILLETT 22.12.1704
‘Grace FERRIS wife of Wm. FERRIS dyed’ 5.6.1668 ‘and was buryed in friends buryeing ground at Membury’ 9.6.1668
Ann d.o. John GILLETT deceased 12.12.1671
John GILLETT deceased 10.1.1672
Joan WILKINS deceased 23.6.1675
Ann CALLAWAY deceased 22.10.1675
Ruth d.o. John/Mary GILLETT dyed 1.6.1683
James KENWAY of Hawkchurch dyed 15.8.1688
William FERRIS of Hawkchurch dyed 20.6.1696
Thomas KENWAY of Hawkchurch dyed 7.3.1696
Jane widow of Thomas KENWAY of Hawkchurch dyed 5.6.1698
Book also contains ‘Address to friends dated Cerne 18 ye 4 mo 1659’ and list of names ‘ffrom a generall meeting att Cerne in Dorset ? the 18th of the 6th month 1659’.