(Ho fee an& Queriee KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS D —Friends' Reference Library, Devonshire House, 136, Bishopsgate, London, E.G. Camb. Jnl.—The Journal of George Fox, published by the Cambridge University Press, 1911. D.N.B.—The Dictionary of National Biography. F.Q.E.—Friends' Quarterly Examiner. THE BUXTON FAMILY AND death at Great Berkhampstead, QUAKER MEMBERSHIP (xiii. 84).— 1784. xii. 22, of SARAH, daughter With the kind assistance of Sir of T. F. and Anna Buxton, aged Alfred Pease, and after search two years and one month. Anna's made in the Friends' Registers of birth was registered in Devonshire London, Essex, and Norfolk, we House M.M., the place of birth are able to present the following being Norfolk Street, Strand. facts : Another daughter of T. F. and ISAAC BUXTON (1734-1782) A. Buxton, SARAH (MARIA), was married Sarah Fowell (1735-1814). born in 1789, at Mortimer Street, Apparently neither was in mem­ Marylebone and registered in bership. Devonshire House M.M. She THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON (i.) was the companion of Anna (1756-1793), son of the above, Gurney, at Northrepps, Cromer, of Earls Colne, Essex, married, in d. 1839. 1782, Anna Hanbury (1762-1828), THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON (ii.), daughter of Osgood Hanbury, of first baronet (1786-1845), was son Essex. He was a Churchman, of T. F. and Anna Buxton, who, and she a Friend. Mrs. Buxton at the time of his birth, were married, secondly, in 1806, residing at Castle Hedingham, Edmond Henning, and removed Essex (Life, 1840). The Life to Weymouth. states that be and his brothers ANNA Buxton, daughter of the were baptized in infancy. He above, was born in 1784. She married Hannah Gurney, at the married, in 1816, William Forster, Friends Meeting House, Tasburgh, (1784-1854). In the Testimony Norfolk, in 1807. He was buried respecting her, issued in 1856, it in the churchyard at Overstrand. is said : " Her father was not a "j.he birtn of Sir Fowell Buxton's member of the Society of Friends, daughter, PRISCILLA, which took but her mother having been place at Earlham, Norfolk, in 1808, allowed to retain her membership is recorded in Devonshire House on her marriage, their elder M.M. She married Andrew children, under the then-existing Johnston, in 1834. Her printed rules, inherited a birthright in Journal (1862) ^tates that she was the Society." It is not evident baptized in 1823. who \rere the " elder children, 11 The births of the sons of Sir —the Essex Registers record the Thomas Fowell Buxton, THOMAS 165 i66 NOTES AND QUERIES FOWELL in 1821 and CHARLES in SIBEL PENN (xi. 46).—The 1822, both at Cromer, are recorded question asked in 1914 has now in Norwich M.M., but the entries received an answer in an article end with the letters N.M. (non- by S. D. Clippingdale, M.D., member). A daughter, SUSANNAH in Nursing Notes for September, MARIA, died in 1811, within entitled " Mother Jak, Nurse to Ratcliff M.M. London. King Edward VI." The doctor From the above it would appear writes : (quoting Notes and that no one, of mature age, who Queries, series v., vol. i.j retained through life the name of " Her father was William Buxton, retained also membership Hampden, Esq., of Kimble, in the in the Society of Friends. county of Bucks, and her husband was David Penn, Esq., Lord of the Of earlier Buxtons, the following Manor of Penn in the same county. entries appear in the Friends' She had two sons : (i) John, Register > for Norfolk and Is orwich: who became ancestor of the Susanna Buxton, daughter of Roper-Penn fami y now merged Thomas and Susanna, of Norwich, in the peerage of Scarsdale, and was born 1680. x. 15, and died (2) William who went as a monk 1682. viii. 29. to Glastonbury Abbey. At the Elizabeth Buxton, of Norwich, Reformation, however, he left daughter of Bartholomew Buxton, the Abbey, married, and became of Moulton, married Samuel direct ancestor of William Penn, Langwade, of Norwich, 1712. x. 9. founder of Pennsylvania." The Thomns Buxton, of Norwich " lines of laudatory epitaph " M.M., died 1716. iii. 29, aged 78, referred to in vol. xi. 46 are printed and Susanna died 1720. iii. 7, in Nursing Notes, where are also aged 82. other data respecting the nurse of Ann, widow of Bartholomew, Prince Edward. The date of her was buried at Tivetshall, 1727. death is given 1552, by some viii. 26. writers, and 1562 by others. Dorcas Buxton, of Norwich [J. Henry Lea, of Fairhaven, M.M., died 1723. Mass., in the Pennsylvania Maga­ Bartholomew Buxton Blake, zine, of April, 1890, regards this worsted weaver of Norwich, died statement of William Penn's 1779, aged 55. ancestry as " an untrustworthy tradition " and gives his reasons PEACHY, OF SUFFOLK AND for this conclusion. See his CAMBS.—Information respecting Genealogical Gleanings contributory this early Quaker family has been to a History of the Family of placed in D. through the kindness Penn.—ED.] of Dr. George C. Peachy, now of Bromley-by-Bow. BUGG OF MILDENHALL.—By the Information desired of any courtesy of Dr. George C. Peachy, social disabilities suffered by we are able to print the following early Friends in consequence of extract from the Burial Register the non-legality of their marriages. of Mildenhall church : NOTES AND QUERIES 167 1727. Oct. 22r . Mr. Francis PARISH REGISTERS OF KIRK- Bugg of West Row (Milden- BURTON, co. YORK, edited by hall). F. A. Collins, vol. i., p. 230: From the Register of Burials in 1639 Dec. 29. Jarvis son of Woollen, Mildenhall: Henry Kaye baptd. 1727. Oct. i 1 . Francis Bugg, Note.—It will be this Jarvis Senr aged 862. Kay [Key] who thirty-five years 1739/40. Jan. 5. Mr. Francis afterwards, in 1675, was perse­ Bugg, Quaker. cuted and imprisoned for holding [His wife, Elizabeth, was buried the faith of the Society of Friends. in the Friends' Burial Ground, His companions with him from 1733. iii. 14. He appears to have this parish were Michael Howgate been buried in the churchyard.] and John Marsh [Besse's Suffer­ ings, ii. 140]. In the appendix to volume ii. WILL OF HENRY PHILLIPS, will be found an account of the 1714.—Henry Phillips, of London, Brooke family, including John gent., (1640- ) to be buried in Brooke, a member of the " esti­ chancel of Aylesbury church—near mable Society of Friends " who to his late father, Henry Phillips. in 1699, with his wife and two sons Reference to Cousin Nathaniel James and Matthew, crossed the Meade3, of the Inner Temple, seas to America in the hope o London, Esq. Small legacies to finding freedom to worship God. Mr. Thomas Fell, attorney-at-law They sailed from Liverpool in and John Fell, called servant to the ship Britannia, Richard cousin Nathaniel Meade. Mention Nicholas, Commander, and pro­ of John Barnard, linen-draper, bably arrived in quarantine at living at the sign of the Ship in Gloucester, New Jersey, early in Fenchurch Street*, and his brother August 1699. A copy of John Thomas Barnard. Brooke's will is given together From George Lipscombe's with information concerning his History of Bucks, 1847, ii. 63, 64, family and descendants. copied by Albert Cook Myers. WILLIAM A. CAFFALL. f. These two entries are pro­ bably identical. The Burials in Woollen are inaccurate in many respects (G. C. P.). FELL VERSUS Fox.—The 2 This would appear to be the " Mother of the early Quaker noted Quaker apostate. His last Church " is referred to by some work against Quakerism—Strong writers as Margaret Fell and by Motives—was written " March 26, 1724, being in the 84th year of others as Margaret Fox, the former my age. Fran. Bugg." (Smith's ignoring the change of name on her Catalogue, i. 346.) marriage with George Fox in 1669, 3 Sir Nathaniel Meade (1684- the latter recognising this change. 1760), only child of William and Sarah (Fell) Meade. There are * This was the business and other Meades in the Aylesbury address of William Meade (1628- Registers. i68 NOTES AND QUERIES We venture to think that the latter 13 day of y« seaventh month Came are on firmer ground historically, the Constables to sumon vs to Goe and according to rule. before y* Justices Roger kirkby, There seems to have been no & willi kirkby, Marg' jfox difficulty among early Quaker daniell Abrahams & Rachell writers in accepting and using the his wife, & Leo : jfell, & Mary his new name, save an occasional wife to Appear before them ye slip as in a letter from Rebecca 17th day following vpon y* Account Travers written in 1673/4, which of y* Act for I2d a Sunday (note) begins " Dear jfreind M : jfox " here they prosecuted by two Acts and is addressed " To Margrett in one week:—And when wee jfell" (Swarth. MSS. i. 388). Appeared they Called Marg* jfox As a Friend she was seventeen for by that Name she was sumoned years Fell (1652-1669), and thirty willi Kirkby said vnto her Js not three years Fox (1669-1702). your Name Marg* jfell : she not Unfortunately her biography in Answered noe, That was D. N. B. is placed under Fell, her Name Now—he said you are on the contrary to the usage of that work, fined three shillings, And where e.g. Caroline Fry appears 5th day jfollowing they Changed under Wilson, Sarah Stickney her name in y6 Churchwardens Marg* under Ellis, etc. There is more note from Marg* jfox To Jssued excuse for Joseph Smith's Cata­ jfell: And y* same day to Levy y* fine logue to place her under Fell, out their warrant by y* name of as the great majority of her writ­ of three shillings And then sent her to ings were prior to her second Marg* jfell, prison at Lancastr with daniell marriage.