– Important note for paid QFHS members – do we have your latest email?
– Have you seen all the videos and playlists on our You Tube channel? QFHS You Tube videos and playlists
The QFHS 2025 AGM Wednesday was held on the 18th June
via Zoom following talk by Guest Speaker Nick Barratt “AI and Family History”
View the Draft AGM minutes (will download to your device) HERE
Please see Notification of the 2026 AGM on the 17th June below
Next:
Before looking at our up and coming events, are YOU working on something of interest to our members
but need some financial support to get it completed?
If so please consider applying for our Margaret Bennett small research award
Click here for full details
Next Family History Shows we are attending
QFHS will have a stall at each of the following,so please come and say hello if you are attending:-
18th April East Anglia Really useful Family History show, Burgess Hall, Westwood Hall, St Ives, Cambridgeshire PE27 6WU Entry and parking is free at the East Anglia show.
Next Zoom meetings
15 April Bill Greenwell, speaking about ‘Sunderland in 1831’
17th June The QFHS 2026 AGM Wednesday -7:00 pm BST (via Zoom)
Click here for the 2025 AGM minutes
(will download onto your device)
19 August Margaret Roberts, on the Forgotten Women project with
The Mount School, York
(to be confirmed)
Next In Person Meeting
16th May 2026 – Our first chance to return to meeting together again, as of old, hurrah!
It has been a long time coming so don't miss this one!
All day Spring in person Meeting at Sibford Ferris,Oxfordshire an extensive programme has bee developed
to include a talk by Tim Marshall on Quaker clockmakers. Further details below.
QFHS Spring Meeting
Sibford, Oxfordshire
The Quaker Family History Society Spring Meeting returns as an in-person
event for the first time since Covid. We will be meeting at the Sibfords in
Oxfordshire, the twin villages of Sibford Ferris and Sibford Gower, on Saturday
16th May 2026.
We shall be spending the morning at Sibford School in Sibford Ferris and the
afternoon at Sibford Meeting House in Sibford Gower. There will be an optional
guided walk to take us from one place to another to see other points of interest
in the picturesque villages.
The earliest Quakers in the villages were organised and established by 1669
and they met in the house of clockmaker Thomas Gilkes. A decade later, a
purpose-built meeting house was constructed and the current meeting house
dates from 1865.
In 1842, Sibford School was founded for the education of the children of
'disowned' Quakers who were not in unity, as their children were barred from
going to Ackworth School. Later, children from practising Quaker families could
also attend.
At our QFHS Spring Meeting, we will have talks at both the school and the
meeting house on a variety of topics. These will include both Quaker-centred
topics and also connected themes.
Our late member Michael Hargreave, who died in 2025, was from the Sibfords
and this QFHS Spring Meeting is dedicated to his passion for family history
and his memory. We would be very happy for you to join us.
Tickets will be £15. To book your place and receive further details, please
contact Jon Wicken on jonwicken@yahoo.co.uk or phone 07941 979630.