Free online event: The story of Rathangan s Quaker community revealed
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A unique free online seminar, which traces the story of Rathangan s Quaker community from 1692 to 1928, takes place on February 20 at 10am.
Local historian, Laurence Fullam has been researching the project. The Religious Society of Friends - Quakers - were meticulous record-keepers. Working through existing records we can trace their presence in the Rathangan area from the birth of William Sheldon (son of Elizar Sheldon and Susanna Edmundson) in 1692 to the departure of Sidney G Nicholson for Dublin in 1928, he said. Meetings recorded births, deaths and marriages, as well as the names of those disowned from the unity of the society . Records of Sufferings detail the value of goods seized from individual Quakers by tithe-mongers because their refusals to pay tithes to the established Church.