| Description | Chadwick Monthly Meeting consisted of the Preparative Meetings at Stourbridge, Dudley, Bewdley and Bromsgrove, and fell under Worcestershire Quarterly Meeting (later Worcestershire and Herefordshire Quarterly Meeting and Worcestershire and Shropshire Quarterly Meeting). There is no reference in the Monthly Meeting minutes to Monthly Meetings being held at Chadwick (an area near the Wasley Hills and Catshill, outside Bromsgrove) and instead meetings were held at Stourbridge, Dudley, Bewdley and Bromsgrove meeting houses in turn. In January 1812 it united with the Monthly Meetings at Worcester and Evesham to form Worcester Monthly Meeting. This was followed in 1819 by the transfer of Dudley and Stourbridge Preparative Meetings from Worcestershire Monthly Meeting to Warwickshire North Monthly Meeting. Members of this meeting included, among others, members of the Sankey, Darby, Payton, Cotterill, Brettell, Mucklow, Bradley, Freeth, Fowler, Pumphrey, Beavington and Coudry families.
See the relevant sections in SF/3 for further information about each Preparative Meeting for which we hold records (records for some meetings have not survived but there are usually references to them in the Quarterly (SF/1) and Monthly Meeting (SF/2) minutes.
See SF/2/1/1/9/3/1/1 List of notices of intention to marriage on the minute books of North Warwickshire, Middle Warwickshire & Chaddsley Monthly Meetings, retrospectively listed 1887, 1693 - 1800 |