Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Though his mother was an American Quaker and he attended some meetings, he was baptized and primarily raised an Anglican. [359] Maria Mitchell (1818–1889), an Australian, one of the first women in astronomy, who retained ties to the Quakers but became a Unitarian [360] Russ Nelson (b. 1958), American open-source software developer [361]
The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally. Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends , or else be composed of the personal names occurring most often within the total population .
Pages in category "18th-century Quakers" The following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Elizabeth ...
This category is for masculine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language masculine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
Given names which have been used by individuals (historical and fictitious). Use template {{ Given name }} to populate this category. (However, do not use the template on disambiguation pages that contain a list of people by given name.)
In many Quaker communities children address adults by either their first names, or first and last names but with no title, and in many Quaker schools teachers are called by their first names as well. It is conventional for Friends who do not know each other well, who in non-Quaker circles would address each other with a title, to use first name ...
According to Fox's autobiography, Bennet "was the first that called us Quakers, because I bade them tremble at the word of the Lord". [29]: 125 It is thought that Fox was referring to Isaiah 66:2 or Ezra 9:4. Thus the name Quaker began as a way of ridiculing Fox's admonition, but became widely accepted and used by some Quakers. [33]
First among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism. (1994). 407 pp. Ingle, H. Larry. Nixon's First Cover-up: The Religious Life of a Quaker President. (2015). 272 pp. James, Sydney. A People among Peoples: Quaker Benevolence in Eighteenth-Century America (1963), a broad ranging study that remains the best history in America before 1800.