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- I've got Joseph's details from looking at the actual record via BMD Registers - the other children are on the search result with these parents, but I've not paid to see the actual records
Birth recorded at Peel Meeting
The first Stoke Newington Quaker meeting
In 1698, it was proposed to hold a meeting for worship once a month in Stoke Newington. Local meetings for worship were under the care of a monthly meeting for business: Stoke Newington came in the territory of the Peel Monthly Meeting, based at the Peel meeting house in St John’s Lane, Clerkenwell (named after the sign of a baker’s “peel”, the shovel for handling loaves in an oven). The body responsible for London Quaker property, the Six Weeks Meeting, approved this, initially with the option left open whether to take two rooms or a barn; it was decided to hold a meeting for worship fortnightly, alternating with another meeting being established in Tottenham. [Six Weeks Meeting vol.3 p.330 (25 8mo. 1698), p.344 (6 10mo. 1698)]
The two rooms taken for the “Newington” meeting were at the premises of Robert Walburton, a gardener. [Beck, William, and Ball, T. Frederick, The London Friends’ Meetings: showing the rise of the Society of Friends in London, F. Bowyer Kitto, 1869 p.211-12, quoting the registration at Middlesex Sessions as a place of worship] In a posthumous pamphlet, William Beck, a Stoke Newington man, calls this “a rambling old structure” on the site of the Clarence Tavern (now the Daniel Defoe pub) [Beck, William, A description of Church Street, Stoke Newington, with unsigned introduction dated 1927, Clapham: Edgar Publishing, n.d., p.12] A drawing of the building dated 1825 appears in a book held at Hackney Archives about Mary Lister’s invalid asylum that was initially housed there [Isabella Prideaux Moline, A Short History of the Home Hospital for Women (Invalid Asylum) , 1916]. It seems unlikely that the look of the building changed much during the intervening eighteenth century.
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