tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post2568597267310664576..comments2023-09-12T13:43:10.386+00:00Comments on Stumbling blocks to stepping stones: Quaker Alphabet Blog Week 18 - I for Isaac CrewdsonGil Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-23450417759369932372017-01-09T12:30:46.139+00:002017-01-09T12:30:46.139+00:00This blog entry made a strong impact with me, and ...This blog entry made a strong impact with me, and it's very helpful to my current project. (An e-book on marriage and Quakers.) I was stewarding at the Tapestry Museum in the autumn of 2016, where i first read of the devastating effect the controversy had on Kendal Quakers. I'm glad of your figures for the number who split off with Isaac Crewdson - they are higher than figures on Wikipedia and seem much more accurate.<br /><br />What a turbulent time for Quakers the 19th century proved to be - people rushing to polar extremes! Well done.<br /><br />In love and peace, Patrick Bealey, Castle Douglas MeetingPatrick Bealeyhttp://timelywords.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15744935.post-28854966707199152692014-08-30T23:29:51.233+00:002014-08-30T23:29:51.233+00:00Isaac and Elizabeth were 4xGt Grandparents of mine...Isaac and Elizabeth were 4xGt Grandparents of mine. Their daughter Mary (not Margaret) married Henry Waterhouse. My family owns the portrait in oils from which the print of Isaac was, I think, taken. (the high forehead of a colour reminiscent of cooked pastry gives him his family nickname - Pieface!)<br /><br />Have you seen the contemporary account of the controversy called The Crisis of the Quaker Contest in Manchester (written from a Beaconite perspective)? It was a odd feeling when I read for the first time the texts of the resignation letters, printed as an appendix to that volume, including those of Isaac, Elizabeth and Henry and Mary Waterhouse. I thought - this is why we are not Quakers.<br /><br />An interesting account, thank you.<br />Hugh Waterhouse (Sheffield, UK)quellecosebellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18044587145578333115noreply@blogger.com