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vocabulary Query (publishing), document(s) sent to literary agents in a standardised format by authors requesting representation Query (Quaker), a question
Query
Quakers use the term Query to refer to a question or series of questions used for reflection and in spiritual exercises. Friends have used Queries as tools
Query_(Quaker)
Church manual
for Sufferings Query (Quaker) Recorded Minister The Testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends Alastair Heron "The British Quakers 1647–1997" Curlew
Book_of_Discipline_(Quaker)
Christian religious movement
Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, originally known as simply the Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian
Quakers
Ulverston. Members are informally known as Quakers, as they were said "to tremble in the way of the Lord. The Quakers, especially the Valiant Sixty, sought
History_of_the_Quakers
Religious demographic
Quakers (or Friends) are members of a Christian religious movement that started in England as a form of Protestantism in the 17th century. It has spread
Quakers_in_North_America
Embroidery depicting the history of Quakerism
(D6) Railways (D7) Quaker Botanists (D8) Quaker Doctors (D9) Quaker Scientists (D10) Industrial Welfare (D11) Query 19 (D12) Scott Bader Commonwealth (D13)
Quaker_Tapestry
organizations or charities founded by Quakers. Many of these are no longer managed or influenced by Quakers. At the end of the article are businesses
List of Quaker businesses, organizations and charities
List_of_Quaker_businesses,_organizations_and_charities
Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers. Friends schools vary greatly, both in their interpretation of Quaker principles and in how they relate to
List_of_Friends_schools
Marriage ceremony of the Religious Society of Friends
Quaker weddings are conducted in a similar fashion to regular Quaker meetings for worship, primarily in silence and without an officiant, as Quakers do
Quaker_wedding
Evangelical branch of Quakers
Society of Friends, or Quakers. The name originates from sympathy with the ideas of Joseph John Gurney (1788-1847), an English Quaker minister. Gurneyites
Gurneyites
early members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in England. He wrote about the Quaker movement and was an influential promoter and defender
Isaac_Penington_(Quaker)
English founder of Quakers (1624–1691)
was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social
George_Fox
There are about 180,000 members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, in Africa. African Friends make up around 49% of Friends internationally
Quakers_in_Africa
American minister (1645–1717)
Mary Coffin Starbuck (February 20, 1645 – late 1717) was a Quaker leader from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She and her husband, Nathaniel Starbuck, were
Mary_Coffin_Starbuck
Religious movement in Europe
The Quaker movement began in England in the 17th century. Small Quaker groups were planted in various places across Europe during this early period (For
Quakers_in_Europe
Quaker religious concept
(Colossians 1:23)." Britain Yearly Meeting (1994). "Quaker Faith and Practice (Third edition) – Advices and Queries". Britain Yearly Meeting. Archived from the
Inward_light
Subset of Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
are members of the Wilburite branch of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). In the United States, Conservative Friends belong to three Yearly Meetings:
Conservative_Friends
their approval of a minute, they will sometimes say "hope so". In some Quaker groups, there may be more than one person performing clerking roles, for
Clerk_(Quaker)
English writer and religious thinker (1644–1718)
In 1668, in a letter to the anti-Quaker minister Jonathan Clapham, Penn wrote: "Thou must not, reader, from my querying thus, conclude we do deny (as he
William_Penn
English Quaker preacher
Humphrey Smith (died 1663) was an English Quaker preacher. Smith probably lived in Little Cowarne, Herefordshire and preached in Andover, Hampshire. He
Humphrey_Smith_(Quaker)
Group of Evangelical Quaker meetings
Friends Church International (EFCI) is a branch of the Society of Friends (Quaker) yearly meetings (regional associations) located around the world. The EFCI
Evangelical Friends Church International
Evangelical_Friends_Church_International
Latin America contains approximately 14% of the world's Quakers. Latin American Friends are concentrated in Bolivia and Central America. Most of these
Quakers_in_Latin_America
Aspect of Quakerism
Quaker views on women have always been considered progressive in their own time (beginning in the 17th century), and in the late 19th century this tendency
Quaker_views_on_women
members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) for peace and against participation in war. Like other Quaker testimonies, it is not a "belief", but a
Testimony_of_peace
American Quaker preacher (1748–1830)
Elias Hicks (March 19, 1748 – February 27, 1830) was a traveling Quaker minister from Long Island, New York. In his ministry he promoted doctrines deemed
Elias_Hicks
Behavioural practice of Quakers
generally taken by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Friends or Quakers) to testify or bear witness to their beliefs that a person ought to live
Testimony_of_simplicity
Regional associations of Quaker congregations that meet annually
constituent meetings or churches of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, within a geographical area. The constituent meetings are called Monthly
Yearly_Meeting
Annual Quaker event
Central Yearly Meeting of Friends is a yearly meeting of Friends (Quaker) churches located in Indiana, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Ohio. Central Yearly
Central Yearly Meeting of Friends
Central_Yearly_Meeting_of_Friends
Christian belief of interaction with God
in love through the eradication of original sin. In the Methodist, the Quaker and the Holiness Pentecostal traditions of Christianity, the second work
Second_work_of_grace
Britain (5th ed.). Quaker Books. pp. Advices and Queries: 42. ISBN 1907123555. "Welcome to Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA)". quaker-animals.co.uk. Retrieved
Testimony_of_equality
Christian process of achieving spiritual perfection
presence of Christian perfection within British Quakers is deeply embedded in their Advices and Queries Book of Discipline, which provide both spiritual
Christian_perfection
Behavioural code of Quakers
truth refers to the way many members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) testify or bear witness to their belief that one should live a life that
Testimony_of_integrity
Quaker minister (1754–1825)
Elizabeth (née Hosier) Coggeshall (March 4, 1770 — June 6, 1851) was a Quaker (Society of Friends) minister and missionary from Rhode Island who traveled
Elizabeth_Coggeshall
Quaker confession of faith
confession of faith of the Religious Society of Friends, being made by 95 Quakers (representatives of all Gurneyite Orthodox Friends Yearly Meetings) from
Richmond_Declaration
early members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). She wrote an autobiography On Quakers, Medicine, and Property, that was discovered and published
Mary_Penington
American poet and author (born 1962)
South African investigative magazine Noseweek. Ruden became an activist Quaker during her ten years spent in post-apartheid South Africa, where she was
Sarah_Ruden
Group decision-making aiming for universal agreement
Friends (Quakers) against the Vietnam War, Lawrence Scott started A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) in 1966 to try and encourage activism within the Quakers. By
Consensus_decision-making
British engraver and publisher (1800–1853)
was an English cartographer, engraver, printer and publisher. A devout Quaker, he developed Bradshaw's Guide, a widely sold series of combined railway
George_Bradshaw
Quaker minister (1754–1825)
Hannah Jenkins Barnard (1754 – 27 November 1825) was a Quaker (Society of Friends) minister from Dutchess County, New York. Early in her career, she was
Hannah_Jenkins_Barnard
Free online crowdsourced encyclopedia
by Quakers. A difference from Quaker meetings is the absence of a facilitator in the presence of disagreement, a role played by the clerk in Quaker meetings
Wikipedia
The history of Quakerism in Sichuan (or "West China") began in 1887 when missionaries began to arrive from the United Kingdom. Missionaries founded schools
Quakerism_in_Sichuan
Religious meeting hall in Adelaide, South Australia
The Adelaide meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends ("Quakers") is situated on Pennington Terrace, North Adelaide, South Australia, literally
Friends Meeting House, Adelaide
Friends_Meeting_House,_Adelaide
— Moby-Dick, Ch. 19 The principal owners of the Pequod, two well-to-do Quaker retired whaling captains. Both have names taken from the Bible: Peleg and
List_of_Moby-Dick_characters
Topics referred to by the same term
Queries per second, a measure of high-load servers' performance Queensland Police Service, Australia Quaker Peace and Service, former name of Quaker Peace
QPS
1656–1737) was an English Quaker pamphleteer born in Great Broughton, Cumberland. Having had "a godly education", she became a Quaker minister in about 1688
Jane_Fearon
Scotwriter (1420 3209
Robert Barclay (23 December 1648 – 3 October 1690) was a Scottish Quaker, one of the most eminent writers belonging to the Religious Society of Friends
Robert_Barclay
Reputed natural daughter of James II of England
Jane Stuart (c. 1654 – 1742), was a Quaker who lived and died in Wisbech, England. There is a long-standing tradition that she was a natural daughter of
Jane_Stuart_(Quaker)
Philippine racehorse (born 2009)
white star bred in Batangas, Philippines by Benhur Abalos. He was sired by Quaker Ridge out of the mare Fire Down Under, making him a half-brother to Ibarra
Hagdang_Bato
Christian movement
teachings are rooted in the theology of John Wesley, and a minority being Quakers (Friends) that emphasize the doctrine of George Fox, as well as River Brethren
Conservative holiness movement
Conservative_holiness_movement
American abolitionist and feminist (1805–1879)
her sister Sarah's support, Angelina adopted the tenets of the Quaker faith. The Quaker community was very small in Charleston, and she quickly set out
Angelina_Grimké
American writer
Bathsheba Bowers (June 4, 1671 – 1718) was an American Quaker author and preacher. Her only surviving work is the spiritual autobiography An Alarm Sounded
Bathsheba_Bowers
English Quaker and writer, c. 1621–1688
William Dewsbury (c. 1621–1688) was an English Quaker minister and religious writer in the early period of the movement. He was born in Allerthorpe, Yorkshire
William_Dewsbury
17th-century English political activist
early life he was a Puritan, though towards the end of his life he became a Quaker. His works have been cited in opinions by the United States Supreme Court
John_Lilburne
Most populous city in Pennsylvania, US
and music. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker and advocate of religious freedom, and served as the capital of the colonial
Philadelphia
Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1721 to 1742
House, Twickenham, Serjeant-at-Arms in the House of Commons in 1648, a Quaker Magistrate and the principal landowner in the parish of Twickenham. Catherine's
Robert_Walpole
City in Massachusetts, United States
colonial settlement that would later become the city was founded by English Quakers in the late 17th century. The town of New Bedford itself was officially
New_Bedford,_Massachusetts
Pornographic novel published in London in 1899
published in Philadelphia in 1904. The book relates the misadventures of Quakers Dolly Morton and her companion Miss Dove who venture into the American
The_Memoirs_of_Dolly_Morton
English Puritan controversialist
attempted to reform the apparel of the saints, and addressed certain queries to the Quakers, accusing them of concealing their beliefs, and of condemning Christian
John_Pendarves
British Quaker missionary and medical doctor (1877–1933)
Hodgkin; 21 April 1877 – 26 March 1933) was a medical doctor and a British Quaker missionary who, in the course of his 55-year life, co-founded the West China
Henry_Hodgkin
Philadelphia Athletics American Association Pittsburgh Alleghenys 9 Mox McQuery September 28, 1885 Detroit Wolverines National League Providence Grays 10
List of Major League Baseball players to hit for the cycle
List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_to_hit_for_the_cycle
Autonomous region of Finland
of Kaiser's Reported Ambition to Make the Baltic a German Lake" (PDF). Query.nytimes.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 August 2021. Retrieved
Åland
LGBT political activist
"homosexual involvement," a charge I received shortly after becoming a Buddhist Quaker and thus a pacifist. Bitter at this second homophobic expulsion, which deprived
Stephen_Donaldson_(activist)
healthy, but not as an adult." However, four years later, in 1964, the Quaker physician, Dr. Mary Calderone, argued for the emerging view that masturbation
Christian views on masturbation
Christian_views_on_masturbation
Term found in the New Testament
"perfectionism and freedom from sin were possible in this world". This traditional Quaker teaching continues to be emphasized by Conservative Friends, such as the
Baptism_with_the_Holy_Spirit
Jesus' death as described in the gospels
Cohn-Sherbok, Who's who in Christianity, (Routledge 1998), p. 303. Notes and Queries, Volume July 6 – December 1852, London, page 252 The Archaeological journal
Crucifixion_of_Jesus
British academic (1916–2006)
and mediation, and visited Nigeria and Biafra several times as part of a Quaker contingent during the Nigerian Civil War of 1967–70. Charles Thomas William
Adam_Curle
language version of Britain Yearly Meeting's Advices and Queries, the part of British Quaker Faith and Practice. It is affiliated to Friends World Committee
Mid-India_Yearly_Meeting
British politician
Charles Gilpin (31 March 1815 – 8 September 1874) was a Quaker, orator, politician, publisher, and railway director. Among his many causes were repeal
Charles_Gilpin_(politician)
Welsh poet and writer (1914–1953)
Caitlin Macnamara (1913–1994), a 22-year-old dancer of Irish and French Quaker descent. She had run away from home, intent on making a career in dance
Dylan_Thomas
Town in Essex, England
cattle market, corn exchange and other civic buildings. During this time Quakers became economically active in the area. The influential Gibsons – one of
Saffron_Walden
Provider of prophecies or insights
contingencies – especially so ex post facto. One famous such response to a query about participation in a military campaign was "You will go you will return
Oracle
Formal disaffiliation of a religious belief
and Arabic learning in the world. The fatwa was issued in response to a query about an Egyptian Muslim man marrying a German Christian woman and then
Apostasy
Romanian historian (1907–1986)
friendship with Nae Ionescu. On another occasion, answering Gershom Scholem's query, he is known to have explicitly denied ever having contributed to Buna Vestire
Mircea_Eliade
Village in Essex, England
with the rest of East Anglia. Susanna Corder (1787–1864), educationist and Quaker biographer was born here. C.H. Spurgeon, known as the "Prince of Preachers"
Kelvedon
Ceremony where people are united in marriage
weddings of other low-church Protestant denominations (e.g., Baptists). A Quaker wedding ceremony in a Friends meeting is similar to any other meeting for
Wedding
Anabaptism, Anglicanism, Baptists, Lutheranism, Methodism, Moravianism, Quakerism, Pentecostalism, Plymouth Brethren, Reformed Christianity, and Waldensianism
List of Christian denominations
List_of_Christian_denominations
Filipino-bred thoroughbred racehorse
Kentucky in the United States. His younger brother Hagdang Bato was out of Quaker Ridge. Ibarra himself after racing served as a sire before he died sometime
Ibarra_(horse)
Town in Suffolk, England
April 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021. "Quakers in Bury St Edmunds - a Simple & Contemporary Way Of Life". Quakers Bury St Edmunds. Archived from the original
Bury_St_Edmunds
U.S. state
and among those who objected to this later that century were the English Quaker preachers Alice and Thomas Curwen, who were publicly flogged and imprisoned
Massachusetts
English writer and bryologist (1868–1957)
Portsmouth Fry (1860–1928) Mariabella Fry (1861–1920) Joan Mary Fry (1862–1955) Quaker social reformer Elizabeth Alice Fry (1864–1868) Roger Eliot Fry (1866–1934)
Agnes_Fry
Sports season
Alleghenys Browns Beaneaters Bisons White Stockings Wolverines Giants Quakers Grays Maroons The 1885 major league baseball season began on April 18
1885 Major League Baseball season
1885_Major_League_Baseball_season
English writer and philosopher (1759–1797)
reflected Wollstonecraft's unwavering focus on education. Lucretia Mott, a Quaker minister, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Americans who met in 1840 at the World
Mary_Wollstonecraft
King of Naples (1806–08) and Spain (1808–13)
leading intellectuals and politicians of his day. In the summer of 1825, the Quaker scientist Reuben Haines III described Bonaparte's estate at Point Breeze
Joseph_Bonaparte
Doctrine in Christian theology
necessity. Cf., for relapse of same origin, http://freedictionary.org/index.php?Query=relapse&database=%2A&strategy=exact : L. relapsus, p. p. of relabi to slip
Predestination
Slave trade between Africa and the West
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. "Notes on the State of Virginia Query 18". Esposito, Elena (2015). Side Effects of Immunities: the African Slave
Atlantic_slave_trade
Region of England
nomisweb.co.uk. Nomis. Retrieved 30 January 2013. "TS030 – Religion Edit query". nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2022. "KS209EW (Religion) – Nomis
North_West_England
Region of England
Statistics". www.ons.gov.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2022. "TS030 - Religion Edit query". www.nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2022. "KS209EW (Religion) -
East_Midlands
American suffragist (1883–1975)
and a national leader in the United States suffrage movement. She was a Quaker and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Vernon
Mabel_Vernon
Village in Somerset, England
Society of Friends was established in Street by the mid-17th century. One Quaker family, the Clarks, started a business in sheepskin rugs, woollen slippers
Street,_Somerset
Dutch colonist and merchant (1607–1676)
missionaries assigned to new settlements. Once he was fined for housing an English Quaker at his home on Bridge Street, as they were excluded as Dissenters from the
Anthony_Janszoon_van_Salee
Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, U.S.
just below Matamoras. The area began as a Post Office and is named for a Quaker family from York County who settled near the mouth of Powells Creek around
Powells_Valley,_Pennsylvania
Historic house in Pennsylvania, United States
Milan), a Quaker who came from Germany by 1689, and was a descendant of a Swiss Mennonite family. His daughter, Margaret, married a Dutch Quaker named Dirck
Wyck_House
Experimental communities in Hawkspur Green, Essex, England
The Q Camps (Q for query or quest) were two experimental communities set up at Hawkspur Green in England. They were based on Planned Environment Therapy
Q_Camp
as a non-juror after the Glorious Revolution. He was connected both to Quakers and to leading academics such as Henry More and John Wallis. He was born
Edmund_Elys
River in Ohio, United States
Richland, Wills, Center, and Cambridge townships, and through the villages of Quaker City, Salesville, and Lore City. It flows into Wills Creek in the southern
Leatherwood Creek (Wills Creek tributary)
Leatherwood_Creek_(Wills_Creek_tributary)
Society of Super Villains. The result was Sapling, Buster, Silhouette, Quaker, and Blur. The Academy of Arch-Villains was a gathering of Wonder Woman
List of criminal organizations in DC Comics
List_of_criminal_organizations_in_DC_Comics
Physics concept expressed as E = mc²
Expedition to Heal the Wounds of War' The 1919 Eclipse and Eddington as Quaker Adventurer". Isis. 94 (1): 57–89. Bibcode:2003Isis...94...57S. doi:10.1086/376099
Mass–energy_equivalence
Culturally recognised union between people
is recognized by custom or law". The anthropological handbook Notes and Queries (1951) defined marriage as "a union between a man and a woman such that
Marriage
International auxiliary language
Advices and Queries (Konsiloj kaj Demandoj) and several other Quaker texts have been translated. Well-known Esperantists who were also Quakers include authors
Esperanto
QUERY QUAKER
QUERY QUAKER
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.Italian (Venice and Mantua) and Greek (Zanes) : from a variant of the Venetian personal name Z(u)an(n)i ‘John’ (see Zani).Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Zahn.Robert Zane was a cloth maker of English origin, a founding member of the Quaker colony that was set up at Salem, NJ, in 1676.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Rhodes.German : variant spelling of Rohde (see Rode), principally a habitational name from any of various places named Rohde or Rohden in Lower Saxony, Saxony, Westphalia, and Hesse.According to family tradition, a certain John Rhode (1752–1840) was a Quaker who came to SC from Germany in the 1770s and served as a baggageman or teamster during the American Revolution.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in the parish of Halifax, West Yorkshire, so named from an unattested Old English word, scacol ‘tongue of land’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.The British Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922) was born in Kilkee, Ireland; his father’s Quaker family came from Yorkshire, England.
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : habitational name from a place named with the Old English phrase (æt ðǣm) nēowan hūsum ‘(at the) new houses’. This and some of the variants listed below are common as place names in northern England. In the form Newsom, the surname is also established in Ireland, being the name of a Quaker family in County Cork.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from an unidentified place (probably in southern England, where the surname is commonest and where chalk hills abound), apparently named with Old English cealc ‘chalk’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.Quaker minister Thomas Chalkley of Southwark, England, first came to America in 1698, on a preaching journey, and in 1700 he brought his family over to MD. The next year he moved to Philadelphia, and in 1723 to a plantation he had purchased in the nearby suburb of Frankford, later a part of the city. As his family grew, he became a sea trader.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and French
English, Scottish, and French : status name for a young servant,
Middle English and Old French page (from Italian paggio,
ultimately from Greek paidion, diminutive of pais ‘boy’,
‘child’). The surname is also common in Ireland (especially Ulster and
eastern Galway), having been established there since the 16th century.North German : metonymic occupational name for
a horse dealer, from Middle Low German page ‘horse’.(Pagé) : North American form of French Paget.A Pagé, also known as Carsy, Quercy, and
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Holland 1.Americanized form of Norwegian Hovland.Howland was the name of three Quaker brothers, original settlers in Marshfield, MA. They were from Huntingdonshire, England. The eldest, John Howland (c.1593–1672) was a passenger on the Mayflower, servant to Gov. John Carver, who died in the first winter at Plymouth Colony.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Ralph.A Francis Rawle from the parish of St. Juliot in Cornwall, England, was recorded as living in Plymouth, MA, in 1660. Devout Quakers seeking to escape persecution, the family emigrated to PA in 1686, bringing with them a deed from William Penn for a tract of 2,500 acres of land, which was subsequently located in Plymouth township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) Co. His son, who had six sons himself, was a political economist and one of the first people to write on the subject and its local applications in America.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the places, for example in Cheshire, County Durham, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and North and West Yorkshire, so called from Old English stocc ‘tree trunk’ or stoc ‘dependent settlement’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. It is not possible to distinguish between the two first elements on the basis of early forms.A family of this name were established in America by an English Quaker, Richard Stockton, in 1656. He bought large tracts of land around Princeton, NJ, and founded an estate on which his great-grandson, Richard Stockton (1730–81), a leading colonial lawyer and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was born.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Boone.John Bowne (c. 1627–95), a Quaker, came from Matlock, Derbyshire, England, to Boston, MA, in 1651.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a bald-headed man or someone of cadaverous appearance, from Middle English sc(h)olle, sc(h)ulle ‘skull’ (probably of Scandinavian origin).Nicholas Scull emigrated from Bristol, England, to Philadelphia, PA, with his brother John in 1685. He founded a wealthy Quaker family whose descendants have been prominent in western PA, in law, newspaper publication, and banking.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in Greater Manchester called Pemberton, from Celtic penn ‘hill’, ‘head’ + Old English bere ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.There seem to have been several families called de Pemberton in the Wigan area of Manchester, England, as early as the beginning of the 13th century, notably that of Adam de Pemberton, a substantial landowner Three Quaker brothers named Pemberton were born in Philadelphia: Israel (b. 1715), James (b. 1723), and John (b. 1727); Israel and James became wealthy merchants and philanthropists.
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Indian, Kannada
Njn
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Middle English personal name Kynsey, a survival of Old English Cynesige, composed of the elements cyne ‘royal’ + sige ‘victory’.This name may also have assimilated some cases of Scottish MacKenzie, with the Mac prefix omitted.Possibly an Americanized spelling of Swiss German Künzi (see Kuenzi).The paternal grandfather of NJ and PA legislator John Kinsey (1693–1750) was one of the commissioners sent out from England in 1677 by the West Jersey proprietors to buy land from the Indians and to lay out a town. John was the leader of the Quaker party in the PA assembly and chief justice of the PA supreme court.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly northeastern)
English (mainly northeastern) : habitational name from any of various minor places (including perhaps some now lost) named from Old English hÄr ‘gray’, hara ‘hare’, or hær ‘rock’, ‘tumulus’ + land ‘tract of land’, ‘estate’, ‘cultivated land’, notably Harland in Kirkbymoorside. North Yorkshire, which is named from hær + land. This surname has been present in northern Ireland since the 17th century.French (Normandy) : nickname for someone given to stirring up trouble, from the present participle of medieval French hareler ‘to create a disturbance’.George and Michael Harland were Quakers who emigrated from Durham, England, to Ireland. George went on to DE in 1687 and became governor in 1695, while Michael went to Philadelphia. George Harland’s descendants, who dropped the final -d from their name, included a number of prominent American politicians, in particular James Harlan (1820–99), who became a senator and secretary of the interior.
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire) : from an Old English personal name, Merewine, Merefinn, or MÇ£rwynn (see Marvin).The first Murfins in North America were Nottinghamshire Quakers. Robert and Ann Murfin and their daughter Mary sailed from Hull, England, in 1678 on the ship Shield of Stockton and settled at Chesterfield, near Burlington, NJ.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.John Mifflin (born 1640) came to Delaware from Warminster, Wiltshire, England, in the 1670s. He is probably the same person as the John Mifflin, a Quaker, who built his home, ‘Fountain Green’, in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, in 1679. His fourth-generation descendant Thomas Mifflin (1744–1800) was a member of the Continental Congress, a revolutionary soldier, and governor of PA.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from some fancied resemblance to the songbird (Emberiza spp.).German : patronymic from an unexplained Frisian-Lower Saxon personal name, or a derivative of Bunt- (see Bunten).Sarah Bunting (1686–1762), born in Matlock, Derbyshire, became a noted Quaker minister in Cross Wicks, NJ. It is believed but not certain that other members of her family, including her father, John Bunting, came with her to NJ sometime before 1704, when her marriage to William Murfin is recorded.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained. Possibly an Anglicized form of Dutch Swijse(n), variant of Wijs ‘wise’ (see Wise).The name was brought to North America by John Swasey, a Quaker who came from England to Salem, MA, with two sons, John and Joseph, in or before 1640. Banished from Salem because of his religious beliefs, he moved first to Setauket, Long Island, NY, and subsequently to Southold, Long Island. His son Joseph remained in MA and inherited his estate at Salem.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from various places, for example Penn in Buckinghamshire and Staffordshire, named with the Celtic element pen ‘hill’, which was apparently adopted in Old English.English : metonymic occupational name for an impounder of stray animals, from Middle English, Old English penn ‘(sheep) pen’.English : pet form of Parnell.German : from Sorbian pien ‘tree stump’, probably a nickname for a short stocky person.Americanized form of a like-sounding Jewish surname.The Commonwealth of PA was founded in 1681 by an English Quaker, William Penn (1644–1718), who was born in London into a family of Gloucestershire origin. His grandfather was a merchant and sea captain, and his father was an admiral on the Parliamentary side during the Civil War, who later served King Charles II after the Restoration. Because of his father’s services to the crown, Penn the younger received a grant of a vast tract of land in North America, formerly part of New Netherland, which later became the state of PA.
QUERY QUAKER
QUERY QUAKER
Boy/Male
Indian
Born of Mind
Boy/Male
Tamil
Nirvan | நிரà¯à®µà®¾à®£Â
Liberation
Boy/Male
Arabic, German, Muslim
God; Provider; Another Name for God; Cherisher
Male
Iranian/Persian
(بهمن) Persian name derived from the Zoroastrian phrase Vohu Mana, BAHMAN means "good mind." Kai Bahman is the name of a legendary king of Persia (Iran).
Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Counsellor
Boy/Male
Tamil
Basil, Goddess Radha, Tulsi
Girl/Female
Hebrew
God's favor.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lord Vishnu
Boy/Male
Arabic, Hindu, Indian, Muslim, Sindhi
Friend
Boy/Male
Australian, Czech, Czechoslovakian, German, Greek, Slavic, Slovenia
Masculine
QUERY QUAKER
QUERY QUAKER
QUERY QUAKER
QUERY QUAKER
QUERY QUAKER
v. t.
To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread, or rope.
n.
An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a doubt.
imp. & p. p.
of Query
n.
A hand mill. See Quern.
n.
A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Query
n.
A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills.
v. i.
To have a doubt; as, I query if he is right.
n.
A groom; an equerry.
v. i.
To ask questions; to make inquiry.
n.
That which is asked; inquiry; interrogatory; query.
pl.
of Query
n. & v.
See Querl.
n.
A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity.
v. t.
To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into; as, to query the items or the amount; to query the motive or the fact.
v. t.
To write " query" (qu., qy., or ?) against, as a doubtful spelling, or sense, in a proof. See Quaere.
v. t.
To address questions to; to examine by questions.
v. t.
To doubt of; to regard with incredulity.
v. t.
To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query.
v. t.
Earnest inquiry; question; query.