The following is available on CompuServe, prepared by Leslie Griffith Jacoby.
Standard abbreviations found in Hinshaw and other Quaker records:
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altm at liberty to marry |
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apd attending places of diversion |
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apd appointed, appealed |
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apt appointed |
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att attached to, attended |
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b born |
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bur buried |
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cert certificate |
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ch child, children |
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co chosen overseer(s) |
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com complained, complained of |
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con condemned |
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d died |
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dec deceased |
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dis disowned, disowned for |
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dt daughter(s) |
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fam family |
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form formerly |
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gc granted certificate |
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gct granted certificate to |
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gl granted letter |
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h husband |
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jas joined another society |
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ltm liberated to marry, left at liberty to marry |
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m marry, married, marrying, marriage |
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mbr member |
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mbrp membership |
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mcd married contrary to discipline |
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MH meeting house |
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MM monthly meeting |
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mos married out of society |
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mou married out of unity |
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prc produced a certificate |
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prcf produced a certificate from |
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QM quarterly meeting |
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rec receive, received |
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recrq received y request |
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relfc released from care for |
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relrq released by request |
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rem remove, removed |
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rm reported married |
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rmt reported married to |
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roc received on certificate |
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rocf received on certificate from |
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rol received on letter |
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rpd reported |
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rq request, requests, requested |
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rqc requested certificate |
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rqct requested certificate to |
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rqcuc requested to come under care (of meeting, mtg) |
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rst reinstate, reinstated |
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s son(s) |
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uc under care (of mtg) |
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w wife |
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YM yearly meeting |
GLOSSARY of common terms found in Quaker records:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: A formal acknowledgment by a member, in writing, of having acted in a manner contrary to discipline.
CERTIFICATE: Generally, given to a member for movement between meetings. This included those given to ministers by their home meeting for travel to other locations and which were returned to the home meeting when the ministry was completed.
DISOWNMENT: When a member of the Society of Friends acted in a manner contrary to discipline, that member was visited by a committee appointed by the meeting. If the member failed to acknowledge fault after visitation by the committee, then the member was disowned by the Society and could not be reinstated until acknowledgement of fault was made.
LAID DOWN: Term for the official discontinuance of a meeting.
MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE: Document which was the official record that a marriage had taken place. No minister or other person officially performed a ceremony. Other papers which may be found as a part of the marriage process are: a record from the respective meetings, if appropriate, which stated the parties in question were of good character and free of any marriage commitments; a record of the parental consent to the marriage (if the parents were living); a letter from the parents giving consent to the marriage. This process may cover a period of more than one month. -----------------------------------------------------
MEETINGS:
INDULGED MEETING: A meeting for worship only. Set up by a monthly meeting when a preparative meeting was impractical.
MEN'S and WOMEN's MEETINGS: In the early years, separate meetings for business were held at the same location. Meetings for worship were held in the same room, men sitting on one side of the room, women on the other. Women's meetings were concerned only with the affairs of women in the meeting and records were kept of each meeting. In matters of discipline, and occasionally at other times, the two clerks would both sign the minute records. Matters of interest to both men and women were handled by small committees from each meeting, since they met at the same time and location but in separate rooms. Representatives, in pairs, could be sent to the other meeting when necessary. About 1880 separate men's and women's meetings began to disappear.
MONTHLY MEETING: The main, and genealogically important, unit of the Society of Friends. Membership included members from all the indulged and preparative meetings under the jurisdiction of the monthly meeting. All registers of the subordinate meetings, and all business minutes, were kept by the monthly meeting. Final decisions in all matters were made in the monthly meeting. All members within its jurisdiction were expected to attend the business meetings.
PARTICULAR MEETING: May have several meanings. It could be a worship meeting under a monthly meeting. Occasionally, it was a meeting of ministering Friends (especially in the early years), or it could distinguish a monthly from a quarterly meeting of the same name.
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