http://yorkstories.co.uk/quaker-burial-ground-bishophill/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://yorkstories.co.uk/quaker-burial-ground-bishophill/#comment-258 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:59:32 +0000 #comment-258 Just re-read this piece after reading the Sessions’ “Tukes of York” in which there is an interesting account of the early battles over these headstones. Many Quakers believed even stones such as these were too ostentatious and William Tuke was particularly enthusiatic in upholding a Yearly Meeting ruling that all stones should be removed. It was only later in 1850 that the ruling was relented and the modest stones reappeared including ironically one for William Tuke some 30 years after his death. The Sessions’ book (published first in 1971) records 32 headstones remaining. A nineteenth century plan notes the position of 150 named graves with other areas known to contain many unknown graves.

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