Family matters: Beth Follini gets the picture
‘In a photo of this era we usually expect something deeply serious.’
I discovered this photo when helping my mother declutter her cosy apartment in Halifax, Canada. She is a member of Halifax Meeting. We are from a long line of Quakers, direct descendants of Thomas Iredell, who was born in 1676 at Riggs Bank. He migrated to Philadelphia in 1700, carrying with him a letter of introduction from Friends in Cumberland. Family myth has it that Thomas converted to Quakerism through listening to George Fox speak at Pardshaw Crag.
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