On 13 Apr 2014 15:48, singhals wrote:
> Since you alluded to it -- was 31 March the quarter day when
> the year began 25 Mar? Because my logic suggests quarter
> day then would have been 26 June, which would explain a few
> puzzles.
>
> I ask primarily because I once ran across some Quaker MM
> records that counted months from the date of the MM's
> founding, not from the calendar (i.e., the first month was
> July or September, not January or March), which was
> massively misleading when one tried to match with non-Quaker
> records from the area!
In England
The English quarter days (also observed in Wales and the Channel Islands) are:
Lady Day (25 March)
Midsummer Day (24 June)
Michaelmas (29 September)
Christmas (25 December)
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Regards,
Mike Fry
Johannesburg (g)
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