Society of Friends

She was born a Dissenter and until her marriage attended the Presbyterian church in East Bond Street, Leicester. John Wesley visited the Coltman household during her youth. Later, during her widowhood, she became a Quaker .

Seventeenth-century Linskills were active in the Society of Friends and in local trade. Mary Jane was strongly religious. Stamp relays a story of her mother not only frightening her with stories about hell, but...

ALW was brought as a Quaker . Both her parents were members of the Society of Friends , to which her family had belonged for generations. They were also proud of their Welsh ancestry.

Born as an American colonist to parents who had themselves emigrated from England because of their Quaker faith, she was, she says, not a gentlewoman by birth. She defined a gentlewoman as one with no...

MS grew up in a prosperous, middle-class household, in which religion was the centre of everyday life and activity. Most sources agree that her family were Protestant Dissenters.

MD attended the yearly meeting of the Society of Friends in Edinburgh with about thirty young women of her circle, apparently out of a joking spirit of curiosity.

Katharine Conway, later KBG , was born to an English, white, minister's family, who considering their middle-class status were relatively poor. She was the product of her parents' views on equality of educational opportunities for...

She was brought up as an Anglican , but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism (in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism .

MP regretted the passing of the days when the Friends had been, although persecuted, more steady, pure, and active in their faith. In her husband's words: She mourned for the obvious declension of our society...

Her family were Quakers , but wealthy ones, leaders too in the political life of Pennsylvania at the time that the British American colonies were becoming the United States.

At six or seven, BB wrote, she became fearful about her future state, and was afraid of dying because of the prospect of Hell. The smallpox renewed these religious terrors. She had thrown them...

She was born into a family of Quakers . Her parents, however, were less strict in their observances than their own parents had been, and later strayed into other beliefs. Her mother dressed Anna Mary...

JW , a Londoner with possible Welsh heritage, was a restless seeker after religious truth, apparently throughout her life. She sometimes dressed in sackcloth and ashes as a mark of penitence, for as much as...

ES says the Lord began to work in her heart, preparing a conversion experience, when the QuakersJohn Audland and John Camm shamed her about her fine clothes.

William Miller sent MD a letter on behalf of the Edinburgh Meeting of the Society of Friends which constructively dismissed her from the Society.