Society of Friends

Mary Shakleton (later ML ) was brought up in an Irish Quaker family of the middle class.

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.

BB was converted to Quakerism by two of the early adherents of the sect, John Audland and John Camm .

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.

JB 's spiritual struggle dated back to his unregenerate teens. Under the influence of his first wife he began attending the establishedchurch and developed exaggerated reverence for its priests, but he later saw this...

At last she freed herself enough from her religious scruples to decide that music and writing were both permissible. It was about now that she moved to Ipswich with a view to learning more about...

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...

She was born into the upper middling ranks of white settler society. Like many in Pennsylvania, she was a Quaker .

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...

ASB 's family background is English, middle-class, and Anglican . Initially, her mother was an atheist and her father took the children to an Anglican church, but both parents held Quaker values, and eventually they...

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.

EAD came from an upper-middle-class, Liberal, Welsh, presumably white family. Her paternal grandfather had been a Quaker , but he had left the Society of Friends to marry a non-Quaker woman. Their children were born...

MS became a Unitarian like John Taylor before she married him. It has been said that she followed him again in his further change of religious affiliation, becoming a Quaker in 1790.

Her death was reported to the Society of Friends in England by James Lancaster , who provided a loving presence for her at the end.

KEI was buried in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, St Mary Bourne, Hampshire. After the funeral, the Society of Friends held a short service at the graveside, at which George, her husband of...