Methodist Church

In this dockyard community AHG , to her great but pleasant surprise, found a small society of [twenty-eight] black & coloured people calling themselves Methodists . Their piety withstood the disadvantages of lacking a chapel...

LB was born into a wealthy and strict English Wesleyan family. She generally saw her parents only once a day, at prayers, and on Sunday for both Chapel and dinner. She later refused to be...

As an adult HS abandoned her mother 's strict Methodism and became an incurable sermon-taster. She favoured several denominations at the extreme of Protestantism. During the twelve-year period recorded in her Log Books only three...

Sources also differ as to whether her family were Church of IrelandAnglicans (following long tradition) and Charlotte later inclined to Methodism or Evangelicism, like her mother, or whether while many of her relations were...

Born into the English Dissenting middle class, she held a strong religious faith which was the guiding principle of her life.

SW died at her son John 's Methodist headquarters of The Foundery in London.

In November 1874 a great change came in Marie's life when her mother engaged for her children an English nurse, Sarah Mew , a Wesleyan of a rigid type, though she had leanings towards Methodism

As a teenager EW was sent back to England for further education at Trinity Hall School in Southport, Lancashire, a Wesleyan Methodist boarding school for girls. She later recalled this as a highly regimented,...

Her father had already treated her harshly, though he was one of the first converts of the early Methodist preacher George Whitefield .

His father, Ebenezer Jenkins , was a Methodist missionary in India during the 1840s. James Heald Jenkins was his only son.

He was of Swiss origin, ten years her senior (born in 1729 at Nyon near Geneva), and a fellow-evangelical. In 1773 John Wesley had approached him about taking on leadership of the Methodist movement...

SW bore the child who became the most famous of all her offspring: John Wesley , father of Methodism .

Cassandra's cousin Jane Austen criticised the household management of Samuel Cooke (who was her godfather), judging him a disagreable, fidgetty master to his servants. In his professional capacity he worried about competing with the Methodists

Ethel Bryant married Dr Wallace Algernon Wilson , at a quiet ceremony at Wesley Methodist Church in Vancouver.

EW 's mother was Eliza Davis Malkin , called Lila. She was the oldest of nine children born to a serious, deeply pious Wesleyan Methodist family at Burslem in Staffordshire, England. Upon marriage...