Methodist Church

Born in South Africa to white parents of British origin but later settled in Canada, and accustomed in later years to a high professional standard of living, EW had a Methodist , comfortable, sheltered upbringing...

EPL grew up in a large, upper-middle-class, Liberal family that taught her to disregard class distinction. Her father came from a long line of Cornish farmers who were devoted Methodist s. As a young...

Born into the English professional class, to a family with strong connections with the law, JCM became deeply religious. When the Methodist movement got going (still within the Church of England ) it attracted her strongly.

She grew up in a nonconformist environment that encouraged reading and learning. Her religious faith was deeply influenced by the strong Evangelical Methodist beliefs of her mother.

LB was born into a wealthy and strict EnglishWesleyan 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...

The mother and grandmother of Anne and her sister Elizabeth were Methodists, and the girls themselves were baptised Methodists in 1786, the year after their mother's death, during a missionary visit to Antigua. After their...

From about this time she associated herself with John Wesley 's fairly new religious group called the Methodists (then part of the Church of England). Another influence on her religious thinking was Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

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...

The child of wealthy English Anglican family of Huguenot extraction, Mary Bosanquet received at about the age of four what she felt to be a proof that God answers prayer. At five she developed an...

She created her own, millenarian religious sect after the Methodists and the Church of England (both of whose services she attended) had rebuffed her unconventional advances. She is, however, often associated with the Methodists.

JB was born into a wealthy, presumably white family that instilled in its children Anglican and Evangelical piety and Liberal principles. Her religious activities were diverse and sometimes even seemingly contradictory. She recalls that her...

McDonald chose the Gilbert household as the base from which to pursue his mission, until he died of a violent fever on 4 December 1798. His death was a solemn yet, as their religion decreed...

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...

At eighteen, while her family moved on from the London season to the fashionable seaside resort of Scarborough, she got permission to stay on in London at the house of an uncle, where she overtaxed...