Anne Whitehead

01 January 1624 - 28 July 1686

AW petitioned with other women for the release of Friends imprisoned for their beliefs. Ten years later, at a time of declining radicalism in the Quaker sect on matters of gender, she wrote the larger part of a collaborative text calling for the setting up of Women's Meetings. This seems like a dogged attempt to preserve a distinctively female power base within the Quaker movement by defining women's concerns as chiefly domestic and educational.

Milestones

About 1624

According to the ODNB Anne Downer (later AW , early Quaker convert) was born at Charlbury in Oxfordshire, one of three sisters, at a less than certain date.

An Anne Downer, daughter of Andrew Downer, was baptised at Findon in Sussex on 22 February 1624,

“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

while several sources give AW 's birthplace as London.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

28 July 1686

AW died in her mid sixties; her second husband survived her by thirty-seven years.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Background

About 1624

According to the ODNB Anne Downer (later AW , early Quaker convert) was born at Charlbury in Oxfordshire, one of three sisters, at a less than certain date.

An Anne Downer, daughter of Andrew Downer, was baptised at Findon in Sussex on 22 February 1624,

“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

while several sources give AW 's birthplace as London.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.