Methodist Church

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...

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

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,...

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

In 1912 EW was briefly engaged to a Methodist lawyer, John Pethybridge Nicolls , whose family was close with her grandmother. She had known him since she was a young teenager; he was almost twenty...

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...

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

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

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

EF 's father, Peter Jaco , born in 1721, was a Cornishman, who early in life worked for his father in the pilchard fishery; ships owned by the family sailed in the Mediterranean. EF said...

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