Moravian Lives

A Collection of Moravian Memoirs from 18th Century English Congregations

Tag: the English Church

  • Joseph Lingard (1680-1763)

    Dukenfield, the 29th of March, was a blessed Lovefeast after the Burying of Brother Joseph Lingard for the whole Society. He was born in 1680. in the Parish of Glossop in the County of Derby . He was brought in the high Church of Engelland . In 1729 he marryed the present Widdow, and had…

  • Elizabeth Grundy (1717-1799)

    Page 1: -Vo.10. G. Gd Life I. Holmes of the widow Sr. Elizabeth Grundy, late Alvid, who departed this life at Bayldon in Yorkshire, May the 9th 1799. She has dictated the following account of her life to her son, our Br. James Grundy: I was born February 6. 1717. near Chowbent in the parish…

  • Harriet Lees (1811-1842)

    Memoir of Harriet Lees + Family. 1842 at Leominster aged 30 /// Brief Memoir of the late happily departed Sister Harriett Lees, who fell asleep in Jesus on the 17th of January 1842 aged 30 – and was interred in the Burying Ground adjacent to the Chapel of the United Brethren in Leominster. // Our…

  • Benigna Briand (1707-1763)

    Here followed the 22nd of March our dear Sister Benigna Briand. She was born the 17th of December 1707 at Lyneham in Wiltshire. Her Parents have been of the Quaker Religion & She was brought up in the same Principles. Anno 1740 the 19th February was she married to our Br. Briand & they followed…