Moravian Lives

A Collection of Moravian Memoirs from 18th Century English Congregations

Author: Katie Faull

  • Sarah Verney (1758-1795)

    Source archive: LondonDocument reference: Memoirs London, 300047 The Life of our late Sister Sarah Verney who departed this life January 6th who has left the following account of herself. I was born October 3d 1758 at Waltham Cross in the parish of CheshuntHertfordshire in my 9thYr. I lost my dear Mother as a child I…

  • Peter Jacob Planta (1721-1815)

    Memoir of the Life of our late venerable & happily departed Br Peter Jacob Planta, who entered into joy of his Lord, at Ockbrook, May the 6th 1815, in the 94th year of his age, written by himself.

  • Martha Ashly (1736-1763)

    Source archive: Bethlehem Document reference: Memoirs Bethlehem 0164 The single Sister Martha Ashly. She wrote of herself as follows: I am born the 21st. Sept. 1736. at Stornhill near Wike. & brought up in the engl. Church. In my Childhood I heard the Brethren ; testifying the tender Love of our Saviour that I got…

  • Karen Borg (1768-1847)

    Memoir of our beloved Sister Karen Borg, who departed to the Lord at Gracehill,March 8 1847.

  • Anna Rosina Church (1756-1841)

    Brief Memoir of the Widow Sister Anna Rosina Church, who departed at Petershall, March 12th. 1841. I was born Feb. 2, 1756 at Neustadt in Silesia, during a very distressing & troublous period. My Parents before my birth resistedin Lauenburg, but from there they were obliged to remove to Neustadt, having lost their all, by…

  • Mattheus Wittke (1749-1803)

    Von den Lebensumständen unseres selig entschlafenen Bruders Matthew Wittke hat sich unter seinen Papieren verschiedenes gefunden, wovon Nachstehendes ein Auszug ist:  (In einem Aufsatz seines Lebenslaufes, der aber nur bis in die Jugendjahre gehet, heißt es so: Ich bin geboren den 7. April 1749 in Nazareth.)