Moravian Lives

Focus on Fulneck: A Collection of Moravian Memoirs from 18th Century Yorkshire Congregation

Author: Harrison Quinn

  • Charles von Larisch (Reading Version)

    Lindsey House on November 1st, 1754. After the remains of our dear Bother Larish were interned, the Brethren and Sisters (among whom were many from London) met in the Family Hall in Lindsey House and then was sung that hymn: O head so full of bruises, after which the disciple spoke in English as follows.…

  • Crispin Taylor (Reading Version)

    Crispin Taylor was born in Wyke in the Parish of Birstall on April 26th, 1698, and lived with his father, who taught him the trade of a shoemaker, until April 1722, being then 24 years of age, he was married to Mary Wilkinson, who is his present wife, and had by her 9 children, four…

  • John Skelton (Reading Version)

    The life of the Widower John Skelton who departed at Fulneck on June 30th, 1773. He has left us the following in writing; I was born in the year 1703 in Lightlif in the Parish of Hallifax. My father and mother belonged to the Church of England. My father died when I was but a…