Moravian Lives

A Collection of Moravian Memoirs from 18th Century English Congregations

Category: Married Brethren

Moravian Archives London, UK (Fetter Lane)

  • Johanna Eleonora Benade (1756-1792)

    uncatalogued Life of the married Sister Johannah Eleonora Benade, who departed this life at London January 7th 1792 She has left the following written Account measuring her course thro this life. I was born October 22d 1756 at Eubau (Iboro) in Upper Lusatia & baptized the 26th in the Lutheran Church. My dear Parents, who…

  • John Willey (1781-1847)

    London Memoir Of Br John Willey, a Servant of the Lord in the Brn’s Church, who departed this life in Gracehill, October 6th 1847. Aged 66 years. Written by his children Not having been able to find any account of our dear father’s life, written by himself, we can merely record some of the principal…

  • Samuel Tippett (1711-1780)

    I Sam.l Tippett have thought it might not be amiss to leave the following lines behind me. I was Born in the year of our Lord in 1711 In the Parrish of Bitton, in the Hamlet of Oland My Father died when I was young, my mother kept me to school tho with some difficulty,…

  • Esther Latrobe (1802-1829)

    Brief – Memoir of our late happily departed Sister Esther Latrobe drawn up by her Husband and Brother Our late dear Relative was born at Bristol, June the 7th 1802, and being the only daughter among a family of six children, was peculiarly precious to her parents and brothers, and tenderly beloved by them. This…

  • 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…

  • 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.