Moravian Lives

A Collection of Moravian Memoirs from 18th Century English Congregations

Category: Widows

Moravian Archives London, UK (Fetter Lane)

  • 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…

  • Mary Stratton (1745-

    Memorandum of my course of life (widow of Thos Harsley? + Bradford, Wilts) The Lord hath done great things for me what to his precise each blood drop within me were followed always My Maiden name was Craddock I was born in Bristol,  April 17 1745 Old Stile and was Baptized in the Church of…

  • 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…

  • 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…