Moravian Lives

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

Tag: Wiltshire

  • Samuel Tippett (1711-1780)

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    Katie Faull

    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,…

  • Benigna Briand (1707-1763)

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    Katie Faull

    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…