Susanna Wesley
This is the story of Susanna Wesley, 1669-1742 Mother of Charles and John Wesley, who were founders of the Methodist Church. Susanna and her husband, Samuel, had nineteen children, ten of whom survived to adulthood. Her son Charles became a well-known hymn writer and her son John became the found of Methodism. Susanna was brought up in a Puritan home as the youngest of twenty-five children. As a teenager, she became a member of the Church of England. She became the wife of a chronically debt-ridden parish rector in an English village. She said, "I have had a large experience of what the world calls adverse fortune." Nonetheless, Susanna managed to pass down to her children Christian principles that stayed with them.
This is the story of Susanna Wesley, 1669-1742 Mother of Charles and John Wesley, who were founders of the Methodist Church. Susanna and her husband, Samuel, had nineteen children, ten of whom survived to adulthood. Her son Charles became a well-known hymn writer and her son John became the found of Methodism.
Susanna was brought up in a Puritan home as the youngest of twenty-five children. As a teenager, she became a member of the Church of England. She became the wife of a chronically debt-ridden parish rector in an English village. She said, "I have had a large experience of what the world calls adverse fortune." Nonetheless, Susanna managed to pass down to her children Christian principles that stayed with them.
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CHAPTER XII.<br />
DISAPPOINTMENTS AND PERPLEXITIES.<br />
MBS. WESLEY, it will be remembered, had a brother,<br />
Samuel Annesley, who went to India, which, in those<br />
days, was regarded almost as live-long banishment.<br />
He left a wife and perhaps young children behind him,<br />
who seem to have resided at Shore House, Hackney,<br />
a fine old red brick residence which was in the fields<br />
when Jane Shore lived there, and was approached by<br />
her royal lover by a footpath from the main road,<br />
known for many generations as King Edward's Path,<br />
but now widened and built over, and called King<br />
Edward's Road. Shore House is well remembered by<br />
numbers of people<br />
still living, but it has shared the<br />
fate of so many similar edifices, and been pulled down,<br />
the old bricks being used in the erection of small<br />
villas built over what was once a fertile and wellstocked<br />
garden, and forming a short thoroughfare<br />
called Shore Road. Samuel Annesley must have been<br />
in fairly prosperous circumstances to have established<br />
his family at Shore House, and it is nearly certain<br />
that after the fire at Epworth Rectory one or two of<br />
his nieces stayed with them for a time, and produced
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