Primitive Methodist Women H-M

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HARDING, Suzannah

Nothing is known, except that Suzannah was pledged by Brinkworth Circuit (1834) and was possibly working in the Shefford area as a hired local preacher prior to this. Tonks (op. cit.) records her in his list of ministers who travelled in the Brinkworth (Seagry) Circuit in 1831-32.
Stations
1834 Brinkworth
1835 Chippenham
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HAYNES (HAINES), Ann

Nothing is known, except that she was pledged by the Shefford Circuit (1834).
Stations
1834 Shefford
1835 Mitcheldever
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HENSHAW, (HENSHALL), Ann

Nothing is known, except that she was pledged by Prees Circuit (1834).
Stations
1834 Prees (2 years)
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HORTON, Sarah

Nothing further is known of her.
Stations
1823 Tunstall
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HOVEY, Adelaide

Nothing further is known of her.
Stations
1834 Retford
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HUBBOLD, Lucy (1809-1860)

Lucy was born at Townsend, Staffordshire on 14th July 1809. Her upbringing was described as “strictly moral”, and she attended both day and Sunday school. When PMs visited the village, she went out of curiosity to hear them. She was converted and, although feeling a call to preach, was very reluctant to do so, but eventually responded and became a local preacher (1835). During her first quarter as a local preacher she was asked to become a travelling preacher. She was pledged by the Ludlow Circuit (1835). While at Longton Lucy broke a bone in her foot, which caused her to become so lame that she was forced to retire from the itinerancy (1837/8). However, she continued to work as a hired local preacher until her voice gave way under the strain of preaching and she had to retire altogether. She settled in Longton. In 1847 William Belcher, as a token of respect, bequeathed a house to her in which she lived until her final illness. In retirement, Lucy was a local preacher and a class leader. She gave £5 to Longton chapel trustees towards the building of new schools. When she developed rheumatic fever, friends took her to their home in Bromley Lane, near Brierley [Hill], Dudley, where she died on Friday, 2nd November 1860.
Stations
1835 Hopton Bank
1837 Longton
1836 Ludlow
Obituary 
PM Mag. (1861) pp. 200-04 [obituary gives date of marriage as 1828, but IGI contains details listed above]
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HUNT, Elizabeth (1795-1840)

[The maiden name of Elizabeth Wheeldon (q.v.)]
Born in Belper in 1795, Elizabeth was the daughter of James and Grace (nee Smith). She was baptised on 1st November 1796 in Belper. In 1822 she became a travelling preacher. When she married Richard Wheeldon of Belper, a local preacher, on 18th June 1822 at Duffield, Derbyshire, Elizabeth retired from the itinerancy. Then, after his death (9th April 1826), she returned to the itinerancy as Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeldon (q.v.).
Stations
1822 Darlaston
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HURLE, Frances [Fanny] (1789-1858)

Born at Kingston Deverill, Wiltshire (1790) into a ‘respectable’ staunch Church of England family Fanny was the daughter of Thomas and Anne and baptised on 22nd November 1789 in Monkton Deverill. Fanny was converted in a WM Chapel in Wales (1813). She met with strong family opposition, but resisted it and became a WM class leader. When the PMs visited her home area she joined them (c. 1828), soon becoming a local preacher and then a travelling preacher, being pledged by Bath Circuit (1834). She itinerated for about 18 months before her health gave way. She returned home to recover, but decided she ought to retire. She married John Parker, a local preacher from Frome on 27th February 1838 at Kingston Deverill and moved to Longbridge Deverill. She most probably reverted to local preacher status. Fanny suffered from dropsy and died on 18th April 1858.
Stations
1834 Shefford
Obituary 
PM Mag. (1858) pp. 461-463
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JACKSON, Ann (1810-1876/7)

She was born at St. Martin’s Moor, near Oswestry, Shropshire, 10th May 1810, into a Church of England family – “Her parents occupied a respectable position” (unspecified). Her father died when Ann was 17, and she went to live with an aunt, Mrs Edwards, who was a PM local preacher in the Oswestry circuit. Converted, Ann became a local preacher (c. 1825) and a travelling preacher (c. 1830). She was known as “the weeping prophetess”. Ann married Isaac Hammonds on 27th June 1831 at Waterfall, Staffordshire and reverted to local preacher status, also serving as a Sunday school teacher. She suffered a severe illness for about four and a half years before dying on 8th March 1876 or 1877.
Stations
1831 ‘Under the direction of The General Committee’ (1831) probably at Ramsor.
Obituary 
PM Mag. (1877) p. 744
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JAMES, E

Nothing further is known of her, except records of payments for deficiency in stipend while at Haverfordwest and also a payment to the Blaenavon circuit for her illness of 16 weeks.
Stations
1829 Pillawell
1831 Blaenavon
1830 Haverfordwest
1832 Presteign (half)
Bishops Castle (half)
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JOHNSON, Elizabeth (1808-1860)

Elizabeth was born in Shrewsbury, 24th August 1808 where she attended the WM Sunday school, but when the PMs visited the town she was converted. She very quickly started to exhort and became a local preacher, then a travelling preacher (1824), facing much opposition from noisy musicians, “drunks” and clergy during her ministry. She married William Brownhill of Birchills, Walsall, a local preacher, on 17th March 1828 at St Thomas’, Dudley. They lived in the Darlaston circuit, where Elizabeth served as a local preacher and class leader. In August 1860 she became ill and died on 15th November 1860, survived by her husband, seven sons and three daughters. Three of her sons became mayors of Walsall – R.W. Brownhill (1872 & 1873); William Brownhill (1891); T P. Brownhill (1893). The 1881 census returns record William Brownhill, aged 75, born c. 1806 at Rilston (sic) [?Bilston?], occupation ‘Agent’, living with his daughter, Mercy, aged 42, born 1839 at Rilston (sic) [?Bilston?], occupation Laundress, at Birchill Hall, with the census place given as Walsall Foreign. There is also record of a William, aged 37, born 1844 at Walsall, occupation ‘Iron Manufacturer’ – he could well be the son who was mayor in 1891.
Stations
1824 Oakengates (half)
Preston o’ the Hill (half)
1826 Darlaston 1825 Preston o’ the Hill (half)
Ramsor (half)
1827 Burton-on-Trent
Obituary 
PM Mag. (1861) pp. 206-08
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JOHNSON, Hannah

Hannah seems to have worked as a travelling preacher before the commencement of the recorded Stations, as well as afterwards. Her name is listed on the PM Circuit Plan for the Home Branch of the Hull Circuit 1827 (April-July) with an asterisk.
Stations
1821 Brotherton
1824 Isle of Man (2 years)
1822 Malton
1826 Tunstall
1823 Silsden
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LACY, Sarah

Nothing further is known of her.
Stations
1824 Fakenham
1825 Retford
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LOWDEN, Ann

Nothing is known of her, unless the obituary noted refers to her, although it contains nothing to indicate that the deceased was a travelling preacher.
Stations
1826 Hull
Obituary 
PM Mag. (1846) p. 122 [?]
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METCALF, Ann

Nothing is known of her, except that she was pledged by the Louth circuit in 1830.
Stations
1830 Lincoln
1832 York
1831 Pocklington (half)
York (half)
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MOOR (MOORE), Mary Anna Elizabeth (1809-1868)

Born at Motcombe, near Shaftesbury, Dorset on 13th October 1809, she was the only daughter and youngest child of William and Anna. Although baptised into the Church of England she and her brothers were sent to the WM Sunday school. She first came across the PMs while visiting a cousin in Nunney, near Frome, when she went to hear a female preacher. Motcombe was visited by PMs, including Ruth Watkins, in the spring of 1826. By the end of November her brothers and cousins were converted. Mary Anna Elizabeth soon followed and joined a class led by a lady, who had been a WM. She became a local preacher (September 1827) and first acted as a travelling preacher (1827-1830) when her brother, John (1806-1875), a travelling preacher, became ill. Then, in 1831, she became an itinerant preacher in her own right. Mary Anna Elizabeth married Richard Cordingley (1808-1888), a fellow travelling preacher (Midsummer 1834) and virtually continued her own work alongside him, although not listed on the Stations. When the health of both failed, they retired in Lancaster (1859). She died on Tuesday 7th April 1868, survived by her husband and children. The 1840 records show that they had 3 children at that time. According to her husband’s obituary there were 12 children, of whom 7 were still alive in 1888. The 1881 census lists him as aged 72, born at Shipley, widowed and living with his two unmarried daughters, Elizabeth (36), housekeeper and Martha (32) a dressmaker at 7 Marshall Houses, Lancs.
Stations
1831 Hopton Bank
1833 Shefford
1831 Hopton Bank (half)
Ludlow (half)
Obituary 
PM Mag. (1868) pp. 534-35
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MORTON, Ruth

Ruth came from Bradwell, Derbyshire, where the Mortons were a well known family in the area. Ruth probably acted as a hired local preacher, as she is listed (1828 and 1829) among the ministers in Bradwell Ancient and Modern, and this was before her name appeared on the Stations. She was pledged by the Sheffield Circuit in 1830.
Stations
1830 Mansfield
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MOSS, Frances

Nothing further is known of her.
Stations
1822 Loughborough
1823 Darlaston (2 years) [?]
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