Sarah Wesley [SEP] father
Sarah Wesley
Sarah Wesley, Gwynne, also known as Sally Wesley (1726 – 28 December 1822) was the wife of itinerant Methodist Charles Wesley, brother of John Wesley, the main founder of Methodism. The daughter of a wealthy family, Wesley once performed musically for George III and passed this talent onto two of her sons, both of whom were musical prodigies.
Life.
Sarah Wesley was born in Garth, Powys to Sarah (née Evans) and Marmaduke Gwynne. Marmaduke was a wealthy man and a
intercourse, precluding any civil or religious ceremony, but after a scandalous delay he married Charlotte Louise Martin in 1793, and they had three children. This marriage broke up with Charlotte's discovery of Samuel's affair with the teenaged domestic servant Sarah Suter. Samuel and Sarah never married but had four children together, among them Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810–1876) who was a cathedral organist and notable composer.
In 1784, Wesley privately converted to Roman Catholicism, to the dismay of his uncle John Wesley. His hymnodist father expressed