Author: Jordan, Judith
Biography:
JORDAN, Judith, formerly Styche (b c. 1700 d 1783: Steadman)
She was a daughter of a farmer, William Styche (d 1727) of Lutwyche, Shropshire, and his wife, Judith (d 1729). Her husband, Jeremiah Jordan (1695-1768), whom she married at Lutwyche sometime in the 1720s, was born at Rushbury, Shropshire, on a farm called “the Gilberies.” Six of their seven children were girls. Originally a member of the Baptist church at Shrewsbury, she experienced a religious conversion in 1723. In the 1760s, she and her husband became first-generation Methodists and occasional lay preachers. She died at Ludlow in 1783 and was buried in the churchyard of Leominster Baptist church. Her grandson the Rev. John Palmer of Shrewsbury edited her poems for publication. (J. Jordan, The Religious Breathings and Exercises of a Mind, memoir by J. Palmer [1809], vi-ix; T. Steadman, Memoir of the Rev. William Steadman [1838], 2-3) JC
Other Names:
- Judith
- wife of Jeremiah Jordan