Author: Polglase, Ann Eaton
Biography:
POLGLASE, Ann Eaton, later MOORE (1803-65: ancestry.co.uk)
She was born on 24 March 1803 at Helstone, Cornwall, the daughter of John Polglase (1768-1838), a Quaker shopkeeper and merchant, and his wife Ann Ring (1777-1843). Her sister, Loveday (1804-1822) died from consumption and was the subject of a spiritual memoir by her mother, Some Account of the Religious Exercises and Last Illness of Loveday Polglase (1823). Her own volume The Shipwreck; a Tale of Arabia (1827) also contained almost a hundred short lyric meditations. For reasons unknown, she moved to Preston where she advertised the opening of a Friends’ school in 1835. She also proposed opening a Friends’ school at Woodside, near Liverpool. She later embraced Congregational beliefs and was baptised at Cannon Street Independent, Preston, on 28 Nov. 1836. By 1841 she had moved to Manchester and was recorded as a teacher, living with her mother on Burlington Street. She married William Moore, a coal merchant and sometime missionary, on 23 Aug. 1842, at Manchester Cathedral. Her mother died the following year. In 1851 she was still living in Manchester with her husband and young son but by 1861 she was living as a lodger with her occupation recorded as retired governess. She seems to have returned to Bristol in her final years and died from a heart attack on 14 Nov. 1865 at Worcester Villa, Catherine Place, Bristol. (ancestry.co.uk 23 Jul. 2020; findmypast.co.uk 23 Jul. 2020; Preston Chronicle 27 Dec. 1834; Bristol Mercury 17 Feb. 1838, 18 Nov. 1865; Bristol Times 4 Feb. 1843) AA
Other Names:
- A. E. P.
- Ann E.Polglase