Author: Waring, Jeremiah
Biography:
WARING, Jeremiah (1757-1829: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 4 Apr. 1757 at Godalming, Surrey, the fourth of at least nine children of Elijah Waring, surgeon, and his wife Sarah Snashall, Quakers, who had married at Brighton in 1749. Nothing is known of his education. He married Lettice Miller (1752-93) on 5 June 1783 at the Ringwood and Fordingbridge Meeting House, Hampshire, with his occupation given as draper from Alton, Hants. They had two sons and two daughters. His eldest son, Elijah (1787-1857), moved to Wales where he edited the Cambrian Visitor (1813), and his granddaughter Anna Letitia Waring (1823-1910) became well known for her hymns. Two other children, Sarah (1791-1878) and Samuel Miller (1792-1827) (qq.v.) are noticed separately. As variously clothier, mercer, woolstapler, and chapman, he dissolved three partnerships in 1800, 1804, and 1809, before undergoing bankruptcy proceedings 1811-1. He somehow seems to have satisfied his creditors. He died on 27 Nov. 1829 at Alton, leaving an unadministered estate valued at a little over £300. Two other works are attributed to him by Joseph Smith: a school book, Exercises in Scripture Knowledge; Designed for the Use of Schools, as well as Families (Newbury nd) and the unusual Three Letters Addressed to the Readers of Paine’s Age of Reason (London 1797). (ancestry.co.uk 14 Jul. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 14 Jul. 2022; Friends’ Books 2: 858-9; Darton; London Gazette [various issues 1800-1812]) AA
Other Names:
- J. Waring