Author: Worth, Anne
Biography:
WORTH, Anne, formerly SADLER (1776-1813: ancestry.co.uk)
She was born on 4 Feb. 1776 and baptised at St. Alkmund, Shrewsbury, on 10 Apr., the youngest daughter of Joseph Sadler and his wife Mary Knowles, who had married in 1763. Her father died when she was young; her mother took on the task of her education. Initially fond of fashion, dress, dancing, and card parties, she came under the influence of her local vicar the Rev. Richard de Courcy (1743-1803), a man with Methodist sympathies, who convinced her of the impropriety of her conduct and encouraged her to seek for mercy as a lost sinner. She did so and became a rather dour and humourless teacher in boarding schools and a member of the Methodist Society in Shrewsbury. She then became governess in the family of Sir Andrew Corbet and was noted for her lack of light-heartedness. She married the Methodist preacher William Worth on 30 Jul. 1811 at Shrewsbury and they went to Wrexham, Wales, where she taught Sunday School and was appointed district visitor. They then moved to Burslem, Staffordshire, where she died of consumption on 4 Apr. 1813. Her son, Henry William, died nearly two months later. Her husband published her poems and prefixed a spiritual narrative account of her life. (ancestry.co.uk 8 Jul. 2021; William Worth, "Experience of Mrs Worth," Poems, Moral and Sacred [i]-xix; Staffordshire Advertiser 10 Apr. 1813) AA
Other Names:
- Mrs. Anne Worth