Mary Stonehouse was a British heiress who was a worker, supporter, and deaconess of the Moravian Church.
12 Facts About Mary Stonehouse
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Mary Stonehouse was adopted as an adult by the church's founder who named her Maria Theresa after his deceased daughter.
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Mary Stonehouse was Wilmot of Adderbury and the Earl of Rochester and Viscount Wilmot of Athlone.
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Mary Stonehouse was a landowner and he died in 1728.
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In 1739 she married George Stonehouse who had been a Church of England minister.
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Mary Stonehouse had been the vicar of Islington who had employed Charles Wesley as his de facto curate.
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Mary Stonehouse's family owned the rights to appoint vicars in Islington and the year following his marriage he resigned as vicar and sold the rights to appoint his replacements.
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Mary Stonehouse was known within the church as Sister Stonehouse or Maria Theresa Stonehouse.
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Mary Stonehouse was still close to Zinzendorf and in the following year she was working in his home.
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Mary Stonehouse had eight children but they all died as children.
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Mary Stonehouse was buried in the Moravian burial ground and in the chapel, there is a memorial plaque that mentions her father and husband.
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Mary Stonehouse left her wealth to her husband but only during his lifetime, after he died, it was to go to the Moravian church.