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The 19 children of Susanna & Samuel Wesley

"Mother of Methodism" Susanna Wesley (1669-1742)
Susanna Wesley

Samuel Wesley (1662–1735) was a Church of England clergyman. In 1688 he married Susanna Annesley (who happened to be the 25th of 25 children) and the pair welcomed 19 children of their own.

Ten of those 19 children lived to adulthood. Two, John (#15) and Charles (#18), went on to found the Methodist Church.

Here are the names of (most of) the 19 Wesley siblings:

1. Samuel, nicknamed Sammy
2. Susanna
3. Emilia, nicknamed Emily
4. Annesley (twin)
5. Jedediah (twin)
6. Susanna, nicknamed Sukey
7. Mary, nicknamed Molly
8. Mehetabel, nicknamed Hetty
9. infant
10. John
11. Benjamin
12. infant (twin)
13. infant (twin)
14. Anne, nicknamed Nancy
15. John, nicknamed Jackie
16. infant
17. Martha, nicknamed Patty
18. Charles
19. Kezziah, nicknamed Kezzy/Kez

Now for some fun!

There are four nameless infants (#9, #12, #13 & #16) on the list. If all four had been girls, what do you think their names would have been? What if all four had been boys?

Sources: Memoirs of the Wesley Family, The Family of John and Charles Wesley

Baby name story: Annesley

airplane

In late 1938, Mrs. Dalziel of the Scottish island of Stronsay (part of the archipelago of Orkney) went into labor.

To give birth, she was flown to a hospital in Orkney’s largest town, Kirkwall, which is located on a different island.

Two weeks later, she and her baby were flown home by the same airplane pilot — Capt. John Annesley Hankins.

In honor of that pilot, she named her baby Doreen Annesley.

Source: “Baby Named for Flyer.” Evening Star [Washington D.C.] 24 Nov. 1938: A-12.

Image: Adapted from Air Canada Boeing 777-333ER by MarcusObal under CC BY-SA 3.0.