Priscilla (Buxton) Johnston (1808 - 1852)

Born 25 Feb 1808 in Earlham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Wife of Andrew Johnston — married 1 Aug 1834 (to 1852) in Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, England

Died 18 Jun 1852 at age 44 in Halesworth, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Priscilla was a Friend (Quaker)

Priscilla (Buxton) Johnston is Notable.

Priscilla Buxton (1808–1852) was the daughter of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton and Hannah Gurney

She married Andrew Johnston on the 1st of August 1834 (the day that the majority of slaves in the British Empire were legally freed) in Trinity Church, Marylebone, London.

She was a British slavery abolitionist. She was co-secretary of the London Female Anti-Slavery Society. In 1833 a petition of 187,000 women's signatures were presented to parliament to end slavery. The first two names were Amelia Opie and Priscilla Buxton.

She died aged 44 on the 18th of June 1852 at Halesworth, Suffolk, England.

Wilberforce letter

On July 5, 1822, abolitionist William Wilberforce wrote a letter to Priscilla, who was then fourteen. The following excerpt from his letter points to his grief and hope in the months following his daughter Barbara's death. In February 2016, Priscilla's great-great-great-granddaughter Rachel Meynell rediscovered the letter in a box in her parents' attic.^[1]

Now therefore accustom yourself to think "the Scene around me is gloomy and darksome," but a friendly and, that a divine, Hand of a kind and loving Saviour, is leading me on the Way He sees best for me, & in His own good time He will bring me into the Light. As I know He is Truth itself, he cannot deceive me & He has promised to be a Shepherd full of kindness as well as Care to the Lambs of His flock. He would not let me suffer pain if He were not persuaded it would be for my benefit and I will therefore receive all and submit to it all He orders for me, as that which is sure to be more than made up to me. So that if more I have to bear now, the more I shall have to rejoice hereafter.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.markmeynell.net/2016/02/27/a-sky-unsullied-by-clouds-william-wilberforce-gives-hope-to-a-14-year-old-girl-in-pain/

Wikipedia - Priscilla Buxton

The Peerage.com (F, #665862}

England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841

First name(s) Priscilla

Last name Buxton

Birth year 1808

Birth date 25 Feb 1808

Birth place as transcibed Devonshire House

Birth county as transcribed Middlesex

Father's first name(s) Thos Fowell

Mother's first name(s) Hannah

Meeting place Devonshire House, Houndsditch, London

Monthly meeting Monthly Meeting of Devonshire House, Houndsditch, London - Births.

Quarterly meeting London, Middlesex

County London

Country England

freeBMD Deaths Jun Q 1852 Blything 4a 416 JOHNSTON Priscilla

Press cutting - Shipping and Mercantile Gazette 21 June 1852 Deaths - On the 18th inst., at Halesworth, Priscilla, the wife of Andrew Johnston, Esq., and eldest daughter of the late Sir T Fowell Buxton;, Bart., of Northrepps Hall Norfolk.