read first: Elizabeth Wildman, Quaker Martyr

• http://www.tathamfells.me.uk/

1676

Lancashire, England

"Elizabeth Wildman (mother of Martin, grandmother of John), committed to Lancaster Gaol where she died 9 months later on 3 Jan 1677. "

• Elizabeth was born within a few years of Margaret Fell, the so-called Mother of Quakerism. Both women were jailed for their convictions at Lancaster Castle, though not during overlapping times.

Death

QUAKER MOVEMENT IN LANCASHIRE by B. NIGHTINGALE page 32

1676 : Elizabeth Wildman, widow, about sixty years of age, on a writ de Excommunicate Capiendo at the suit of Thomas Sharp, 1 " priest of Tatham " was sent to Lancaster Castle, where she died after nine months confinement. "

~• There are numerous references to Quaker WIldmans in trouble with the authorities contemporaneous to the death of Elizabeth:

1: In Melling Against Marmaduke Wildman, pretended School master for teaching school, reading prayers and marrying being not in orders, nor licensed.

2: 74 QUAKER MOVEMENT IN LANCASHIRE

Tatham (parish)

"Against Joseph Ward, Anne Ward, Martin Wildman, John Wildman, James Wildman, Eliz. Wildman, John Prestley, mort., Margt his pretended wife, John Hodgson and Catherine his pretd. wife, Geo Hathornthwaite, Marmaduke Tatham and Frances his wife, Francis, Robert, James, John and Alice their children, Gregory Cockram, Ric. Fletcher and Margt his wife and Eh z. Brogdin, Quakers. "

{~• note also: John "Prestley" may be the same or related to the John Priestley of Tatham Parish records.

Thornton parish

Against Geoffrey Wildman and Agnes his wife, Thomas Addison and Rebecca his wife, John Topham, Agnes Outhwaite, reputed Quakers. < note: Elizabeth (of this profile) was baptized in Thornton-in-Lonsdale (the same locale as Ingleton)

Possible association with Margaret Fell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fell "In 1664 Margaret Fell was arrested for failing to take an oath and for allowing Quaker Meetings to be held in her home. She defended herself by saying that "as long as the Lord blessed her with a home, she would worship him in it". She spent six months in Lancaster Gaol, whereafter she was sentenced to life imprisonment and forfeiture of her property. She remained in prison until 1668, during which time she wrote religious pamphlets and epistles. Perhaps her most famous work is "Women's Speaking Justified", a scripture-based argument for women's ministry, and one of the major texts on women's religious leadership in the 17th century.[5] In this short pamphlet, Fell bases her argument for equality of the sexes on the basic premises of Quakerism that is spiritual equality. Her belief was that God created all human beings, therefore both men and women were capable of not only possessing the Inner Light but also the ability to be a prophet."

Tatham

& St. James the Less - http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Tatham/index.html

History of the area: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol8/pp217-225

References

1. http://www.lancastercastle.com/the-quakers-of-lancaster-castle in which Elizabeth is mentioned
2. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol8/pp186-191#anchorn6
3. https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61630/
4. geology of the region
5. Alfred Cook Myers's book see page 12 for beginnings of the Quaker faith in the North of England