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Persoonlijke gegevens Margaret Smyth 

• Zij is geboren in het jaar 1623 in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
• Geloof: Quaker.
• (Anecdote) : Not much is known about her early life except what has been written in many books about her conversion to Quakerism and her death. The accounts state that "in her youth she was an inquirer after the best people, and joined herself in worship with the most strict and refined profession then in that city" and "she had hungered and thirsted after righteousness." At about 18 years old, she married the 32-year-old Gilbert Molleson on February 11, 1645 in the Saint Nicholas Church in Aberdeen and they had eleven children together, but only nine reached adulthood. By the end of 1662, the Quakers came to Aberdeen and Margaret became one of the first Quakers in Northern Scotland. Her husband did not become a Quaker, but they raised their children as Quakers. In Volume 4 of the book Piety Promoted, it states ". . . although her love to her husband, and cares of her many children, were great, yet her greatest delight and care was, to draw nearer and nearer to the true and living God, the chiefest beloved of her travailing soul." The books go on to talk about the months preceding her death, how her knees were worn from kneeling in prayer, and how she would meditate in prayer during the night. On the morning of December 16, 1669, she became sicker than she had been, and her doctor told her not to fear, that she will not die. She responded to him "Fear, I have no cause; but thou wilt see thou art mistaken." As her condition worsened, her friends and family gathered around her bed and prayed for her healing. She said to them "My advocate is with the Father, and my peace is made: I am feeding at a table none of you perceiveth." She then looked at her 10 year old son Gilbert and told him "Truth is precious; cleave to it." Her last words were "Now interruption is to cease, and my eternal joy is already begun!".
• (Anecdote) : She had two sons and five daughters with Gilbert Molleson..
• Zij is overleden op 16 december 1669 in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, zij was toen 46 jaar oud.
• Zij is begraven in St Nichols Churchyard, Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, Scotland.
• Een kind van Robert Smyth en Christiane Crombie

Gezin van Margaret Smyth

Zij is getrouwd met Gilbert Molleson.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 11 februari 1645 te Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, zij was toen 22 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Gilbert M. Molleson  1645-1683
2. Christian Molleson  1647-1725 
3. Alexander Molleson  1650-1712
4. Margaret Molleson  1653-1697 
5. John Molleson  1662-1732
6. Elsbet Molleson  1661-????

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