The famous mother of John and Charles was born in a still-standing house at the end of Spital Yard off Spital Square (marked by a plaque). Her father, the Rev. Samuel Annesley, was a Nonconformist minister ejected from his living at St Giles, Cripplegate in 1662. She gave up Nonconformity in 1689 and married Samuel Wesley, an ordained deacon and then priest in the Church of England. She combined intelligence with a disciplined piety and a loving Christian character, and she undertook the early education of each of her children at home. In her last years she lived with John at the Foundry Chapel. An impressive tombstone marks her grave in Bunhill Fields Burying Ground. It is said that her influence on John and Charles had much to do with the character of early Methodism.