Background
Hester Ann Roe was born in Macclesfield at the end of January in 1756.
Hester Ann Roe was born in Macclesfield at the end of January in 1756.
She had a strict but caring upbringing. He was one of John Wesley"s Methodist itinerant preachers. She was a Methodist class leader and one her students was Agnes Bulmer.
Hester visited the sick.
They both then went to evangelise in Ireland. Rogers died in Birmingham in 1794.
After her death, a sermon entitled The Character and Death of Mistress Hester Ann Rogers was published which presents Hester Rogers" life as a role model for female Methodists.
By 1876 it had been reworked into a Methodist tract.