Gurney house

Suffolk Pathfinders of Social Progress

By corixus

  • About this Timeline

    About this Timeline
    Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot ((10 May 1727 – 18 March 1781) was a major political and intellectual figure in pre-revolutionary France. He was a man of wide-ranging intellectual interests and is considered to be a symbol or exemplar of the Enlightenment. He is placed at the beginning of this timeline because his lifetime saw the development of modern ideas of social progress.

  • John Gurney born

    Father of Elizabeth and Joseph John. Became a Norwich Banker (Gurney's Bank)
    Gurney Family

  • Richard Garrett: Arrived Leiston

    Acquired a blacksmith's shop and a forge. Richard was the fourth of 7 generations of Richard Garretts who were an iron-working family, associated with Woodbridge and Wickham Market. He had three sons; Richard, Balls and Newson.

  • Elizabeth Gurney born

    Third child of Joseph Gurney and wife Catherine. 'Plain Quakers of the Goat Lane Meeting in Norwich. Born at Gurney Court, Magdalen St Norwich,

  • Elizabeth Gurney at Earlham Court

    Family rent Earlham Court where her mother dies in 1792

  • Joseph John Gurney born

    Brother of Elizabeth Gurney

  • Elizabeth Gurney teaches Sunday School

    Diary entry ' I do not know if I shall not soon be rather religious. Elizabeth starts a Sunday School and begins to visit the sick.

  • Elizabeth Gurney turns to God

    ISays 'I have felt there is a God' after hearing a lecture by William Savery

  • Elizabeth Gurney becomes a plain Quaker

    Questions her right to enjoy 'artificial things'. In Coalbrookdale Deborah Derby a preacher speaks to her about becoming 'a light to the blind, speech to the dumb and feet to the lame'. Recieves a proposal of marriage from Joseph Fry, a Plain Quaker.

  • Elizabeth Gurney marries

    Marries Joseph Fry at Norwich Goats Lane Meeing House. Between1801 and1816 she bears 10 children whilst living in London. She is ill during all the pregnancies. Joseph becomes a banker.

  • Elizabeth Fry a workhouse visitor

    Appointed by Friends of Gracechurch St Meeting as a visitor to school and workhouse in Islington

  • Elizabeth Fry 's last child

    Elizabeth's last child, Samuel, known as Gurney is born

  • Marriage of Newson Garrett

    Married Louisa Dunnell. Elizabeth was their second child.

  • Marriage of Elizabeth Garrett

    Marriage of Elizabeth Garrett
    She was age 35 when the marriage took place at Scottish Presbytarian Church Upper George St London