Wigham, John, 1749-1839
John Wigham was a British Quaker minister. He was born to William Wigham (-1777) and his wife Rachel Teasdale Wigham (about 1722-1813) at Hargill House in Cornwood, Northumberland, on the 3rd of May, 1749 (new style). At the age of 16 he began associating with the family's servants, and his father, seeing their merriment as a threat to Wigham's spiritual life, encouraged him to find a wife in the hopes that a good marriage would put him on a better path. Around 1769 he married Elizabeth Donwiddy (about 1748-1827), and this separated him from the company his family saw as so undesirable.
Wigham first appeared in the ministry around the age of 24. As a minister he visited meetings in various parts of England. About the year 1783 he felt a divine leading to leave his home and live in Scotland, so in 1784 he and his family moved to a small dairy farm outside of Edinburgh. Two years later, again under the impression of a religious duty, he moved to Aberdeen, where he opened a small grocery store. After two more years, in 1788, he left Aberdeen and took a small farm in Kinmuck, and this was his home for a number of years when he was not absent on relgious journeys. Wigham and his wife (also a minister) found that the Society of Friends in Scotland did not meet their standards for Quaker practice and worked to put it on what they saw as surer footing.
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