Ann Audland, later Ann Camm was born Ann Newby, daughter of Richard Newby, in Kendal and christened in Kendal parish church on 28 October 1627. At the age of 12, she went to live with an aunt in London, where she stayed for about seven years before coming home to Kendal: she then went to York in service with ‘a Family of Great Account in the World, her Mistress a Pious Woman’, on whose death she came back to Kendal. She joined a meeting of Seekers which was sometimes attended by John Audland; about 1650 they married. They were both convinced by George Fox in 1652, and became ministers. Ann travelled in 1653 to Auckland in County Durham, where she was jailed for preaching, but released that night. She was rescued from a bed in the fields by Anthony Pearson, with whom Fox was staying at the time.

The following year she set out with Mabel Camm for Banbury, where she was tried and imprisoned. [MORE] John Audland died in 1663, leaving her with one daughter, and heavily pregnant with a son, John, who was born a few days after his father’s death.

On 30 May 1666, she married Thomas Camm ‘and they Liv’d togther in True Love, serving the Lord, Forty Years wanting Six Months’     [MORE]

She died 30 November 1705, ‘in a good Old Age, being in her Seventy Ninth Year, as a Shock of Corn in Season ... and was Honourably Bury’d, many Ancient Friends of about Thirteen adjacent Meetings Accompany’d her to the Grave, the third of the tenth Month, 1705’.

Further Reading
John Field Piety promoted, being a collection of the dying sayings of many of the people called Quakers. With some memorials of their virtuous lives ... (Dublin: 1721).
The Memory of the Righteous Revived being a brief collection of the books and epistles of John Camm and John Audland edited Thomas Camm and Charles Marshal (London: Andrew Soule, 1689).
‘The First Publishers of Truth’: being early records, now first printed, of the introduction of Quakerism into the counties of England and Wales, edited Norman Penney (Friends Historical Society Journal Supplements 1-5; London: Headley; New York: Taber, 1907).

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