Francis Truscott was ordained Minister at the early age of 20 and by the time he came to Worcester had already served on Methodist preaching circuits in Wales and Chester. For five years he had no opportunity to visit his parents and went from chapel to chapel on horseback. On one occasion ‘the snow was so deep and the lanes filled up with it, that I was obliged to lead my horse over the gates that crossed the road.’
‘I was yet a young traveller,’ he goes on to say,’ and not very much on my guard to preserve my constitution.’ Like young men everywhere he felt tough and ready to take life in his stride. ‘I had to sleep in some beds and rooms not often occupied except by preachers. A little care in our friends to keep their beds well aired and dry and a little more care on our part not to put sheets about us which are damp or doubtful ‘ He survived the resulting asthmatic condition and in forty years ‘never had a doctor’s bill for myself.’
1792 he returned to the West Country where he married Martha Melhuish from Mevagissey and had two sons, Thomas and Robert. His great, great, great granddaughter now lives in Worcester and herself has a granddaughter Frances and a grandson, Thomas.
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