"Mother” Ann Lee (1736-1784) was born to a family of poor English Quakers in Manchester. Baptised at age six in what is now the Anglican Manchester Cathedral, she went through several jobs growing up, and was forced by her father to marry; she had four children, all of whom died in infancy. She claimed then to receive a revelation from God that sex of any kind was evil. Sin could be purged by its renunciation and a kind of worship that required shaking, trembling and dancing – this led to her followers being called “Shakers”.