Editing Charles Wesley (section)

===Marriage and children===
[[File:Charles Wesley (4368240967).jpg|thumb|right|Plaque in Marylebone commemorating the site of Wesley's house (now a pub)]]
In April 1749, he married the much younger [[Sarah Wesley|Sarah Gwynne]] (1726–1822), also known as Sally.<ref name=Cheetham2003 />{{rp|95–97}} She was the daughter of [[Marmaduke Gwynne]], a wealthy [[Wales|Welsh]] magistrate who had been converted to Methodism by [[Howell Harris]].<ref name="Barry141_146">{{Cite book | last=Barry | first=Joseph | editor1-last=Temperley | editor1-first=Nicholas |editor2-last=Banfield | editor2-first=Stephen | title=Music and the Wesleys | publisher=University of Illinois Press | location=Urbana | year=2010 | pages=141–146 | isbn=978-0-252-07767-8}}</ref> They moved into a [[Charles Wesley's House|house at 4 Charles Street in Bristol]] in September 1749.<ref name="Vickers2008"/><ref name=Cheetham2003 />{{rp|95–97}} Sarah accompanied the brothers on their journeys throughout Britain until at least 1753.

In 1771, Wesley obtained another house in London and moved into it that year with his elder son. By 1778 the whole family had transferred from Bristol to the London house, at 1 Great Chesterfield Street (now Wheatley Street), [[Marylebone]],<ref name="Barry141_146"/> where they remained until Wesley's death and on into the 19th&nbsp;century.<ref name="Forsaith161_162">{{Cite book | last=Forsaith | first=Peter S. | editor1-last=Temperley | editor1-first=Nicholas |editor2-last=Banfield | editor2-first=Stephen | title=Music and the Wesleys | publisher=University of Illinois Press | location=Urbana | year=2010 | pages=161–162 | isbn=978-0-252-07767-8}}</ref> The house in Bristol still stands and has been restored,<ref name=Cheetham2003 />{{rp|95–97}} however the London house was demolished in the mid 19th&nbsp;century.<ref name="Forsaith161_162"/>

Only three of the couple's children survived infancy: [[Charles Wesley junior]] (1757–1834), Sarah Wesley (1759–1828), who like her mother was also known as Sally, and [[Samuel Wesley (composer, born 1766)|Samuel Wesley]] (1766–1837).<ref name="Temperley_ix_xv">{{Cite book | last=Temperley | first=Nicholas | editor1-last=Temperley | editor1-first=Nicholas |editor2-last=Banfield | editor2-first=Stephen | title=Music and the Wesleys | publisher=University of Illinois Press | location=Urbana | year=2010 | pages=ix–xv | isbn=978-0-252-07767-8}}</ref> Their other children, John, Martha Maria, Susannah, Selina and John James are all buried in Bristol, having died between 1753 and 1768. (See monument in garden on north side of junction of Lewis Mead and The Haymarket, Bristol.) Both Samuel and Charles junior were musical [[child prodigies]] and, like their father, became [[organist]]s and composers. Charles junior spent most of his career as the personal organist of the Royal Family, and Samuel became one of the most accomplished musicians in the world and is often called "the English Mozart".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Blain |first1=Andrea |last2=Young |first2=Alison |title=Learning to Listen: Samuel Wesley, 'the English Mozart' |url=https://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2016/02/22/learning-to-listen-samuel-wesley-the-english-mozart |website=www.classicalmpr.org |date=22 February 2016 |access-date=1 February 2021}}</ref> Samuel Wesley's son, [[Samuel Sebastian Wesley]], was one of the foremost British composers of the 19th&nbsp;century.<ref name="Temperley_ix_xv"/>