She took her first service at Sutton on the Hill and was soon preaching across Staffordshire and Derbyshire. At Christmas 1815 she was chosen to be the first Primitive Methodist to preach in Nottingham by Robert Winfield. Winfield was a farmer in the small south Derbyshire village of Ambaston and he was known for evangelising new areas. She had run a "lovefeast" in Ambaston for Winfield where she was persuaded to go on to preach in Chaddesden - soon there was another preaching circuit in Derby.
