She sought to promote education in Wales at a time when the common people were hardly aware of the need of it. She became an able Sunday school teacher, and throughout her life was an active and faithful supporter of literary and temperance societies. From the beginning, she had been anxious to become a teacher and, after years of preparation and unshakable perseverance, succeeded in gaining admission to the British and Foreign School Society's Training College, London, March 1847. After a highly satisfactory course there she was, in Oct. 1847, appointed a mistress at the Society's school at Ruthin. In Jan. 1849 she was transferred to Bangor to start the British school at Garth, where she laboured successfully for six years. In 1850 she m. John Edmunds [1815-1886, b. at S. Davids], headmaster of the Garth school and, before that, of the Ruthin school. They had two sons. She d. 22 March 1858 [he afterwards set up in business at Caernarvon, and d. there 10 March 1886].