Her father died in 1642 and her mother quickly married Thomas Hamner in order that her children would have a protector.
[1] With the outbreak of the English Civil War that year between the supporters of King Charles and Parliament, Hanmer, a royalist, fortified the mansion, which formed a valuable strategic stronghold close to Shrewsbury.
Margaret's mother, Mary Hamner, managed to recover both her children and the castle in order that her son Francis Charlton could become its heir in 1656 or 1657 when he married.
The following year Margaret and Richard Baxter married in September at St Benet Fink church in what is now Threadneedle Street.
Baxter recorded his regard for his wife's steadfastness and his biographer suspects[1] that she may have had a hand in his book A Christian Directory.