IMary Anning was born May,21,1799 in Lyme Regis, Dorset,united kingdom. The town lies Lyme Bay, on England Channel coast at the Dorset-Devon border. The nickname “ The Pearl of Dorset. Her education was extremely limited. She was able to attend a congregationalist Sunday school where learner to read and write. Congregationalist doctrine, unlike that of the Church of England at the time. Her prized possession was a bound volume of the Dissenter’s Theological Magazine and Review, in which the family's pastor, the Reverend James Wheaton, had published two essays. Their father Richard often took Mary and Joseph her brother on fossil-expeditions to make more money for the family. The family continued collecting and selling fossils together,
