samuel informed his mother of his philosophical conviction that his marriage had been constituted by sexual intercourse, precluding any civil or religious ceremony, but after a scandalous delay he married charlotte louise martin in 1793, and they had three children. this marriage broke up with charlotte's discovery of samuel's affair with the teenaged domestic servant sarah suter. samuel and sarah never married but had four children together, among them samuel sebastian wesley (1810–1876) who was a cathedral organist and notable composer.