Cheyne Walk; where she took dancing and handcraft lessons run by Josias Priest. In 1688 her father died leaving the family with his debts, which Verney's guardian Ralph Verney (d. 1696) was reticent to pay, and caused a tightening of finances in Molly Verneys household expenses.

By 1690 she had become the heir of the estate, as her mother suffered from what was then called hysteria (most likely bipolar disorder