Missionary

Records tagged with Keywords: Missionary

Isobel Smith

Dates: 
1921-1979

She died in Aberdeen in 1979.

Mary Slessor

Other names: 
Full name - Mary Mitchell Slessor.
Dates: 
2 Dec 1848-13 Jan 1915.

Mary Slessor was born in Aberdeen, the daughter of Mary Mitchell and Robert Slessor. The family moved to Dundee in 1859, where Slessor became a half-timer at Baxter's mill. (A half-timer was a child who worked half-time and attended school half-time.) At the age of 14 she was working a 12 hour day at the mill. She applied to become a missionary and went to Calabar, Nigeria, in 1876. She travelled into Nigeria, setting up missions. She adopted unwanted children. She spent 39 years working in Nigeria and died there in 1915.

Images: 
Detail from the Great Tapestry of Scotland
Detail from the Great Tapestry of Scotland
Sources
Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, entry by William Knox.
Wall art in St Nicholas Lane, Aberdeen

Jane Haining

Other names: 
Jane Mathison Haining

Jane Matheson Haining was born at Lochenhead Farm, Dunscore, Dumfriesshire. After education at Dumfries Academy, she worked as a secretary at J. & P. Coats, Paisley, attending the United Free Church, Queen’s Park West, Pollockshields.

She trained in missionary work, travelled to Hungary and became matron in the Girls’ Home of the Jewish Mission Girls’ Home in Budapest. She visited Dunscore for the last time in 1939 and returned to Budapest, against Church of Scotland advice, saying that if the children needed her in days of sunshine, they had much more need of her in days of darkness.

Sources
The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
Based on an entry by Alison Twaddle
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