Frances Mary Dennis (b 1874) was accepted as a Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary in 1897. She served in Southern Nigeria and was stationed at Onitsha, Ugboke and Owerri. She had two brothers and a sister who were also CMS missionaries, Thomas, Edward and Ellen. Her fiance, Rev Charles Geoffrey Hensley, also a CMS missionary, died in 1901. Frances resigned from missionary service in 1909 on her marriage to Rev. Stephen Hensley, a clergyman.
Reference: Register of missionaries (clerical, lay & female) and native clergy from 1804 to 1904 ( (Church Missionary Society, 1905)).
From the guide to the Letters, Journals and Other Papers of Frances Dennis, 1897-1950, (University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department)
