Letters and photographs of Miss Emilie Stroelin c. 1900-1916

Church Missionary Society.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qk1c8q (corporateBody)

The Church Missionary Society was founded in 1799 by a small group of laymen and clergy of the Church of England. It was originally named the Society for Missions to Africa and the East. Its purpose was to enable the Church to send missionaries to Africa and other heathen areas. Henry M. Stanley, following his discovery of the missionary explorer, David Livingstone, was instrumental in opening the Uganda Mission. His famous letter, published in the Daily Telegraph in 1875, prompted a contributio...

Stroelin, Emilie

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tp2hnn (person)

Emilie Stroelin was born in Germany c.1860 and was formerly a governess. In 1881 she went as a missionary to India under the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society where she was stationed in Meerut (Mirat). In 1904, she transferred to the service of the Church Missionary Society and she continued to work in Meerut Girls Schools until 1916. Reference: Register of missionaries (clerical, lay & female) and native clergy from 1804 to 1904 (Church Missionary Society,...

Stroelin Emilie b c 1860

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bb0h3x (person)

Church of England. Zenana Missionary Society

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vb4x15 (corporateBody)

Amalgamated with Church Missionary Society in 1957. From the description of Records of the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, 1905-1930 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702150476 The Church of England Zenana Missionary Society was founded in 1880 when it separated from the interdenominational Indian Female Normal School Society (founded 1852). Its main aim was to evangelise the women of India by means of normal schools (teacher train...