Papers [manuscript]. 1847-1898.

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Papers [manuscript]. 1847-1898.

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Photocopies of material obtained through the Australian Joint Copying Project. Includes writings on the early history of missions to the South Sea Islands, the first with particular reference to missions and missionaries, with special reference to the Rev. Charles Barff. The second is a copied manuscript on the life of Mr T. Blossom, written about 1847.

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London missionary society

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Rev. Joseph King served in Samoa, 1863-1872. Rev. Harry Dauncey settled at Port Moresby in 1888, and Delena, 1893. Rev. Archibald Hunt was appointed to Samoa, 1890, and worked in Port Moresby, from 1894 to 1902. Rev. John Holmes settled at Orokolo, Papua, in 1897, in 1904 was at the Purari Delta, Papua and settled at Urika in 1906. Rev. Benjamin Butcher arrived at Torres Straits Mission, 1905, and was appointed to Aird Hill, Papua, 1912. Rev. Harold Short, was appointed to Boku, Papua, in 1921. ...

Australian Joint Copying Project

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The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) was established in 1945 by the signing of an agreement between the Commonwealth National Library and the Public Library of New South Wales to jointly microfilm material in the Public Record Office, London, relating to Australia. The scope of the filming later expanded to include New Zealand, the Pacific, South East Asia and Antarctica. From 1960 filming included private records of Australasian interest throughout the British Isles. The Project ceased i...

Barff, Charles, 1791-1866.

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Blossom, Thomas, 1777-1855

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Richardson, William S.

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William Richardson was born in Lanark, Scotland, on June 18, 1829. He worked in the mines from the age of ten, and after his mother's death moved often, living with his grandmother, father and stepmother, and aunt. In 1849 Richardson was baptized into the Mormon Church by Andrew Farguson (Ferguson). In 1851 he married Ann Walker (also called Joan Fatheringham) in Glasgow, and in 1856 the family left Scotland for the United States, settling in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Richardson worked at various ...