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List Of Missionaries To The South Pacific
This is a list of missionaries to the South Pacific islands. See also Bible translations into Oceanic languages. Protestant * Charles Scarborough (1927–2002) from England to Gilbert Islands * Samuel Marsden (1765–1838) - from England to Australia * Henry Nott (1774–1844) - from Britain to Tahiti * Thomas Kendall (1778–1832) - from England to New Zealand * Lancelot Edward Threlkeld (1788–1859) - from England to Tahiti and Australia * Henry Williams (1792–1867) - from England to New Zealand * John Williams (1796–1839) - from England to Tahiti and Samoa * Robert Clark Morgan (1798–1864) - ship captain to South Australia, New Hebrides * George Platt (missionary) - from England? to Tahiti and Samoa (not to be confused with George Pratt) * Aaron Buzacott (1800–1864) - from England to Rarotonga * Alfred Nesbitt Brown (1803–1884) - from England to New Zealand * William Gilbert Puckey (1805–1878) - from England to New Zealand * George Augustus Selwyn (1809–1878) - f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bible Translations Into Oceanic Languages
Bible translations into Oceanic languages have a relatively closely related and recent history. Language family Oceanic The Oceanic languages tree also encompasses other languages, such as Fijian. Pama-Nyungan and other Indigenous Australian languages Various Australian Aboriginal languages in the Pama-Nyungan family have partial Bible translations. Some have complete New Testaments and partially-complete Old Testaments too, including Arrernte, Pitjantjatjara, Warlpiri, Pintupi-Luritja, Tiwi, Torres Strait Creole and Yolŋgu Matha. However, only one of them has a complete Bible translation (Old and New Testaments); Australian Kriol, a creole language spoken by almost 40,000 people in parts of the Northern Territory and the Kimberley region of Western Australia, which took 25 years to complete. It was completed in 2019. Polynesian The following is a simplified version of the language tree of Polynesian languages showing only the major languages: * Tongic: ** Tongan ** Niu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Powell (botanist)
Thomas Powell (18 June 1817 – 6 April 1887) was a British missionary sent by the London Missionary Society (LMS) in 1844 to Samoa where he remained for 43 years. He was interested in botany, zoology and anthropology and was elected as a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. During his time on the islands he recorded details of flora, fauna and the culture of the indigenous people. Samoa mission Thomas Powell was born in Cookham Dean, Berkshire and attended Hackney Theological Academy from 1839. He was ordained 29 May 1844 and left London 6 June 1844 with his wife on the inaugural voyage of the missionary barque ''John Williams''. They arrived on the Samoan island of Tutila 31 January 1845 en route to their posting at Savai'i. Powell had little knowledge of the language at this time so his missionary work was initially limited, but he did have medical knowledge and used this to treat those in need. In 1846 Powell was stationed at Pago Pago and in 1848 he went with John Ged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso
Elizabeth Colenso (; 29 August 1821 – 2 September 1904) was a missionary, teacher and Bible translator in New Zealand. Early life Elizabeth Fairburn was born at the New Zealand Church Missionary Society, Church Missionary Society (CMS) station at Kerikeri, New Zealand, in 1821. She was the daughter of Sarah Tuckwell and her husband, William Thomas Fairburn, William Fairburn. In 1834 William Fairburn and his wife opened a mission station at Puriri, New Zealand, Puriri in the Thames-Coromandel District, Thames district. Their five children, Richard (aged 15), Elizabeth (13), John (11), Edwin (7), and Esther (5), remained at Paihia where they attended the CMS school conducted by Marianne Williams. Life with Colenso Elizabeth became fluent in Māori language, Māori, and in 1840, aged 19 years, was teaching Māori children and young people at her father's mission station at Maraetai. When George Selwyn (bishop of Lichfield), Bishop Selwyn visited the mission, he engaged Elizabeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bambridge
William Samuel Bambridge (24 October 1819 – 1 May 1879) was a school-teacher who accompanied George Augustus Selwyn and William Charles Cotton in the Te Waimate mission, New Zealand, before returning to England where he became photographer to Queen Victoria. Three of his sons became England international footballers. Career Bambridge was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England, the second son of George White Bambridge and his second wife, Harriet. His father was a professional flautist whose first wife had died within two years of their marriage. He had three children with Harriet who died in June 1821, shortly after the birth of her third son. George remarried in December 1848 and his third wife, Mary, bore him three children, the last of whom was born in December 1853, when George was 64. George died in September 1860. Missionary William Bambridge married Sophia Thorington at Clewer on 2 November 1841. Bambridge had trained as a teacher and was recruited by Selwyn who ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Wilhelm Schmidt
Reverend Carl Wilhelm Schmidt (died 1864), also known as Karl Schmidt, was a German missionary, and an ordained minister of the Prussian United Church. Schmidt's missionary work took him to Queensland and Samoa, where he founded a number of Lutheran institutions and settlements. Early life Schmidt was born in Stargard, Pomerania (now Poland). He studied at the Universities of Halle and Berlin, before becoming the first theological student of Johannes Gossner, a minister of the Bethlehem Bohemian Church in Berlin. Gossner was the founder of the ''Evangelical Union for the Spread of Christianity among the Heathen'', and he recommended Schmidt to lead a party of nine missionaries trained for work with a British society. In 1837, Schmidt came to the notice of Rev John Dunmore Lang in Australia, via Samuel Johnson, a friend of Gossner's in London. After being joined by fellow missionary Christopher Eipper in Greenock, Scotland, Schmidt and his party set sail for Australia on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Sylvius Völkner
Carl Sylvius Völkner ( – 2 March 1865) was a German-born Protestant missionary in New Zealand who was hanged and decapitated at his church grounds on the east coast of the North Island in what became known as the Völkner Incident. Biography Völkner was born in the town of Kassel, in the Electorate of Hesse, Germany, around 1819. He was sent to New Zealand by the North German Missionary Society, along with several other missionaries, having received training at the missionary college at Hamburg. He arrived in the country in August 1849 and was sent to Taranaki, to work alongside another German missionary, Johann Riemenschneider. In 1852 Völkner offered his services to the New Zealand Church Missionary Society, Church Missionary Society (CMS). He married Emma Lanfear, sister of a CMS missionary on 29 June 1854. For several years he worked as a lay teacher in the lower Waikato and in 1857 became a naturalised citizen. Völkner was ordained a deacon in 1860 and the followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Turner (missionary)
George Turner (1818 – 19 May 1891) was an English missionary, active in Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono an ... and elsewhere in the South Pacific. He was the author of Nineteen Years in Polynesia: Missionary Life, Travels, and Researches in the Islands of the Pacific, 1861; and of Samoa A Hundred Years Ago and Long Before, 1884. References * Hiney, Tom. 2000. ''On the Missionary Trail: a journey through Polynesia, Asia and Africa with the London Missionary Society.'' * Turner, George. ''Nineteen Years in Polynesia: Missionary Life, Travels, and Researches in the Islands of the Pacific.'' https://books.google.com/books?id=D7Ltq-fdtBMC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false English Congregationalist missionaries Congregationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pratt (missionary)
George Pratt (1817–1894) was a missionary with the London Missionary Society who lived in Samoa for forty years from 1839 to 1879, mostly on the island of Savai'i. Pratt was from Portsea, Portsmouth in England. He also served in Niue, the Loyalty Islands and New Guinea. In Samoa, Pratt lived at a mission station in Avao Matautu on the north coast of Savai'i island. First Samoan Bible (1860) and dictionary (1862) Pratt was the first person to document the Samoan language. He authored the first grammar and dictionary of the language, ''A Grammar and Dictionary of the Samoan Language, with English and Samoan Vocabulary'', which was first printed in 1862 at the Samoa Mission Press. Subsequent editions were published in 1876, 1893, and 1911. Reprints have been issued in 1960, 1977, and 1984. In addition, the first Bible in Samoan was mainly the work of Pratt. Indeed, during his "four decades in Samoa ... he worked almost daily on translating the Bible and revising his translation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hardie
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of the Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji. Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesian people. The first Europeans to visit the islands were a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Fernandes de Queirós, who arrived on the largest island, Espíritu Santo, in 1606. Queirós claimed the archipelago for Spain, as part of the colonial Spanish East Indies, and named it . In the 1880s, France and the United Kingdom claimed parts of the archipelago, and in 1906, they agreed on a framework for jointly managing the archipelago as the New Hebrides through an Anglo-French condominium. An independence movement arose in the 1970s, and the Republic of Vanuatu was fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Geddie (missionary)
John Geddie (10 April 1815 – 14 December 1872) was a Scots-Canadian missionary who was known as "the father of Presbyterian missions in the South Seas."Eugene Myers Harrison, ''John Geddie: Messenger of the Love of Christ in Eastern Melanesia''. Chicago, Ill.: Scripture Press Book Division, 1949. Summarised in the following website: http://www.wholesomewords.org/missions/bgeddie.html He pioneered missionary work in the New Hebrides islands, now known as Vanuatu. He became Doctor of Divinity in 1866. On December 14, 1872, he died in Geelong, Australia. Early life John Geddie (1815–1872) was born in Banff, Scotland, April 10, 1815. His father, a watch and clock maker, was a devout member of the Presbyterian Church. In 1816, his family emigrated and settled in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada. After completing education at grammar school and later the Pictou Academy, he entered upon the study of theology. When his health failed he faced the prospect of having to give up the min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octavius Hadfield
Octavius Hadfield (6 October 1814 – 11 December 1904) was Archdeacon of Kapiti, Bishop of Wellington from 1870 to 1893 and Primate of New Zealand from 1890 to 1893. He was a member of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) for thirty years. He was recognised as an authority on Māori customs and language. His views on Māori rights, expressed in several books strongly criticised the actions of the New Zealand Government. Hadfield married Catherine (Kate) Williams (24 February 1831 – 8 January 1902) a daughter of the Rev. Henry Williams and Marianne Williams. Background He was born into an affluent family but often had very poor health and nearly died on several occasions. He received an excellent university education but did not finish his degree due to ill health. As a member of a wealthy family he was able to tour though Europe. Normally, lack of a degree would have prevented him being ordained but he was able to secure a position in New Zealand. Church ministry He joined th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
