Alexina Ruthquist (
née McKay, 8 September 1848 – 5 September 1892) was a Scottish missionary.
Life
Ruthquist was born in
Fordyce in
Scotland
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in 1848 as Alexina McKay.
She was named after her mother and her father was the Reverend Murdoch McKay. Her father was based at the Free Church of Scotland in nearby
Rhynie.
[L. E. Lauer]
"Ruthquist , Alexina (1848–1892)"
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 28 October 2016
She served for eleven years in India before she married the Swedish missionary Reverend Johan Ruthquist in October 1866. She left Nagpoor and joined him at the small village of
Amarwara. She lived near her sister Maggie who had also married a Swedish missionary. In November 1889 she gave birth but the child, Mary Juanita, died within two weeks.
She and Maggie decided to bring up an abandoned child called Benjamin. 1892 they opened a dispensary in Amarvara.
She died on 5 September 1892 en route to Sweden on . She was buried in
Suez
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1848 births
1892 deaths
Scottish Protestant missionaries
Protestant missionaries in India
People from Fordyce, Aberdeenshire
Female Christian missionaries