George Adam Kissling (3 July 1805 – 9 November 1865) was the second

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, he married Margaret Moxon on 3 July 1837 at

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in 1841 and the following year emigrated to

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to work at the Kawakawa (

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) Mission from 1843 to 1846. George Kissling's ill health resulted in a move to Auckland. George and Margaret Kissling opened a Māori girls boarding school in Kohimarama. He taught students of theology at St John’s College, including

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. In 1859 he was appointed Archdeacon of Waitemata. George Kissling died 9 November 1865.

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