Correspondence, 1890-1942 [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 2446561
- Format:
- Manuscript and Microform
- Author:
- South Sea Evangelical Mission
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference.
- Description:
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- Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [2001]
- 5 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
- Series:
- PMB ; 1150.
- Summary:
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General correspondence, 1890-1925, and Island Council matters, 1928-1950; together with letters-in from the following missionaries: Frederick Daniels, 1911; Jessie Deck, 1911; A. Hedley Abbott, 1913; Violet Sullivan, 1916-1941; Norman Deck, 1917-1942; Robert & May McBride, 1920-1941; M. Clark, 1924; H.J. Waite, 1924-1941; Miss Drummond, 1927-1931; Alan Neil, 1927-1938; Lilian Drewett, 1927-1937; David Humphries, 1927-1932; Lily Waiti, 1929; Mr MacDonald, 1929; Dorothy Read, 1929-1938; John M. Bee, 1930-1934; Robert Vance, 1930-1937; Ken Griffiths, 1930-1938; Joan Deck, 1930-1940 and Andrew Cowie, 1937-1941.
- Biography/History:
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Florence Young commenced mission work among indentured labourers from the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (New Hebrides) on her brothers' sugar plantation and mill, Fairymead, near Bundaberg in Queensland, in the early 1880s. Steeped in the beliefs of the Plymouth Brethren and influenced by the English Keswick Convention, members of the Young, Deck and Grant families established the Queensland Kanaka Mission (QKM) in 1886 and extended it to various centres along the Queensland coast. Converts of the QKM returned to the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu at the turn of the century, among them Peter Ambuofa of North Malaita who appealed to the QKM fo help. Two men from Queensland, Charles Pillans and Fred Schwiegert, came in response. Both died of malaria. Subsequently, in 1904, the QKM formed a Solomon Islands Branch and established a principal station at Onepusu on the west coast of Malaita in 1905. The Mission changed its name to the South Sea Evangelical Mission in 1907.
Its activities were extended to Guadalcanal, Makira and Rennell Island and, after WWII, it commenced operations in the Sepik region in the Territory of New Guinea. (See: Footsteps in the sea : Christianity in Oceania to World War II / John Garrett. 1992. pp. 82-87.)
- Notes:
- Originals held : Centre for the Study of Australian Christianity, Menzies College, Macquarie University, Sydney (PO Box 1505, Macquarie Centre, NSW 2113, Australia).
- Related Material:
- Associated material: additional papers held at NLA Mfm PMB 1046, 1047 and 1048 and 1123.
- Reproduction:
- Microfilm. Balgowlah : W.& F. Pascoe Pty Ltd for Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Australian National University : 1998. 5 microform reels : positive, 35 mm.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Descriptive list available (2 p.).
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1890-1942
- Occupation:
- Missionaries
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Since 2012 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1942
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