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Mitchell (family)
Family

The Mitchell family served as missionaries from the Presbyterian Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada to India and China in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.

Albright (family)
Family · 1888-1960

The Albrights were a Methodist/United Church family in Beamsville, Ontario. Charles Raymond Albright was born 1888 March 26 in South Cayuga. His parents were Josiah D. Albright and Sarah Moyer. He grew up in Beamsville, Ontario. In June 1917, he was ordained into the ministry of the Methodist Church. He retired in June 1952 and returned to Beamsville. His wife was Jean Little Wright. Other family members were his brother F.S. Albright (Fred), killed at Passchaendale in 1917, his brother W.D. Albright (Don) and his sister Mrs. Roy Hobden (Margaret). Before his death in 1960, Rev. Albright gave to The United Church of Canada a piece of property in Beamsville. This property later became the location for Albright Gardens, a community for retired United Church personnel.

Bowslaugh (family)
Family

The Bowslaugh family was a Methodist family in Ontario. Peter Bowslaugh (1756-1848) was a lay preacher on the Ancaster Circuit.

Burbidge (family)
Family

Wilfrid Arnold Burbidge and Pearl Anderson United Church missionaries to Korea. Wilfrid Arnold Burbidge was born in Nova Scotia in 1897. He was educated at Mount Allison and Victoria College (earning the degrees B.A. and B.D.), and ordained as a Methodist minister. He was sent to Korea by the Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board of The United Church of Canada, where he was effective in religious as well as agricultural improvement. He was evacuated in 1941, and served the Scotland Pastoral Charge and Grace United Church, Hamilton. He retired to Toronto in 1967, and continued to serve, first as hospital chaplain at Riverdale Hospital, and then as the first minister of the Korean United Church. Wilfrid Arnold Burbidge died in 1978. Pearl Anderson was born at Westmeath, Ontario on January 13, 1900. She was educated at the Normal School in North Bay and the Presbyterian Deaconess Training School in Toronto. In 1923, Pearl Anderson was appointed to Korea by the Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church. In 1926, she resigned to marry Rev. Wilfrid Arnold Burbidge. Mrs. Burbidge died in 1997.

Ferguson (family)
Family · 1875-1960

James Young Ferguson and Harriet Ferguson were Presbyterian missionaries to Formosa. James Young Ferguson was born in 1875. He studied arts, theology and medicine at Queen's University. He was ordained in 1905, and sent to northern Formosa (Taiwan) by the Presbyterian Church. The founder and first superintendent of Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei, completed in 1912, he returned to Canada in 1919 due to poor health. He was chief of staff and chief surgeon at Toronto East General Hospital for eighteen years, after which he turned to private practice. He died in 1965. Harriet Ferguson was married to James Young Ferguson. She served as a teacher at the Formosa mission between 1905 and 1919. Harriet Ferguson died in 1960.

Glaves (family)
Family

Harry Glaves was born in 1908 and graduated from Smithville High School in 1928. He worked for Bell Canada for 35 years, retiring in 1968. Margery Glaves was born Margery Doris Hughes in 1908. She attended St. James Collegiate (Winnipeg), Sarnia Collegiate and Alma College, Sarnia. She worked as a clerk-typist and stenographer. In 1968, Harry and Margery Glaves went to Zambia as missionaries, where Harry Glaves worked as a hospital administrator until 1976

Hockin (family)
Family

The Hockin Family included Arthur Hockin, his son Arthur, Jr., his daughter-in-law Lily Hockin [nee Howie], and their daughter, Katharine. The three eldest served the Methodist Church of Canada, Arthur as a minister in Nova Scotia, his son and son's wife as missionaries in China. Katharine Hockin served as a missionary in China, and as an educator in Canada. Lily [Howie] Hockin was a daughter of the manse, her father Isaac was a Methodist minister in New Brunswick, and her sister, Jessie Howie, was a missionary in Japan with that church.

Stephenson (family)
Family

Frederick Clark Stephenson (1864-1941) was the secretary of young people's foreign missions groups in the Methodist and United Church. He was born near Bowmanton, Ontario. After studying at Albert College, Belleville and Trinity Medical College, Toronto, he applied to work in foreign missions. He began his work as organizer of the Student Missionary Campaign in 1894 and then became the first and only Secretary of the Young People's Forward Movement for Missions, 1906 to 1925, and of the Young People's Missionary Education Committee from 1925 to 1936. Annie Devina Watson (1862-1939) worked in missions as editor, writer, teacher, and speaker. She married F.C. Stephenson in 1896 and worked in for the above mission organizations as well as the Woman's Missionary Society and the General Board of Missions until her death.

Seymour (family)
Family

James Seymour was born in Ireland and emigrated to Canada in 1858; he served Methodist New Connexion circuits in Ontario until retirement in 1864. From 1874 to 1882 he assisted his son, James Cooke Seymour, in his ministry in Ontario--the junior Seymour retired in 1894. James Cooke Seymour published several books, including Christ, the Apocalypse.

Pescott (family)
Family

Mabel Hardy and Walter Edwin Pescott were married in 1892. As Walter Pescott served as a Methodist and then a United Church minister, the couple served various charges in Ontario: Burlington Plains, Port Colborne, Hamilton, Simcoe, Galt, Toronto, Windsor, London, Kitchener and Orillia, as well as in Winnipeg and Vancouver. They had one daughter, Aleda, born in 1918.

McRae (family)
Family

Duncan and Edith McRae were Presbyterian/United Church missionaries to Korea. Duncan Murdoch McRae was born in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, in 1868. He worked as a blacksmith, then studied at Dalhousie University and Presbyterian College (Pine Hill), Nova Scotia. He was ordained in 1898, and served as a missionary to Korea until his retirement in 1937. He died in 1949. Born in 1875, Edith F. Sutherland married Duncan Murdoch McRae in 1900. She founded a girl's primary school in Hamheung, Korea, and returned with her husband to Baddeck, Nova Scotia, in 1937. She died in 1956.

Jolliffe (family)
Family

Richard Orlando Jolliffe and his younger brother, Charles Julius Pasmore Jolliffe were, along with their families, Methodist and then United Church missionaries to China.

Sanders (family)
Family

Minnie J. Sanders was born Mary Jane Mawhir in Belfast, Ireland, in 1855. She was a missionary of the American Congregational Church to Angola. She arrived in Benguela in 1882 and the same year she married William Henry Sanders. She died in 1891. William Henry Sanders was born in Tillypally, Jaffna, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1856, the son of a missionary. He was educated in Massachussetts, and ordained a Congregational minister in 1880. He embarked for missionary work in Angola later that year, where he served until 1930. He was married to Mary Jane Mawhir, and then Sarah Bell. Rev. Sanders died in 1947.

Gundy (family)
Family

The Gundy family was a New Connexion family from Ireland. The father, William Gundy (1795-1870), and four of the sons, James (1831-1897), John, Samuel Bradley (1833-1873) and Joseph R. (1838-1916) became ministers.

William Gundy (1831-1897) was a Methodist minister in Ontario. The son of Rev. William Gundy, James Gundy was born in Ireland. Received on trial in 1859 and ordained in 1863, he served in Ontario as a Methodist New Connexion, and later Methodist, minister until his retirement in 1894.

Kaye (family)
Family

John Kaye was born in 1838 in Napanee, Ontario. In 1864, he married Eliza Gundy, daughter of Methodist New Connexion minister, William Gundy. John Kaye was ordained as a Methodist New Connexion minister in 1866. He served various circuits in Ontario and died in 1907. John Frederick Kaye was born in Waterdown, Ontario, in 1870. He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1896. In 1901, he was married to Katharine Mennig. He served various churches in Ontario until his retirement in 1934. He died in 1941.

Outerbridge (family)
Family

Leonard and Christena were United Church missionaries to China. Leonard Mallory Outerbridge was born in Warwick, Bermuda in 1900. He attended school in Bermuda, becoming a specialist in tropical agriculture and head of the Department of Agriculture. He obtained his B.A. from Wabash College, Indiana, his D.D. from Queen's University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He was ordained by the Bay of Quinte Conference in 1925. He went to China in 1925 for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and stayed for six years. In 1940, Leonard Outerbridge returned to Canada to serve as a minister in Saskatchewan. In 1949 he joined the Canadian Navy as chaplain. He died in 1960 as a result of a car accident. Christena Martyn was a high school teacher who attended Queen's University. She and Leonard Outerbridge were married in June 1925.

Jones (family)
Family

Gordon R. Jones (1885-1952) was born in Brantford, Ontario; volunteered for China at the Nashville Student Volunteer Convention in 1906; studied theology at Victoria College, 1907-1910; left for China in November 1910. In China, he served initially in Chengtu, Junghsien, Chungchow and Chungking. He married Clara E. German on August 30, 1914, at Karuizawa, Japan. He served with the Chinese Labour Corps in Europe during the First World War; and upon returning to China, continued to serve in Chungking, with a brief stay in Chengtu in the mid-1940s ; and returned to Canada in 1947. Clara E. (German) Jones (1887-1969) was born in Strathroy, Ontario. She graduated from the Methodist National Training School in 1913 and was appointed by the Woman's Missionary Society to Japan in 1913. She resigned in 1914 when she married Gordon R. Jones. Clara and Gordon Jones had two daughters, Eleanor and Barbara, and one son, Stephen.

Large (family)
Family

Kathrina Vipond Roseveau Smith (Rena) was the daughter of Rev. John Vipond Smith. She received her B.A. from Victoria University in 1902 and her M.A. in 1908. From 1902 to 1906 she held a teaching position at Wesleyan High School, Grahamstown, South Africa. She married Rev. Richard Samuel Edgar Large, the brother of Rev. Thomas Alfred Large. Thomas Alfred Large was born in 1859. After his ordination, he became a missionary to Japan. He was murdered there in 1890 by burglars when he tried to defend the Toyo Eiwa Gakko girls' school in Tokyo. His wife, the former Eliza Spencer, was also injured in the incident, and she remained in Tokyo with their daughter Kate until 1895.

Stone (family)
Family

Jean and Alfred Stone were United Church missionaries to Japan. Jean Gillespie was born in Parry Sound in 1900. She attended Normal School and the Methodist National Training School. In 1925, she was appointed to Japan as a missionary and in 1931, resigned to be married to Alfred Stone. After being widowed in 1954, Jean Stone served as Secretary to St. Luke's United Church in Toronto. She died in 1987. Alfred Stone was born in Highgate, Ontario, in 1902. He attended Victoria University and was ordained in 1926. He served as a missionary in Japan. Rev. Stone died in Japan in 1954 as a result of a ferry boat accident