Mary Ann Aldersey
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Mary Ann Aldersey (June 24, 1797 – 1868), the first woman Christian missionary to China, and founder of a school for girls in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. She employed the orphan daughters of Samuel Dyer: Maria Jane Dyer and Burella Hunter Dyer in teaching at the school. She is often remembered for her opposition to the marriage of Hudson Taylor to Maria in 1857. However, her pioneering the field of mission work for single women in China is the most remarkable outcome of her life. She retired to Mclaren Vale, South Australia in 1861 and built a house (Tsong Gyiaou) named after a former preaching station. The name is an anglicised form of 'San Ch'iao' (pronounced 'Song Jow'). It is now part of the Southern Districts War Memorial Hospital.
She had been a student of Robert Morrison in London before beginning her missionary work. She arrived in Java in 1837. She went to China in 1841.
[edit] See also
- 19th Century Protestant Missions in China
- List of Protestant missionaries in China
- Christianity in China
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[edit] References
- E. Aldersey White (1932) A Woman Pioneer in China. The life of Mary Ann Aldersey, London, Livingstone Press
- Joyce Reason, The Witch of Ningpo [Eagle Books, No. 30.] (London: Edinburgh House Press, 1940)
- The Story of the China Inland Mission Volume I; Mary Geraldine Guinness, Morgan & Scott, 1894
- Hudson Taylor & The China Inland Mission Volume One: In Early Years; The Growth of a Soul; Dr. & Mrs. Howard Taylor, China Inland Mission, London, 1911
- Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret; Dr. & Mrs. Howard Taylor, China Inland Mission, London, 1932
- Hudson & Maria; Pioneers In China; John Pollock, 1964
- Hudson Taylor & China’s Open Century Volume One: Barbarians at the Gates; Alfred James Broomhall; Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982
- Hudson Taylor & China’s Open Century Volume Two: Over the Treaty Wall; Alfred James Broomhall; Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982
- Hudson Taylor & China’s Open Century Volume Three: If I Had a Thousand Lives; Alfred James Broomhall; Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982
- From Jerusalem to Iriyan Jaya; Dr. Ruth Tucker, Zondervan
- Hudson Taylor: A Man In Christ; Roger Steer, Paternoster, 1990
- It Is Not Death to Die; Jim Cromarty, Christian Focus, 2001
- Christ Alone - A Pictorial Presentation of Hudson Taylor's Life and Legacy; OMF International, 2005
- Griffiths, Valerie, Not Less Than Everything, Monarch Books & OMF International, Oxford, 2004
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aldersey, Mary Ann |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | First single female missionary in China |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1797 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | [[[England]] |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1868 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | South Australia |
