Thanks to Janet, Arthur, Geoff and Stan for pointers as to where to look for info. When I looked some years ago now, there was very little on the internet, but there are more resources now. I didn't retire until 1987 and so I wasn't a member of the NDFHS IN 1988 Geoff, but I will certainly get hold of Steve Race's article. I had a quick look at Mundus, but the girls aren't on their database. I would think that a couple of youngsters with minimal education would be employed in a lowly status in China, so I may never get any further. They may have been wiped out in the Boxer rebellion, of course. Perhaps there is a source somewhere, a consulate list of deaths, maybe. However, from time to time amazing things do happen in genealogy and unexpectedly contacts appear from unheard of places! And from time to time I do get sent off on interesting pursuits..... Thank you or your ideas. I will post if I get any further. Ann -----Original Message----- From: eng-durham-request@rootsweb.com To: eng-durham@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 8:01 Subject: ENG-DURHAM Digest, Vol 4, Issue 187 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Missionaries to China (NEGenealogy@aol.com) 2. Re: Missionaries to China (Stan Mapstone) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:58:38 EST From: NEGenealogy@aol.com Subject: Re: [ENG-DURHAM] Missionaries to China To: ENG-DURHAM@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <ca5.4ef55461.383913ce@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" In a message dated 20/11/2009 21:20:38 GMT Standard Time, annathamble@aol.com writes: I have been looking at my husband's COOPER family, who lived at South Shields from c 1874. I have traced most of the family through to 1911. However, two girls, Sarah b Hythe, Kent, 1872, and Emma, b 1875, in South Shields, disappear. I was told that they went as missionaries to China. I have no idea who might have sent them, where or why they went, what happened to them, and how I might find out more. Tall order, I fear, but I won't find out unless I ask! Ann Ann: This may be a little too early for you, and being from a Methodist stand-point, perhaps not all that relevant, but I thought I would mention it, since missionaries to China would never have been very thick on the ground. but here goes. Do you remember the radio disc-jockey/presenter, Steve Race? In his book "The two worlds of Joseph Race", published in 1988, he details the life of his ancestor Joseph Russell Race (1848-1880), who was a methodist missionary in China. If you can find that anywhere it might hold a few clues for you. I seem to remember that Steve Race may have written a summary article about Joseph Russell Race's career and about his own Weardale/Teesdale Race ancestry for the NDFHS Journal at about the same time. If you were not a NDFHS member around then, or have not kept your old Journals, then you could access them via the CD of the first 25 years-worth of Journals, on sale at Bolbec Hall or by post. Failing that, what about contacting the British and Foreign Bible Society? Geoff Nicholson ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:09:34 -0500 From: Stan Mapstone <stanmapstone@aol.com> Subject: Re: [ENG-DURHAM] Missionaries to China To: eng-durham@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <8CC38A9DB5618BD-5270-14C4C@webmail-d001.sysops.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" There is the Mundus Gateway which is a web-based guide to more than four hundred collections of overseas missionary materials held in the United Kingdom. http://www.mundus.ac.uk/ Stan Mapstone -----Original Message----- From: Ann <annathamble@aol.com> To: eng-durham@rootsweb.com Sent: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:20 Subject: Re: [ENG-DURHAM] Missionaries to China Hi List, I have been looking at my husband's COOPER family, who lived at South Shields rom c 1874. have traced most of the family through to 1911. However, two girls, Sarah Hythe, Kent, 1872, and Emma, b 1875, in South Shields, disappear. I was told hat they went as missionaries to China. have no idea who might have sent them, where or why they went, what happened o them, and how I might find out more. Tall order, I fear, but I won't find out unless I ask! Ann - ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-DURHAM-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message ------------------------------ To contact the ENG-DURHAM list administrator, send an email to ENG-DURHAM-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the ENG-DURHAM mailing list, send an email to ENG-DURHAM@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-DURHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of ENG-DURHAM Digest, Vol 4, Issue 187 ******************************************