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Name: BURNS, Sibella L. 'Sibbie', Mrs

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Nee: Bazett, sister of Ellen, Louisa, Mabel and Mary

Birth Date: 22 May 1868 Reading

Death Date: 12 Dec 1954 Limuru

Nationality: British

First Date: 1892

Last Date: 1954

Profession: Missionary

Area: Mombasa, Limuru

Married: In Mombasa 19.4.1902 Canon George Reed Burns (1876-1944)

Children: Arthur Bazett (1903 E. Africa); Margaret Ruth (Freretown 1904-1905); Norman Reed (Nairobi 21.12.1907); Joyce Sibella (1907 Reading, trained as a nurse); Katharine Margery (15 Oct 1913- 4 Feb 1921 Mombasa)

Book Reference: North, EA & Rhodesia, CMS, SKP

General Information:

East Africa & Rhodesia - 16/12/54 - Mrs Sybella Burns, widow of the late Canon George Burns, one of the pioneer missionaries in Kenya, died at her home in Limuru, near Nairobi, on Saturday at the age of 86. It was in 1892 that she and two sisters went to East Africa to join the Freretown mission of the CMS near Mombasa. She married 10 years later.
CMS 1892 - Age 24. b. at Reading. At The Willows. 1892, May 31, accepted as Hon. Missionary; Oct 24, to E. Eq. Africa Mission - Mombasa.
SKP - 1938 - Society of Kenya Pioneers - over 30 years in Colony - arrived 1892
CMS - The Willows Training House; accepted as hon. Missionary 31-5-1892; dep London for EA 24-10-1892; Mombasa Town Mission
Barnes - Nairobi South Cemetery - Katharine Margery Burns, born 15 Oct 1913, died 4 Feb 1921 aged 8, daughter of Canon Burns CMS
Gazette 8 Feb 1955 probate

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