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Name: MacLELLAN-WILSON, Margaret Patrick Cameron, Mrs

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Nee: sister of Peter Cameron Scott, founder of AIM MIssion in EA, dau of John Scott

Birth Date: 1870 Glasgow

Death Date: 5.9.1928 Kiambu

Nationality: American

First Date: 1895

Profession: Africa Inland Mission - arr. Mombasa 27/10/1895, dep. for Machakos 12/11/1896; Founder member of AIM Mission at Nzawi, Ukamba; Kibwezi on way to coast 31/1/1897 arr. Mombasa 12/2/1897 and dep. for America

Married: 1902 Walter MacLellan-Wilson (1868-1937)

Children: Walter Scott (20.7.1901 Machakos-12 Oct 1962); Annie 'Nan' Cameron (26.10.1899 Machakos-27 Feb 1964); Margaret Jessie (Beverly) (4.4.1904)

Book Reference: North, Grasshoppers, Red Book 1912

General Information:

Grasshoppers - 1897 - The missionary team began to fall apart. Peter Scott's parents left first. The kindly Government official, Ainsworth, offered John Scott a job in a healthy climate and he accepted. John Ainsworth's motives may have been mixed for soon he married their daughter, Ina. Meanwhile the team sent Margaret Scott home to confer with the Philadelphia Council and to represent the mission at home. After a few months of impassioned deputation, she too resigned and the magazine notes somewhat ambiguously, 'Her parents need her in Machakos. She will return as the wife of Mr Wilson [MacLellan-Wilson] who also resigns.
Red Book 1912 - Committee Member of the EA Nursing Association
Barnes - St Paul's Kiambu - in loving memory / of / Margaret Cameron / wife of / Walter MacLellan Wilson / died Sept 5th 1928 / aged 59 years / and / Walter Maclellan Wilson / died March 8th 1937 / aged 68 / he giveth his beloved sleep

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