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Name: BURTT, Theodore

Birth Date: 18.12.1863 Fulbeck, Lincolnshire

Death Date: 11.3.1944 Lincolnshire

Nationality: British

First Date: 1896

Last Date: 1931

Profession: Gave 34 years of missionary service in the Island of Pemba before he retired in 1931

Area: Zanzibar and Pemba

Married: In Wellingborough 20.9.1890 Jessie Hutchinson b. 22.6.1866 Selby, Yorkshire, d. 6 Jan 1956 Birmingham

Children: Caroline Keymer (25 Mar 1892 Claypole, Lincs.-9 Oct 1956 Birmingham); Henry Hutchinson (1894 Brandon, Lincs.-1967 Stroud, Glos.); Theodore (2 July 1896 Brandon-5 Sep 1977 Shaftesbury); Arnold Wigham (28 Oct 1900 Pemba-21 Apr 1992 Brant Broughton); Elizabeth Richardson (Barber) (5 Feb 1903 Pemba-20 Dec 1989 Leeds)

Book Reference: Gillett, North, Red 22

General Information:

In 1896 the Society of Friends sent him, with one other, to investigate the conditions of slaves in Zanzibar and Pemba where the legal status of slavery was abolished a few months after their arrival. Subsequently he and his wife purchased a small estate for the accommodation of runaway slaves and devoted all their time to missionary, educational and medical work in Zanzibar and Pemba.

North - Friends Industrial Mission - arr. Pemba 1896; appt. Leader of Mission 30-12-1896; at Pemba with wife Jan. March 1897; Jessie Burtt judge at the 'Zanzibar Exhibition' Aug 1905

1939 England and Wales Register living, retired missionary, in North Kesteven with wife

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