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Name: MAYOR, Elizabeth, Miss
Nee: sister of Dinah Mayor, Vladimir Verbi's wife
Birth Date: 21.11.1870 Blackburn, Lancs
Death Date: 13.2.1960 Preston
Nationality: British
First Date: 1897
Profession: Missionary at Taveta Mission
Area: Taveta
Book Reference: Kenya Diary, EAHB 1905, KAD, Hut, North, EA Diary 1903, EAHB 1906, CMS, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Foster, Gazette
General Information:
North - Former Cotton Weaver; Highbury Training House 1895; dep. for EA 16/3/1897; Rabai; Taveta from Nov. 1897; Freretown April 1899; Taveta Feb. 1900; on home leave 1901/2
CMS - 1897 - Age 27. Of Blackburn. Cotton Cloth Weaver. 1895 Highbury; 1897 Mar 16 Accepted as Missionary CMS; Oct 1 Depart for E. Africa Mission - Taveta; 1899 April Frere Town; 1900 Feb. Taveta; 1901 Nov 23 to England; 1902 Oct 21 to Taveta; Sister of Mrs Dinah Verbi
Foster - She was a Missionary in Kenya from 1897 to 1923. Retired in 1923.
Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Ukamba Area - Elizabeth Mayor - Spinster, Missionary, Weithaga, Fort Hall
Kenya Diary - Apr. 1906 - Nice English girl without any of that evangelical pretentiousness which usually stamps such people.
EAHB 1905 at Taveta with CMS.
KAD 1922 has Miss E. Mayor, CMS, Fort Hall
1939 England and Wales Register living in Preston