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Name: SMITH, Mabel Augusta, Mrs
Nee: Barton
Birth Date: 1867
Death Date: 1941 Tunbridge Wells
Nationality: British
First Date: 1889
Last Date: 1903
Profession: Church Missionary Society missionary
Area: Freretown Mombasa
Married: At Freretown 8.8.1890 Rev. Arthur Grafftey Smith (1862-1937)
Children: Margaretta Grafftey (1896 Mombasa); Anthony Paul Grafftey (bapt. 24 June 1903 Bristol); Lawrence Barton Grafftey (bapt. 12 May 1892 Cheselbourne, Dorset)
Author: Letters from the Horn of Africa 1923-1942 : Sandy Curle, soldier and diplomat extraordinary (ed. Christian Curle), Barnsley 2008. Sandy Curle: letters home from liberated Ethiopia, 1941-1945 (ed. Christian Curle), London 2021
Book Reference: North, CMS
General Information:
North - CMS BEA - From Bere Regis, Dorset; The Willows Training House 1888; accepted as missionary in EA 6-2-1888; aged 22, dep. London for EA 4-7-1889; arr. Mombasa 28-8-1889; Freretown Mission; assisting at Freretown Girls' School July 1890; Dep. EA 1903
CMS 1889 - Age 22. Of Bere Regis, Dorset. 1888, Feb 6, accepted by CMS. At The Willows. 1889, July 4, to E. Eq. Africa Mission - Frere Town. m. 1890, Aug 8, Rev. A.G. Smith, also a CMS Missionary