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Name: HAMSHERE, John Edward (Ven. Archdeacon)
Birth Date: 7 Oct 1867 Stepney, London, bapt. 10 Nov
Death Date: 4 Nov 1952 Totnes
First Date: 1893
Last Date: 1928
Profession: CMS missionary. Attached to Divinity School, Freretown, later Archdeacon Mombasa
Area: Freretown, Mombasa
Married: 1. In Mombasa 25.12.1896 Margaret Jardine Lockhart arrived E Africa 1893, b. 1865 Liverpool, d. 3.5.1907 Mombasa, blackwater fever; 2. In Mombasa Agnes Maud Barnett b. 12 Feb 1874 Wolverhampton, d. 1959 Worthing, also a CMS missionary
Children: Margaret Alice (21.9.1898-1899); David E.L. (12 Feb 1902; Wilfred C. (12 Oct 1918); John Lockhart; Cyril Eric (14 Aug 1912 Jamaica)
Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Tucker, EAHB 1905, Red 25, EAS, Hall, North, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, Red 22, EAHB 1906, TNR, CMS, Foster, Rabai, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Leader14, Red Book 1912, Red 19
School: Islington College
General Information:
Ordained by Bishop Tucker in Jan 1895.
Hall has Miss Lockhart - Hall - Photo of missionaries at Mombasa 1895
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa (Rev. Mr & Mrs Hamshere)
North - Married Miss Margaret Jardine Lockart 1896 - she died aged 42, 3-5-1907
Tanganyika Notes & Records - No. 42, p. 29 - The Ven. J.E. Hamshere was the father of the present Headmaster of Arusha School. He came out as a CMS Missionary in 1893 and spent much of his time at the Divinity School, Freretown (Kisauni). He was an expert on the Mombasa dialect of Kiswahili, and did considerable translation work. He did much safari work, and walked from Mombasa to Taveta and the Pare Mountains. After holding the appointment of Archdeacon of Mombasa for a number of years, he was transferred to Kongwa in 1926 to open the Clergy Training College there. He retired from CMS in 1930, and after being Vicar of Mark Cross, near Tunbridge Wells until 1948, he retired from his parish and died in Devon in 1952 at the age of 85.
CMS 1893 - Age 26. Of London. b. at Stepney. 1889 Prep. Instn; 1890 May, CM Coll. 1st Cl. Oxford and Camb. Prelim. Theolog. Exam. 1893, Trinity, Deacon by Bishop of London; 1895, Jan 13, Priest by Bishop Tucker at Frere Town. 1893, Nov 16 to E. Eq. Africa Mission - Frere Town.
Foster - 1928 retired
Red Book 1912 - J.E. Hamshere - Mombasa
Red Book 1912 - St. Paul's Divinity School, Frere Town - Principal Rev. J.E. Hamshere
Red Book 1919 - Archdeacon of Mombasa
Hall - Photo of missionaries at Mombasa 1895.
North - Ordained 8/1/1895
1939 England and Wales Register living with wife and family in Uckfield
FindaGrave Margaret Jardine “Maggie”
Lockhart Hamshere BIRTH unknown DEATH 3 May 1907 BURIAL
Kisauni Cemetery Mombasa: .. / beloved wife of the / Rev'd John E Hamshere / she fell asleep in Jesus 3rd May 1907 / in the noontide of her missionary / life of devotion, love and sympathy
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