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Name: GEDGE, Mary Rachel, Miss
Nee: aunt of Charles Henry Fenning Gedge and Francis Clutterbuck Gedge
Birth Date: 8 July 1837 Birmingham
Death Date: 22 Feb 1932 Cheltenham
Nationality: British
First Date: 1895
Profession: CMS missionary
Area: Rabai, Freretown, Mombasa
Book Reference: Hall, North, CMS
General Information:
CMS 1889 - Age 52. Of Croydon. b. at Birmingham. 1889, June 18, accepted by CMS partly at her own charges' Nov 5 to E. Eq. Africa Mission, as head of the Ladies' House, Frere Town; 1895, Feb 2, to England; 1894, April 6, to E. Eq. Africa Mission; succeeded Edith Furley in charge of Ladies' House.
Hall - Photo of missionaries at Mombasa 1895.
North - CMS BEA - arr. Mombasa 5/12/1889; Rabai 1890 Head of Ladies' House Freretown, Freretown at Nov 1892; in charge of Ladies' House Mombasa 1897; resigned on medical grounds 7/2/1899