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Name: COLE, Henry (Rev.)
Birth Date: 4 Sep 1849 Thurles, Co. Tipperary
Death Date: 26.7.1947 St Leonards on Sea
Nationality: British
First Date: 1879
Profession: CMS missionary at 'Kisokwe' in Ugogo in 1885/6 and 1890 - still there in 1894 with his wife
Area: Kisokwe, Usagara, GEA
Married: 1. In Zanzibar 15.11.1881 Henrietta Millington b. 8 july 1855 London, d. 27.2.1883 Africa; 2. In Kisokwe 2. 15.7.1886 Alice Mary Baxter d. 11.3.1904 St Leonards on Sea
Children: Henry P. (1883 Africa)
Book Reference: Watt, Tucker, North, CMS
General Information:
Visited by Rachel and Stuart Watt. He had been working there 'with great fidelity' for some years.
Watt - Narrowly escaped death, having been gored by a buffalo while out shooting some meat for his camp.
CMS 1879 - Age 30. Of Thurles, Ireland. 1876 Prep. Instn. and CM Coll. 1879, July 31 to Mpwapwa, Usagara, EA as Lay Missionary and Agriculturist. 1883, July 24 to England; at CM Coll. 1885, Trinity Deacon by Bishop of London; 1890 Priest by Bishop Tucker. 1885, Aug 19 to E. Eq. Africa Mission; 1890, Sept 2 to England; 1892, Oct 24 to E. Eq. Africa Mission - Kisokwe. Married 1881, Nov 15 at Zanzibar, H. Millington, who died at Kisokwe July 22, 1883 (one of the first 3 English Missionary wives to reside in CMS EA Mission. (2) 1886, July 15, Alice Mary Baxter who died 1904, Mar 11 at St. Leonards on Sea. [Notes by Roy Dunstan] 1898 Jun 16 to UK; 1900 Jun 10 to Mpwapwa; 1905 July 2 to UK on medical cert.; 1907 Mar 5 placed on disabled fund; 1947, Jun 26 died at St. Leonards on Sea.