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Henry Williams (11 February 1792 – 16 July 1867) was the leader of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) mission in New Zealand in the first half of the 19th century. Williams entered the Royal Navy at the age of fourteen and served in the Napoleonic Wars .
Missionary Henry Williams named the mission station Marsden's Vale. [3] [4] Paihia eventually became the accepted name of the settlement. Nearby to the north is the historic settlement of Waitangi, and the residential and commercial area of Haruru Falls is to the west.
Henry Williams commissioned a ship to provision the Paihia Mission and to visit the more remote areas of New Zealand to bring the Gospel to the Māori people. [32] William Hall, William Puckey (Senior), William Gilbert Puckey designed and built Herald , a 55-ton schooner .
Watercolour painting by Henry Williams of the CMS mission house at Paihia. On 11 September 1822 Henry and Marianne and three children embarked on the Lord Sidmouth, a convict ship carrying women convicts to Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia.
In 1839 James Stack and his wife Mary joined William Williams at the mission station at Tūranga and later set up a mission at Rangitukia (1842–1847). [17] By 1840 there were about 20 Māori religious teachers in the East Cape and Poverty Bay districts, one of these was Anaru Matete from Rongowhakaata who was thought to have helped Williams ...
Jane was baptised in Nottingham on 29 April 1801. She was the daughter of James Nelson and his wife, Anna Maria Dale of Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire. [1]In 1817 Jane became a teacher at the school for girls in Southwell, Nottinghamshire run by Mary Williams, [2] mother of Henry and William Williams who were both members of the Church Missionary Society (CMS).
In 1833, while living in the Paihia mission-house of the head of the New Zealand CMS, Rev Henry Williams, missioner William Colenso published Māori translations including parts of books of the Bible, the first books printed in New Zealand.
Shepherd assisted Samuel Marsden's missions at Oihi and Te Puna near Kerikeri and Henry Williams' mission at Paihia. [9] These first C.M.S. missionaries in New Zealand (William Hall, John King, Thomas Kendall, Francis Hall, John Butler, James Kemp and James Shepherd) met criticisms stating: "they did not convert one single Maori; their survival is attributed to Maoris' tolerance rather than ...