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Livingstone's birthplace in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Scotland David Livingstone's birthplace, with period furnishings. Livingstone was born on 19 March 1813 in the mill town of Blantyre, Scotland, in a tenement building for the workers of a cotton factory on the banks of the River Clyde under the bridge crossing into Bothwell. [6]
Mary Moffat born Mary Smith (1795 – 9 January 1871) was a British missionary who became a role model for women involved in missionary work. She was the wife of Robert Moffat, the mother of Mary Moffat Livingstone and David Livingstone was her son-in-law.
Mary Livingstone (née Moffat; 12 April 1821 – 27 April 1862) was the wife of the Scottish Congregationalist missionary David Livingstone. [1] [2] [3] She was a linguist, an experienced traveller, and managed the household affairs including missionary stations and infant school. [4] Mary was fluent in Tswana, the language of the BaTswana people.
Many forget the missionary zeal of Dr. David Livingstone, as he hoped to spread Christianity but also commerce, in Africa. Professor: Great Christian missionary who converted only one: Dr ...
In 1845, Livingstone married Robert and Mary Moffat's daughter Mary (1821–1862). Around 1842, founded the London Missionary Society's School for the Sons and Orphans of Missionaries, now known as Eltham College. David Livingstone sent his son Robert to the school during the 1850s.
Their daughter was Mary Moffat Livingstone and their son-in-law was David Livingstone, who often worked with Moffat and his missionary efforts at various stations in southern Africa. While doing missionary work at the mission at Kuruman, Moffat was the first to translate and have the Bible printed into the Sechuana language [a]. While in Africa ...
James Chuma and Abdullah Susi in their usual clothing In the London studio of Henry Maull & Co., Chuma portrayed as expected by the British public. James Chuma and Abdullah Susi were men from central Africa who took part in the second Zambesi expedition led by the explorer David Livingstone, and were employed by him in his last expedition.
Kolobeng Mission (also known as the Livingstone Memorial), built in 1847, the third and final mission of David Livingstone, a missionary and explorer of Africa.Located in the country of Botswana, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of Kumakwane and 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Gaborone off the Thamaga-Kanye Road, the mission housed a church and a school and was also the home of David Livingstone, his ...