MISSIONARIES

Over 200 years ago, Britain sent out thousands of missionaries to countries all over the world. Some of the first Protestant missionaries and their wives went to Tahiti in the South Pacific, landing on 5 March 1797 on the ship Duff. Many of your ancestors who followed them would have had the same hopes and aspirations. The Missionary Society (renamed the London Missionary Society in 1818) opened two years later with the intention “to spread the knowledge of Christ among heathen and other unenlightened nations”. These missions would spread out to reach China, Madagascar, South and South-East Asia, Southern and Central Africa, North America and the West Indies.

Your missionary forbears might