Lyth family, pictorial material, ca 1800-1890 / compiled by Laurel May Heath

PXE 1528

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ca 1800-1890

Graphic Materials, Photographs

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7 photographs - black & white - various sizes

Reverend Richard Burdsall Lyth, 1810-1887, was ordained a minister of the Methodist Church on 30 September 1836, and elected to serve as a missionary in the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, London. In the same year he married Mary Anne Hardy, 1811-1890, at Apperley Bridge, Yorkshire, England. In October 1836 they sailed to the Friendly Islands, now known as Tonga, Pacific Ocean, by way of Hobart, Tasmania and Sydney, N.S.W. In 1838, Richard Burdsall Lyth was transferred to a new appointment on the Fijian Island, Pacific Ocean, Richard and Mary Lyth had nine children.

1. Rev. Dr. John Lyth, brother to Richard Burdsall Lyth.

2. Richard Burdsall Lyth Junior, married Jane Butters.

3. John Lyth and Mary Lyth nee Burdsall of York. Parents of Rev. R.B. Lyth of Fiji.

4. Rev. Dr. Richard Burdsall Lyth, 1810-1885.

5. Mrs. R.B. Lyth (Mary Ann Hardy).

6. John Hardy Lyth. Son of R.B. & M.A. Lyth.

7. Copy of sketch. "Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope. Pen and ink sketch taken from the deck of the Royal George in leaving Table Bay, 1836, M.A.L."

This pictorial material is part of the papers Matai-ni-mate: carpenter of sickness: the Reverend Richard Burdsall Lyth, M.R.C.S., L.S.A. and the Wesleyan Mission in Fiji: a case study in mission contact relationships in pre-cession Fiji, 1839-1854 / Laurel May Heath at MLMSS 3618 ADD-ON 1852

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