Elizabeth Colenso
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Elizabeth Colenso was a missionary, teacher and Bible translator in New Zealand.
Mrs Elizabeth Colenso nee Fairburn
Te Waimate Mission
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Te Waimate Mission was the fourth mission station established in New Zealand and the first settlement inland from the Bay of Islands. The members of the Church Missionary Society appointed to establis
Elizabeth Colenso
…father's mission station at Maraetai. When Bishop Selwyn visited the mission, he engaged Elizabeth to teach at St. John's College, which was then at the Waimate Mission. Here she met missionary and printer William Colenso. The pair married on 27 April 1843. Following Colenso's ordination as a deacon in September 1844…
George Clarke's house
St. John the Baptist Church today. Some combatants who died at the Battle of Ohaeawai in 1845 are buried in this churchyard.
Wooden headstone for two of the British soldiers killed at Ohaeawai, preserved at the mission