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AU PMB MS 35-01
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- Jul-Aug 1823 (Creation)
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Reverend John Williams (1796-1839) went to Tahiti (French Polynesia) as a missionary for the London Missionary Society in 1816. He was active in the Society, Hervey, Southern Cook and Samoan Islands. In 1839, he moved to Fasitoouta, Upolu, in Samoa and established a station there. On 20 November 1839, he was killed at Erromango, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), along with another LMS missionary James Harris.
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Reverend Robert Bourne (1793-1871) went to the Society Islands as a missionary for the London Missionary Society in 1817. In 1822, he began the mission at Tahaa. He left Tahiti in 1827 and retired from the LMS to England in 1829. In 1931 he moved to Sydney, where he established a drapery store, and later to Victoria then Queensland c.1853, where he took up a position for his son-in-law, George Raff, a merchant, sugar grower and politician. Bourne is buried in the Brisbane General Cemetery, Toowong, Brisbane, alongside his wife Ann who died in 1878.
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PMB_35_01sm.pdf
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