conventionDeclaration detailLevel http://ica-atom.org/doc/RS-2#5.4 person Smaill, Rev. Thomas and Helen conventionDeclaration 28th July 1857 - 12th April 1902 (Rev T Smaill) Nikaura, Epi, Vanuatu Missionary (1889-1902) Missionary (1889-1902)

Reverend Thomas Smaill was born in Edinburgh, Scotland prior to his family emigrating to New Zealand in 1858. He was ordained as a missionary at Knox college in 1889 and travelled to Nikaura on Epi the same year where he was to be based. He returned to New Zealand in 1890 for a short period of time to marry Helen Grant. The couple lost their first two children born on the islands but a third, Nellie, survived. Thomas Smaill died aged 44. He became ill after making a medical visit to a woman on Epi during a hurricane.

New Hebrides Mission photograph album, 1898-1914 1898 1914

1898-1914

Synod group photo on Tangoa

1899

Unknown gathering of local people

c.1900

Preparations for a feast

c.1900

Unknown gathering

c.1900

Taloa church, Nguna

c.1900

Unknown village scene

c.1900

Group of men at Taloa

c.1900

Local people on Paama

c.1900

Synod group photo, 1905

c.1905

Mealtime at Erromanga synod

c.1905

Unknown forest stream

c.1900

Synod group photo, 1912

1912

Unknown mission house [John and Charlotte Geddie's house, Aneityum]

c.1900

Mission house, Nikaura, Epi

c.1900

Carved images

c.1900

Synod group at Tanna, 1900

1900

Tea on Rev Watt's verandah

1900

Dr Paton and Bishop Wilson

1904

Inland view of unknown island

c.1900

Mrs Smaill and Mrs Frater on Paama

c.1901

Rev F J Paton and mission children

1908

Synod group on Santo 1911 (?)

1911

Synod group on Erromanga, 1905

c.1905

Group at Dillon's Bay, Erromanga

c.1905

Synod picnic on Erromanga

c.1905

Frater and Milne families

c.1903

Unknown mission house

c.1905

Mr Kronsted's house on Tongoa

c.1905

People outside hut on unknown island

c.1905

Lamenu mission house

c.1898

Lamenu [Lamen] island from Epi

c.1900

First photo of Lamenu people

1898

Mr Wilson's cutter on Lamenu reef

c.1900

Martyr's memorial church on Erromanga

c.1900

Supabo and Balivi

c.1900

Adults and children born in New Hebrides

c.1905

Nikaura people

c.1900

Synod group on Tanna

1910

Typical Tannese

c.1900

Dr J C and Mrs I Nicholson

c.1903

William's river at Dillon's Bay, Erromanga

c.1903

Michelsen girl's with Maggie Leggatt

c.1905

Dillon's Bay, Erromanga

c.1903

River scene (?) on Erromanga

c.1903

Interior of Lamenu Church

c.1905

View from Lamenu to Epi

c.1903

Memorial plaque to Rev T Smaill

c.1903

Lamenu Bay, Epi

c.1903

Rev and Mrs McKenzie on Rev Watt's verandah

1900

Synod group on Tanna

1910

Mission children at Tanna synod

1910

Ngunese teachers on Epi

1898

Mission station, Erromanga

c.1903-1904

At the martyr's memorial, Erromanga

c.1905

Mrs H Robertson and Jackie Paton

c.1905

Synod group at Hog Harbour

1908

Unknown Chinese mission

c.1905

Missionaries and church leaders at Wanganui

1895-1896

Synod group on Tongoa, 1906

1906

Missionaries at tea

c.1905

Mission station, Paama

c.1905

Mrs Frater and children

c.1908

Synod children at Tangoa synod

c.1914

Women missionaries at Ichang, China

c.1900

Mrs M J and Mrs I Milne

c.1906

Native women on Erromanga

c.1903-1904

Dillon's Bay, Erromanga

c.1905

Canadian missionaries at synod

c.1905

Paama mission house being built

1900

Rev M and Mrs J Frater and family

c.1907

Builder's tea break

1900

Alex Frater (?)

c.1907

Tea at mission house, Epi

c.1901

First photo of Nikaura people

c.1898

Nikaura Women

1900

Rock drawings or carvings

c.1900

Coral

c.1900

Waterfall

c.1900

Missionary group photo

1904

House girls at Lamenu

c.1904

Lamenu Bay, Epi

c.1904

Yam garden, Epi

c.1905

Steamer at Aneityum

c.1904

Synod group on Tanna, 1901 (?)

1901

Missionaries at synod, 1912

1912

Mission whaleboat

c.1905