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From: "Joy Chase" <>
Subject: Re: [India-L] Frances Elizabeth Barnett 1840 - 1895
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 22:10:54 -0800


She might have been a missionary. I wonder if the Missionary Society in
London still exists and if the records are available. Joy

Joy Chase
in sunny Mountain View, CA (San Francisco Bay Area)
researching BLANCHE, CHASE, CLAPHAM, LILYWHITE and SHEPHERD


>From: "Charles and / or Marjolein Hillman"
><>
>To:
>Subject: [India-L] Frances Elizabeth Barnett 1840 - 1895
>Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:48:24 -0000
>
>Does anyone know more about Frances Elizabeth Barnett 1840 - 1895?
>
>I have a note that she turned up at one stage as a sister of the Community
>of St Mary the Virgin in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England. I am not sure
>when. I suspect (from my knowledge of other family members, and of what
>was going on in Oxford at this time) that she was by way of religion some
>kind of higher than average Anglican.
>
>I did not trace her in the 1881 UK census.
>
>However, according to her memorial in Oxfordshire she died, still
>unmarried, at Mathoran, India on November 9, 1895.
>
>I have been wondering if she was in India as some sort of nursing sister.
>(One or two of her brothers turn up in the Indian army during the
>nineteenth century.)
>
>But about her I know very little. Hence this note.
>
>Thanks if you have any input.
>
>Sincerely
>
>Charles Hillman
>
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>
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>
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>
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