| Summary: |
Two journals being:
1) Journal of Rev Wrigley from 6th August 1836 (preparing to set sail from Gravesend) to 19th March 1837 (recovering from ill health).
2) Rear of volume: continuation of Rev Wrigley's journal from 23 March 1837 until 15th November 1837 (dying) with insert of draft entries for 28th June until 2nd July [1837]. Insert of incomplete letter, seemingly by Rev Wrigley, c1836. Insert stating Henry Longden of Sheffield will look after his 'little girl' and estate, 15th November 1837;
Front of volume: 'Album or Scrap Book the Property of Harriet Brown' containing copies of hymns and poems, messages from friends in Sheffield (August 1835), journal (now as Mrs Wrigley) from 6th August 1836 (leaving London) until 21st August 1836 (she and husband unwell at sea) with two inserts being draft journal pages for 13th-26th September [1836].
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The Rev & Mrs George Wrigley set sail from Gravesend, Kent, for West Africa on 12th August 1836 on board the 'George Canning'. (Wrigley married Harriet Brown, probably in Sheffield, Yorkshire, before their departure but no earlier than August 1835). They arrived in Ghana on 15th September 1836. They worked in the Cape Coast including Elmina, Dixcove, Anomabu, Abura and Dunkwa as well as making indirect contact with the kings of Fante and Ashanti. Rev Wrigley introduced quarterly and missionary prayer meetings whilst both of them engaged in educational work amongst their parishioners, with Mrs Wrigley establishing a girls' school in September 1836. Rev Wrigley also began the building of the Wesley Church in Cape Coast in late 1836. Whilst nursing her dying colleagues, the Rev and Mrs Harrop, Harriet Wrigley became ill herself and died on 8th February 1837. That year Wrigley spent much of his time concentrating on learning Fanti, conducting services in that language and undertaking translation work. Unfortunately, on 6 November 1837 he was taken ill and died a few days later on 16th, probably of malaria. Both he and Mrs Wrigley were buried at the church they helped build.
Further Reading:
Bartels, F L, The roots of Ghana Methodism (1965);
Findlay & Holdsworth, The History of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, (vol 4, 1922). |
The Rev & Mrs George Wrigley set sail from Gravesend, Kent, for West Africa on 12th August 1836 on board the 'George Canning'. (Wrigley married Harriet Brown, probably in Sheffield, Yorkshire, before their departure but no earlier than August 1835). They arrived in Ghana on 15th September 1836. They worked in the Cape Coast including Elmina, Dixcove, Anomabu, Abura and Dunkwa as well as making indirect contact with the kings of Fante and Ashanti. Rev Wrigley introduced quarterly and missionary prayer meetings whilst both of th ... View more |
