[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Situated in the hills of Sans Soucis on the east side of Mahe, the main island (151 sq km) of the Seychelles archipelago, the institution was named after Henry Venn, an Anglican missionary, who in 1799, together with William Wilberforce, the English abolitionist, co-founded the Church Missionary Society to spread Christianity in Africa and Asia, as well as creating orphanages for children of slaves.
The former St George's schoolgirl helped Birmingham's Church Missionary Society, St Stephen's Day Centre, in Stirchley and used to visit the elderly, even when she was in her late 80s.
Family flowers only, donations to either Mission Aviation Fellowship or The Church Missionary Society, c/o John Bardgett and Sons, 571 Westgate Road, NE4 9PQ.
She was the only woman from the first 1814 Missionary settlement of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in New Zealand to remain in New Zealand for the rest of her life, yet she does not have an entry in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, and is rarely indexed in either New Zealand's general historical works or even works more specifically related to the Missionary era.
A fitting tribute is paid to Carey attributing the formation of the under mentioned missionary societies largely through his labors and letters: The London Missionary Society (1795), the Scottish and Glasgow Missionary Societies (1976), the Netherlands Missionary Society (1797), the Church Missionary Society (1799), the British and Foreign Bible Society (1804), the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1810), the American Baptist Missionary Union (1814) and the American Bible Society (1816) (Kane 1982, 148).
Although we don't know about his schooling, he could read and write well, and was accepted by the Church Missionary Society for training, alongside another young man, William Hall, a carpenter.
