Lyth family 'Letters home from Richard Burdsall Lyth and Mary Ann Lyth, 1829-1856', being copies of transcriptions by Catharine Lyth Crawford, Keith Early Crawford and Hugh Vanner Crawford, 1981

MLMSS 3952

fonds

1981

922986

1 folder of textual material

Reverend Richard Burdsall Lyth, 1810-1887, was ordained a minister of the Methodist Church on 30 September 1836, and elected to serve as a missionary in the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, London. In the same year he married Mary Anne Hardy, 1811-1890, at Apperley Bridge, Yorkshire, England. In October 1836 they sailed to the Friendly Islands, now known as Tonga, Pacific Ocean, by way of Hobart, Tasmania and Sydney, N.S.W. In 1838, Richard Burdsall Lyth was transferred to a new appointment on the Fijian Island, Pacific Ocean, Richard and Mary Lyth had nine children.

This collection includes pictorial material. For location and description of this see Pic.Acc.5144 in Pic.Source file

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (5-543 C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

Keyword subjects:
Wesleyan Methodist Church -- Clergy -- Correspondence
Wesleyan Methodist Church -- Missions -- Tonga