Elizabeth Colenso was a missionary, teacher and Bible translator in New Zealand.
13 Facts About Elizabeth Colenso
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Elizabeth Colenso was the daughter of Sarah Tuckwell and her husband, William Fairburn.
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Elizabeth Colenso became fluent in Maori, and in 1840, aged 19 years, was teaching Maori children and young people at her father's mission station at Maraetai.
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When Bishop Selwyn visited the mission, he engaged Elizabeth Colenso to teach at St John's College, which was then at the Waimate Mission.
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In September 1845 Elizabeth Colenso went overland to the Rev William Williams' mission station at Turanga, Poverty Bay for the birth of her son Ridley Latimer.
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Elizabeth Colenso took her two children, Fanny, and Latty, to England to finish their education, and settled in Tottenham, north London.
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On 4 December 1863 Elizabeth Colenso accompanied Hariata and Hare Pomare as interpreter on a visit to Queen Victoria.
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Elizabeth Colenso helped prepare the revised New Testament for press, correcting the printed copy, and sometimes suggesting alternative translations.
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In 1869 Elizabeth Colenso started a school for Maori children at the mission house at Paihia and kept it going until the end of 1875.
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In 1879 Colenso visited New Zealand and travelled to Otaki to see her daughter Fanny and son-in-law, William H Simcox.
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In 1891 Elizabeth Colenso again visited New Zealand; this visit included a visit to her family in Otaki.
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Elizabeth Colenso retired from mission life in 1898, at the age of 76, by which time she was suffering increasing pain from rheumatism.
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Elizabeth Colenso lived to the age of 83, dying on 2 September 1904 at Forest Lakes, Otaki.