Colonial Despatches

Mariane Gammage travelled to the colony of British Columbia with her husband Reverend James Gammage on board the Thames City in autumn 1858, arriving at Esquimalt on 11 April 1859.1 She stayed with him at his mission in Douglas and returned to England with him in 1863.2 She died in 1902 at the age of sixty-seven.3

• 1. Mission to British Columbia, London News, 18 September 1858, 2; United Kingdom, The National Archives, RG11 General Register Office: 1881 Census Returns RG11/1330, 51; United Kingdom, The National Archives, RG12 General Register Office: 1891 Census Returns RG12/1018, 37; The Mission Field, A Monthly Record of the Proceedings of The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel at Home and Abroad [vol. 4] (London: 1859), 169-173.
• 2. The Mission Field, A Monthly Record of the Proceedings of The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel at Home and Abroad [vol. 6] (London: 1861), 15.
• 3. United Kingdom, General Register Office Index, Deaths Registered in January, February, and March 1902. Uxbridge, vol. 3a, 21. http://www.freebmd.org.uk