Re: Canuck defined

From: Graeme Wall (Graeme_at_greywall.demon.co.uk)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:20:29 +0000

In message <knah3198gj3v596236khj5llmrukeeufsd@4ax.com>
          Steve Hayes <hayesmstw@hotmail.com> wrote:

[snip]
>
> True, and I've tried to point out the relevance of related anthropological
> studies to British genealogy. And we have a missionary in the family, or at
> least my wife does. My mother in law used to talk about a great uncle who
> was a "missionary in Africa" (she lived just outside Durban, so I wondered
> a bit about her point of view). But investigation (by her double second
> cousin) turned up some quite interesting information. He was Charles
> William Pearson, and was a missionary in Uganda. Went there up the Nile,
> met "Chinese" Gordon in Khartoum, and returned bia the East Coast,
> invalided out witb fever, so having missionaries in the family is not
> beyond the bounds of possibility.
>

There are a couple of references to a Mr Pearson, missionary in Uganda, in
Charles Miller's 'The Lunatic Express' about the building of the Uganda
Railway. If you are interested email me and I'll transcribe the appropriate
bits. 

-- 
Graeme Wall
My genealogy website:  
<http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/index.html>