Isaac Hughes (missionary)
Isaac Hughes (1798 – 23 June 1870) was an English Calvinist missionary and preacher. He was born to Welsh parents Edward[disambiguation needed] and Mary Hughes in Manchester. His father came from Bontuchel in Denbighshire and his mother came from Brynsiencyn in Anglesey.[1] After some time in Sheffield and Rotherham, he married Elizabeth Jones from Llangollen on August 18, 1823 and departed Britain a month later on September 24 on a ship from Gravesend, arriving in Cape Town, South Africa on December 30.[1] He initially worked as a blacksmith, reaching Kuruman in August 1824 and Griquatown in late 1827,[2][3] also working in Lattakoo and Graham's Town. In 1839 he became a missionary.[1] In 1845 he worked along the Vaal River and opened a new station in Backhouse, which later developed into the town Douglas. After his wife died, he remarried a missionary's daughter, Anne Magdalena Vogelgezang in 1850. He died on 23 June 1870 after a 47-year career.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Morris, John Hughes (1910). The History of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists' Foreign Mission: To the End of the Year 1904. Indus Publishing. p. 311. ISBN 978-81-7387-049-1.
- ^ Legassick, Martin Chatfield (2010). The Politics of a South African Frontier: The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the Missionaries, 1780-1840. Basler Afrika Bibliographien. p. 185. ISBN 978-3-905758-14-6.
- ^ Price, Elizabeth Lees (1956). The journals of Elizabeth Lees Price written in Bechuanaland, Southern Africa, 1854-1883, with an epilogue, 1889-1900. Edward Arnold.