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Rev. John Orsmond
Rev. John Muggeridge Orsmond
- Born
- ????
- Died
- 1856
- Parents
- Thomas and Anne
- Married
- 1. Mary ???. 2. Isabella Nelson.
Son of Thomas Orsmond married Anne Muggridge, John Muggridge Orsmond was educated for the Ministry at Gosport, Hants, England. He was ordained on the 23rd December 1815 at the King Street Chapel, Portsea. He decided to offer his services to the London Missionary Society to go to Tahiti. For this he incurred the displeasure of his parents and also lost his claim to his share of their wealth, which on their deaths was lodged with Chancery. Many years later his daughter Caroline (Mrs Edward Jollie) made two attempts to get some of the money but with no success.
Rev. John Orsmond and his wife Mary left England in 1816 on a convict ship bound for Sidney via Rio de Janeiro, Orsmond as Chaplain. At Sydney they transhipped to the 'Fox', and on 20th April 1817 they arrived at Moorea, sister island to Tahiti. His death certificate suggests they had a child:
On 6th January 1819 Mary died in childbirth and the baby five days later.
After a while the Rev. J. Orsmond went to Sydney to search for another wife. He did not want to marry a native as some of the missionaries had done. On 24th December 1819 he married Isabella Nelson who was a teacher in Rev. Samuel Marsden's Sunday School. She bore him ten children and was his right hand in the missionary work and his sympathetic companion throughout his life.
Isabella died in 1854 aged sixty and is buried in Papeete Cemetery. John Orsmond was naturally a strange mixture. He was a scholar and an indefatigable worker, sparing neither himself nor anyone else; an able leader, not an aristocrat, which was evident in many of his actions. His family remembered him as a kind and indulgent father.
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