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237: 374: 312: 44: 334:(WCTU NZ) in 1885, serving as the superintendent of education. In January 1887, she was elected to the presidency of the Auckland branch, serving until 1897. She was appointed to the national superintendency of scientific temperance instruction in schools at the WCTU convention in March 1887. In March 1892 she was elected national president and served through 1901. Due to her extensive experience with Māori people and fluency in the language, she became the WCTU national superintendent of Maori work in 1898. She was also on the board of their publication, 165: 281: 245: 209:, Warwickshire, England on 22 November 1835, the eldest daughter of Elizabeth Dodd (1808–1881) and Edward Allen (1811–1891). Edward owned a farm and, according to the 1861 England census, together with his wife ran a draper business. Annie Jane Allen was a milliner. Her younger siblings were Mary Elizabeth Allen Hooper (1837–1933), Thomas (1840–1925), Eliza Allen Pegler (1843–1921), Edward Allen Jr. (1846–1936), and John (1848–1921). 359:
did order temperance textbooks, making the teaching of temperance in schools possible. She campaigned for the age of consent to be raised to 21 "because it ought never to be possible for a girl or woman to consent to her own ruin". She opposed the
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of 1869, which allowed prostitutes but not their clients to be detained for inspection and treatment of sexually-transmitted diseases, because it made it safer for men to sin. She also opposed smoking tobacco and tattoos.
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was passed, Schnackenberg chaired a large celebratory public meeting in Auckland on 28 September 1893. A year later, she chaired a second meeting to report on progress made since the first.
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in November 1861, a difficult journey by bullock dray, canoe and foot which took two weeks. At Kawhia, she assisted Cort Schnackenberg (born 1812) and his wife Amy to save and educate the
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Schnackenberg took strong moral positions in the defence of women. She advocated that temperance become a part of the school curriculum. She was unsuccessful in this, but the
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They remained at Raglan until Cort's health failed in 1880. He died on board ship travelling to Auckland. Annie returned to live at her family's farmhouse with her children.
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She gave up presidency of the WCTU in 1901 as her health declined. She became more ill in 1903, and died on 2 May 1905. She was buried beside her husband in
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Schnackenberg became active in local church affairs, and became a leader of the Pitt Street Methodist Church by 1882. During this time, she would have met
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was formed in 1896. Schnackenberg represented the WCTU at the inaugural meeting in Christchurch, and was appointed a vice-president.
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area of Auckland. Within days of her arrival, Annie signed up to teach in Wesleyan Mission schools on the west coast of the
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New Zealand Alliance for the Suppression and Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic, Auckland chapter managing committee
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and other women later active in social reform for women. She was a foundation member of the Auckland branch of the
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Coney, Sandra (1991). "Annie Schnackenberg". In Charlotte Macdonald, Merimeri Penfold and Bridget Williams (ed.).
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missionary, temperance and welfare worker, and suffragist. She served as president of the Auckland branch of the
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Coney, Sandra (1991). "Eliza White". In Charlotte Macdonald, Merimeri Penfold and Bridget Williams (ed.).
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region at the mission station run by Rev. Cort Henry Schnackenberg (27 November 1812 – 10 August 1880).
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Young Women's Christian Association (WYCA) Auckland, vice-president and acting president for two years
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on European travel in the area decided the church authorities to move the mission further north to
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Cort Henry Schnackenberg : pioneer missionary, 1812–1880 (M.Litt., University of Auckland)
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Auckland Women's Franchise League (which morphed into the Auckland Women's Political League)
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Lucy Jane (1872–1937), married 1899 Samuel Tatton Astley (1876–1956), John's younger brother
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Edward Henry (1869–1953), married 1890 Elsie Jane Evelyn Allen (1876–1921), his first cousin
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in 1896, with Schnackenberg the fourth seated woman from the right (wearing white headgear)
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Auckland Jubilee Kindergarten, subscriber, member of Ladies Committee and then president
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of 1863–1864 disrupted the mission's work, and a subsequent ban imposed by the
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New Zealand Society for the Protection of Women and Children, Auckland chapter
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Katrina Elizabeth (1865–1952), married 1890 John Edward Astley (1861–1962)
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Cort Henry Schnackenberg with his first wife Amy Walsall Schnackenberg
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Sexton, Gladys C. A. (1975). "Mrs A. J. Schnackenberg 1835–1905".
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Schnackenberg was a leader in many other civic organisations:
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From 1865 to 1872 they had three daughters and two sons. The
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Thomas Carl (1871–1953), married 1901 Amy Taylor (1877–1956)
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Prominent member of women's suffrage movement in New Zealand
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The family moved to New Zealand in 1861, travelling on the
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Annie Jane Allen Schnackenberg and her daughters c1896
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Presidents of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
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The Book of New Zealand Women – Ko Kui Ma Te Kaupapa
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The Book of New Zealand Women – Ko Kui Ma Te Kaupapa
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Annie Jane Schnackenberg
Three-quarters profile of woman in black dress and WCTU white ribbon at her neck
Leamington
Warwickshire
Morningside, Auckland

née
Wesleyan
Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand
National Council of Women of New Zealand
Leamington Priors
Mount Albert
Waikato
Eliza White


Kawhia
Māori people

Waikato War
Māori King Movement
Raglan

National Council of Women
Christchurch
Elizabeth Caradus
Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand
National Council of Women
women's suffrage
Department of Education

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