185:. Her parents Elizabeth and Thomas Leigh were Non-Conformists who attended Wesleyan services, and she joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church at sixteen. By this point the Wesleyan Methodists had long been supporting the effort to promote the marriages of male missionaries living in non-white communities around the world, and the letters from missionary wives abroad were regularly read at church meetings. The Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society begun in 1813 together with the interdenominational British and Foreign Bible Society (founded in 1804) connected the religious fervor of evangelism with the teaching of reason, happiness and civilisation. When Rev.
265:, and she began to manage as many as ten Māori girls training in English-style washing, cleaning and sewing. By 1836, the last year of her journal, Eliza White recorded that seventy women attended prayers with her on Sunday. The rest of the White's children lived to adulthood: Joseph White (born in 1835), Thomas Leigh White (born 1836), and Eliza Leigh White (born 1837). During this time, the mission had grown in congregants - reports of 1000 or more Māori attending worship - and a sawmill post with support for the local Māori's timber trading. However, there were complaints about Rev. White's adulterous conduct with Māori women, and the
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Auckland Ladies Christian Association followed the lead of Dunedin (established in 1878) and Christchurch (established in 1883) to create a Young Women's Christian Association in 1885. A public meeting was held on 18 April 1884 by the leaders of the
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January 1833, a third baby—a girl—died, strangled by the umbilical cord. On 1 August 1834, John Ebenezer White was born—he lived to adulthood. Meanwhile, Eliza White
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Nathaniel Turner and his family to replace the Whites. The White family sailed to England for a short visit for him to plead his case with the Wesleyan authorities, but he was dismissed as a missionary—and so was Eliza White, by association since her missionary work had never been officially
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meetings to organise the process of gathering and handing out clothing to indigent immigrants. They also offered mothers' meetings in impoverished areas of the city to support the health and education of women with young children. Elize White continued to offer her home on
Vincent Street as the
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Vincent Street in Auckland on 25 November 1875. He was 83. His younger son, T. Leigh White, continued in his father's entrepreneurship, striking out on his own in 1882 to become a land agent. and public accountant, serving on the board of the
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Reverend Joseph Sidney Hill, the other men present were not convinced a new organisation just for women was needed. Led by Marianne Leachman and her sister Lucy Hill, the first committee meeting of the Auckland
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William White, died in 1882. About this time, hard of hearing and over 70 years of age, her mother grew ill.
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