Thomas (Rev) Chapman was born on 20 June 1792 in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, ENG, p 417, 438.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 He and
Anne Maria Maynard were married on 14 December 1822 in St Marys, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, ENG.
1 He and
Mary Jane Moxon were married on 19 December 1856 in Auckland, NZ.
1 He died on 22 December 1876, at age 84, in Mokoia Island, Rotorua, NZ.
1 Thomas (Rev) Chapman was a CMS lay missionary.
1 See word document
no children DNZB
Lay Missionaries with CMS. First Mission at Paihia, B of I, then Te Koutu, Rotorua then Mokoia Island, Rotorua, Te Ngae,Rotorua.
made donation to Christ Church building fund. living BOI 1834
see word file CHAPMAN
Thomas Chapman and Anne Marie Maynard were both born in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire where they also married. They had no children, and in 1830 when both close to forty years old, they came to New Zealand as lay missionaries to the Church Missionary Society (CMS) at Paihia, Bay of Islands. For a time the Chapman's worked at Kerikeri, he as the mission storekeeper and she as a teacher at the mission school.
In September 1835 the Chapman's established a CMS mission station at Te Koutu, on the western shore of Lake Rotorua (between Ohinemutu and Kawaha Point). This mission station is later destroyed during the tribal warfare of August 1836. In 1838 the Chapman's established another mission station on Mokoia Island (Lake Rotorua). From here Thomas travelled to Taupo and Opotiki and was often away for months at a time. Once Anne got over "those nervous fears which have often been such a trial to me" she dispensed food and medicine to the local Maori as well as teaching catechism. Anne's nearest European woman neighbour, Charlotte Brown at Te Papa (Tauranga), was a three day walk away.
By mid 1840 the CMS mission was based at Te Ngae, and during the next decade Thomas and Anne entertained numerous visitors including Roman Catholic Bishop Pompallier as well as Governor Sir George Grey and Bishop George Augustus Selwyn (1809-78). While at Te Ngae Anne visited the Pink and White Terraces at Rotomahana, and was probably the first European woman to do so.
To establish their fourth mission station, Thomas Chapman applied for ten acres of the government purchase of land at Wharekahu, Maketu. The deed was eventually granted in September 1848 and in 1851 the Chapman's moved permanently to Maketu, even though they had been spending the winters there. Again they entertained many visitors though both Thomas and Anne did not enjoy good health. Anne died at Maketu on the 12 December 1855 aged 64. Four Maori women long resident at the Maketu mission bore her coffin to the grave. (Her grave was upgraded by the Historic Places Trust for the 1990 Celebrations. The inscription reads "Ko Mata" - Mother.)
Thomas married again but 1861 the Chapman's left for Auckland where for some years he taught at St Stephens School at Parnell. He died on 22 December 1876 while on a visit to Mokoia Island. He was 85 years old.
Sources:
Wharekahu CMS Mission Station Maketu - The Chapman's - 1845-1861-Alister Matheson -
Historical Review Vol 49 No 1 May 2001
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Volume One (1769-1869) 1990
http://www.kinderlibrary.ac.nz/
COLENSO visited 1841 NMT
Kerikeri 1830, Pahia 1833, Rotorua 1835 & Taupo. AMID. He immigrated to Arab from London to Sydney then Active arriving Paihia, NZ jul 1830, in 1830.
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