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Hannah Marshman (13 May 1767, Bristol - 5 March 1847, Serampore, India) was a missionary. She was the daughter of John Shepherd, a farmer, and his wife Rachel, and the granddaughter of John Clark, pastor of the Baptist church at Crockerton, Wiltshire.〔Thomas Hamilton, "Marshman, Joshua (1768–1837)", rev. Michael Laird, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 16 August 2007 )〕 Her mother died when she was eight. In 1791 Hannah Shepherd married Joshua Marshman. In 1794, the married young couple moved from Westbury Leigh in Wiltshire to Bristol, where they joined the Broadmead Baptist Church. The couple were to eventually have 12 children; of these only five lived longer than their mother. Hannah is considered to be the first woman missionary in India.〔'Hannah Marshman', http://www.missionariesoftheworld.org/2011_07_01_archive.html〕 ==Leaving for India== On 29 May 1799, Hannah and Joshua, and their two children set out from Portsmouth for India aboard the ship ''Criterion''. Although there was a threat of a French naval attack the family landed safely at the Danish settlement of Serampore (a few miles north of Calcutta) on 13 October 1799. They had chosen to land here because the East India Company was still hostile to missionaries, they settled in the Danish colony at Serampore and were joined there by William Carey on 10 January 1800. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hannah Marshman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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