Amelia Isham Jackman

Letters written, mostly from Cape Coast Castle [Ghana], to her parents; two letters of sympathy to her parents from colleagues; a few Methodist publications which comment on her death; four photographs - two of Amelia Jackman and two of her grave.

Amelia Isham Jackman was born in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, in April 1863 the daughter of Susannah and Albert (the latter a teacher). In 1871 the family were residing in the Parochial School in St Peter, Jersey (her mother's birthplace). By 1891 Amelia Jackman had begun her teaching career as an assistant school mistress in Tonbridge, Kent.

Having been accepted as a candidate for the Women's Auxiliary of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society she departed England on 25 August 1894 as one of the first women sent by them to West Africa. She arrived at Accra [Ghana] in September 1894 and initially taught in the Girls' School. In November she relocated to the Cape Coast [Ghana] to continue her teaching to girls and was due to work in the new facility at Aburi [Ghana] but she contracted 'West Coast Fever' and was taken ill on 6 December. She died on 13 December 1894 having been in West Africa less than three months.

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Material sent to the Methodist Missionary Society by William Thomas Jackman, 5/1/[19]60

A typed transcript of Amelia Jackman's diary - covering the period of when she departs from England (25/8/1894) to just before her death (2/12/1894) - is available (MMS/Special Series/Notes & Transcripts/FBN 6 (item 63)).