'A Goodly Heritage: Murray Culshaw's Family 1640-2010'

This material is held atSchool of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Archives, University of London

  • Reference
    • GB 102 MMSL MSS/047
  • Dates of Creation
    • June 2011
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 106 pages

Scope and Content

A self-published history of the Culshaw family, including three generations of Methodist missionaries to India, by Murray Culshaw. Includes numerous photographs of the family, colleagues, places of work, etc, as well as reproductions of family and public documents.

Administrative / Biographical History

Murray Joseph Culshaw (1939- ), lay Methodist missionary in Mysore, India, 1964-1972 and aid worker. Son of Rev. Wesley James Culshaw (1904-1975), (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society missionary to India. Grandson of Rev. Joseph Culshaw (1871-1915), Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society missionary to India.

Freda Bernadine Cox (1901-1980) also served the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society in their Bengal District in India from 1925 to 1950 working in education. She married Wesley Culshaw in 1929. Her sister, Lilian Edith (1898-1984), undertook similar work in the same area between 1923 and 1938 and their father, Frank (1867-1950), was a Methodist minister in Great Britain

Access Information

Open

Acquisition Information

Gift, accepted on behalf of the Methodist Church, from author, October 2011

Archivist's Note

Catalogued

Conditions Governing Use

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