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Date transcribed	2011-08-00
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Marshman
	First Name(s)	Hannah
	Birth Year	1767
	Death Year	1847
	Entry	Daughter of J. Shepherd : born 1767 : married, in 1791, to the Rev. Joshua Marshman (q.v.), and accompanied him to India, reaching Serampur, Oct. 1799 : she superintended the "" Mission Family at Serampur,"" of Carey, Ward, and Marshman : herself established in 1800 a Ladies' School, chiefly for Eurasian girls, many of whom took to missionary work and education. She opened a Native school in 1807. By 1819-24, her Serampur Native Female Education Society managed, in its vicinity, 14 girls' schools, 260 pupils : with a total of 27 schools, 554 pupils. Of her twelve children, six survived. She was the "" first woman missionary to women "" : died at Serampur, March 1, 1847. ,

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