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Stallybrass, Edward

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 CWM/LMS Europe Personal Box 1

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Stallybrass, Edward

Date(s): 1834-1841

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 folder

Name of creator(s): Stallybrass | Edward | c1793-1884 | missionary
Stallybrass | Charlotte | 1808-1839 | née Ellah | wife of the missionary Edward Stallybrass

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Edward Stallybrass: born at Royston, England, 1793 or 1794; studied at Homerton College; appointed London Missionary Society (LMS) missionary to Siberia and was ordained at Stepney, 1816; married Sarah Robinson (d 1833); travelled via Cronstadt and St Petersburg to Moscow, 1817-1818; joined there by Cornelius Rahm from Göteburg; granted an audience by the Czar, Alexander I, who showed support for their work; reached Irkutsk with Rahm and made an exploratory tour to Werchney, Oudinsk, Selenginsk and Kiachta, on the south-eastern side of the Baikal, 1818; with his wife, settled at Selengisnk among the Buriat people and founded a mission station, 1819; made a tour into the country of the Chorinsky Buriats, 1822; moved from Selenginsk to Khodon, 1828; with his two sons, left Khodon, 1834; married secondly Charlotte Ellah of Elsinore (1808-1839) in Copenhagen and travelled to London before returning to St Petersburg, 1835; spent time in St Petersburg revising the Mongolian scriptures; returned to Khodon, 1836; completed and published his translation of the Old Testament into Mongolian, 1840; when the work of the LMS in Russia was suppressed by decree of the Orthodox synod Stallybrass returned to England and retired from the LMS, 1841; his revision with William Swan (1791-1866, another LMS missionary at Seleningsk) of the Mongolian version of the New Testament (originally produced by the Russian Bible Society, 1824) was published, 1846; briefly headmaster of the Boys' Misson School, Walthamstow; pastor at Hampden Chapel, Hackney; his third wife was Sarah Bass; pastor at Burnham, Norfolk, 1858-1870; married fourthly Mary Ann Oughton (d 1874), 1861; died at Shooter's Hill, Kent, 1884; buried at Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington. Publications: translation of the Old and New Testaments into Mongolian; Memoir of Mrs Stallybrass, with an introduction by J Fletcher (London, 1836).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters, 1834-1841 and undated, of Edward and Charlotte Stallybrass to members of her family, the Ellahs of Elsinore, largely from Khodon, dealing mainly with family affairs, including Charlotte's death.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged chronologically.

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist to item level.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were presented to the School of Oriental and African Studies by Professor Michael Stallybrass, descendant of Edward Stallybrass, via Professor Charles R Bawden in 2001, and form part of the special series of personal papers of individual missionaries and officers among the records of the London Missionary Society.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Photocopies of the letters stored with the originals; there are also photocopies of some genealogical notes.

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the London Missionary Society (Ref: CWM/LMS), including letters from individual missionaries, among them Stallybrass (Ref: CWM/LMS Russia Incoming Correspondence); his candidate's papers (Ref: CWM/LMS Candidates' Papers Box 15 No 41); journal of Stallybrass and C Rahm describing their journey from St Petersburg to Irkutsk (incomplete), 1818, Stallybrass's journal giving an account of the burial festival of the White Month, 1821, and Stallybrass's journal of a tour with W Swan in the country of the Chorinsky Buriats, 1822 (Ref: CWM/LMS Russia Journals Box 1); an engraving of his wife Sarah (Robinson) and a photograph, 1996, of his grave (Ref: CWM/LMS General Portraits Box 5). SOAS also holds photocopies of three letters, 1828, relating to the financial affairs of the LMS mission at Selenginsk, including references to Stallybrass and his fellow missionaries (Ref: MS 380624); and a microfilm of c30 letters, 1813-1847 and undated, mostly from Edward Stallybrass and his first wife Sarah to her sister Ann and brother-in-law Joseph Monds, the subjects including experiences in Russia and missionary work in Khodon, copied from original letters held at Ohio Wesleyan University, USA.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, ed Gerald H Anderson (1998); LMS Register of Missionaries, ed James Sibree; British Library OPAC.