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Florence young biography

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  • Florence Young

    New Zealand-born memoirist and missionary

    Florence Selina Harriet Young (10 October 1856 – 28 May 1940) was a New Zealand-born missionary who established the Queensland Kanaka Mission in order to convert Kanaka labourers in Queensland, Australia.

    In addition, she conducted missionary work in China and the Solomon Islands.

    Life

    Young was born in Motueka, South Island, New Zealand, the fifth child of an English farmer. Her parents were both Plymouth Brethren.

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    She was educated at home in addition to two years in a boarding school in England.

    She moved to Sydney, Australia in 1878, and in 1882 to Fairymead, a sugar plantation near Bundaberg, Queensland owned by her brothers Arthur, Horace, and Ernest Young.

    She started holding prayer meetings for the families of the planters, which became the Young People's Scriptural Union. Eventually the group attracted 4000 m a chrysalis to illustrate the resurrection.

    In 1886 she founded the Queensland Kanaka Mission (Q