Kissling, Margaret (1808–1891)

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Kissling, Margaret (1808–1891)

New Zealand teacher and missionary. Name variations: Margaret Moxon. Born Margaret Moxon, Aug 18, 1808, in Yorkshire, England; died Sept 20, 1891, in Parnell, New Zealand; dau. of John Moxon (banker) and Margaret (Heaton) Moxon; m. George Adam Kissling, 1837 (died 1865); children: 6.

Returned with husband to teach at missionary station in Sierra Leone, West Africa (1837); helped husband with station at Te Kawakawa (Te Araroa) on East Coast of New Zealand (1843); established boarding school for Maori girls, renamed St. Stephen's School for Native Girls, where she taught, beginning 1846.

See also Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (Vol. 1).