ID14628
CollectionIrish Baptist Home and Foreign Mission
Collection DescriptionIncludes 12 boxes of correspondence containing files labelled with the correspondent's name and the date of the correspondence and including a list of contents. Includes: Box labelled, 'I. B. F. M. [Irish Baptist Foreign Mission] Missionaries' Correspondence, 1924-1936'. Box labelled, 'I. B. F. M. [Irish Baptist Foreign Mission] Home Correspondence, 1935-1945'. Box labelled '[Pastor F] Gracey correspondence, 1924-1934'. Box labelled, 'I. B. F. M. [Irish Baptist Foreign Mission] Missionaries' Correspondence, 1934-1945'.
Reference
Description

A file containing letters to and from Mr and Mrs Sarah Oehring, 1928-1929.

For example:
A letter from Mrs Sarah Oehring, Urubamba, Southern Peru to Mrs Shields asking for blankets, sheets and a clock to be sent, 'we were sorry to part with ours on our leaving the country for furlough, but it had to go to make up the cost of four fares on the passage home, all our things went the same way. I can say that never in my life before have we made known our wants, but we must be straight and tell you we need your help now', 16 March 1928.

AccessContact Repository.
Date1928-1929
Century20th
Keywords
Repository NameAssociation of Baptist Churches in Ireland
AddressThe Baptist Centre 19 Hillsborough Road Moira County Antrim
UK Postal CodeBT67 0HG
Telephone+44 28-9261-9267
Email Addressinfo@irishbaptistcentre.org
Repository Web Addresshttps://www.baptistsinireland.org/
CommentSome of the information listed from this repository was extracted from lists available in the archives in the late 1990s. The lists were compiled by the Irish Baptist Historical Society and we are grateful for their assistance. Due to time constraints not all items in this repository were examined individually.

Formerly the Baptist Union of Ireland. In 2014, the Irish Baptist College in Moira transferred records relating to 10 Baptist churches to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.
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longitude-6.19111