Talk:John Williams (missionary)

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According to this article by the bbc, the bay where Williams was killed recently had it's name changed from Dillions bay to Williams bay. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/8398126.stm This change is also noted in this article's Missionisation section (in the first paragraph). I think a blurb on this should be added in this article as well. Lukejodonnell (talk) 03:19, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It already mentions it, its the last sentence of the article - Aegoceras (talk) 11:14, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This sentence in the article is wrong: "Mrs. Williams died 14 January 1842 at age 85." This person is actually *the mother* of John Williams' wife, Mary.

I do not agree that "Mrs. Williams" refers to John Williams' mother-in-law for the following sentence states: "She is buried with *their son Rev Samuel Tamatoa Williams, who was born in the New Hebrides*, at the old Cedar Circle in London's Abney Park Cemetery; *the name of her husband and the record of his death were placed on the most prominent side of the stone monument.*" Also, Williams' wife's maiden name was Chawner, not Williams, so her mother would probably be Mrs. Chawner, not Mrs. Williams. However, that date or age must surely be wrong since she would be nearly 40 years older than John Williams. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jgaryellison (talk • contribs) 06:49, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wasn't there a missionary ship named after John Williams? DFH (talk) 12:18, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Found it here John Williams (ship). DFH (talk) 12:21, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For readers interest; I visited the Island of Aitutaki in Cook Islands on January 2018. I thought readers might be interested in seeing this beautiful Church (not black as mentioned in the article). Editor you are welcome to insert in the article but probably not worth the trouble and the photo caption is messy. (Uploading photos to Wiki was harder than I thought). Relevant upload links below.

PLEASE ENJOY

• File:Https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cook Islands Christian Church Arutanga Aitutaki.jpg

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State the purpose for producing this source 203.99.159.227 (talk) 02:15, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]