page_title: Marianne Williams
section_title: The Paihia mission
hierarchical_section_title: Marianne Williams / The Paihia mission
caption_attribution_description: English: Headstones of Henry Williams and Marianne Williams at Holy Trinity Church Pakaraka New Zealand
context_page_description: Marianne Williams, together with her sister-in-law Jane Williams, was a pioneering educator in New Zealand. They established schools for Māori children and adults as well as educating the children of the Church Missionary Society in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. The Māori women called her Mata Wiremu.
context_section_description: The missionary work of Henry Williams and his attempts to act as peacemaker in intertribal conflicts meant that he spent months at a time travelling through the North Island of New Zealand.  Marianne shared mission responsibilities with her sister-in-law, Jane Williams, together they cared for and educated their families.   Together with Jane Williams, Marianne set up a boarding school for Māori girls; and provided classes to the children of CMS missionaries in the morning with schools for Māori children and adults in the afternoon. Schools were established in the communities inland from the Bay of Islands. Marianne trained and supervised the teachers, who included the wives of other CMS missionaries, her daughters, nieces or future daughters-in-law. In 1832 Marianne and Janes Williams, together with Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Fairburn, and Mrs. Puckey, continued in charge of the Native Girls' School, and of an Infant School at Paihia.
  The domestic responsibilities of Marianne extended beyond her large family and included Māori and Pakeha visitors to the mission as well as providing assistance to other CMS members in Paihia, Kerikeri and Waimate North. Marianne and Henry had eleven children:
  Edward Marsh (2 November 1818 – 11 October 1909). Married Jane Davis, daughter of CMS missionary the Revd Richard Davis.
  Marianne (28 April 1820 – 25 November 1919). Married CMS missionary the Revd Christopher Pearson Davies.
  Samuel (17 January 1822 – 14 March 1907). Married Mary Williams, daughter of William and Jane Williams.
  Henry (Harry) (10 November 1823 – 6 December 1907). Married Jane Elizabeth Williams (also a daughter of William and Jane).
  Thomas Coldham Williams (18 July 1825 – 19 May 1912). Married Annie Palmer Beetham, daughter of William Beetham.
  John William (6 April 1827 – 27 April 1904). Married Sarah Busby, daughter of James Busby.
  Sarah (26 February 1829 – 5 April 1866). Married Thomas Bidulph Hutton.
  Catherine (Kate) (24 February 1831 – 8 January 1902). Married the Revd Octavius Hadfield.
  Caroline Elizabeth (13 November 1832 – 20 January 1916).  Married Samuel Blomfield Ludbrook.
  Lydia Jane (2 December 1834 – 28 November 1891).  Married Hugh Carleton.
  Joseph Marsden (5 March 1837 – 30 March 1892).
caption: Gravestones of Henry and Marianne Williams, Holy Trinity Church, Pakaraka
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