Thomas Slatyer

  General Notes:

Ordained Brixton Hill Chapel, 30 July 1839

Missionary in Samoa 1839-1845. Left England 3 Aug 1839, arriving Sydney Christmas Day 1839. Arrived at Tutuila, Samoa aboard the 'Camden' on 14 March 1840; one month later at Leone.



Returned to Sydney August 1842-January 1843 on account of his wife's serious illness (son William Henry, aged nearly 2, died on this return voyage. Took up post at Upola on return to Samoa. In 1845 the state of his wife's health compelled them
to return to England, arriving 9 July 1846.



Minister at the Southfield Methodist Church, Paignton, Devon for two years



Obituary by Nathaniel Rogers in his "Obituaries of Eminent Persons" Volume 2, is held in the Wellcome Library of the British Archives, see

http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=2928&inst_id=20

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Congregationalist Minister.

• Education: Western Academy, Exeter.

Thomas married Amelia Anstie on 1 Aug 1839. (Amelia Anstie was born in 1817 and died in 1851.)