| Description | This collection includes birth and marriage certificates of members of the Blundy family, James Blundy's own certificates, licences and authorities to practise as a lay evangelist, family passports and a copy of James Blundy's will of 1914. There is also an album containing photographs, with captions, of James Blundy, missionary colleagues and scenes of daily life in China as well as a number of loose photographs relating to his missionary service in China. |
| Administrative History | James Blundy (1873-1914) was born in Dent, Yorkshire and served as a Church Army Evangelist before being accepted by the CMS for missionary service in China in 1902. He worked firstly in Kienning, Fukien mission and in Sung-ki from 1906. He married Annie Helen Madeline Tapson in 1906.
Reference: Register of missionaries (clerical, lay & female) and native clergy from 1804 to 1904 (Church Missionary Society, 1905) |
| Custodial History | Deposited with the CMS January 1993 |