George Grenfell: A Light in Congo Darkness.
Marriage and Family:
George Grenfell married Mary
Hawkes, Februrary 11, 1876 in Birmingham during his first short
furlough in England. Having returned to Cameroons in May of that
year, Mrs. Grenfell died shortly after the birth of a stillborn
child (one source says she died early January, 1877).
In 1878, Grenfell married Rose Patience Edgerley, an African bride,
who accompanied him in many of his most adventurous journeys. Their
children included a son who died at 2 months old;
daughter's Patience (Pattie), Carrie, Gertrude (Gertie), Peggie,
and Grace; and other children who died in
infancy. Mrs. Grenfell died in 1899. |
