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Mary Livingstone (née Moffat; 12 April 1821 – 27 April 1862) was the wife of the Scottish Congregationalist missionary David Livingstone. She was a linguist, an experienced traveller, and managed the household affairs including missionary stations and infant school. Mary was fluent in Tswana, the language of the BaTswana people.
Mary Moffat born Mary Smith (1795 – 9 January 1871) was a British missionary who became a role model for women involved in missionary work. She was the wife of Robert Moffat, the mother of Mary Moffat Livingstone and David Livingstone was her son-in-law.
On 9th January 1845, in the church at Kuruman in Bechuanaland*, Mary Moffat and David Livingstone were married. Aged 23, she was the African-born daughter of missionaries Robert and Mary Moffat; he was the 31-year-old son of a Sunday school teacher from Blantyre in South Lanarkshire.
The first place on the roll of these elect women belongs to Mary Moffat. She has a double claim to honour as the wife of Robert Moffat and the mother of Mrs. Livingstone. Her father, James Smith, was a native of Perthshire, who had crossed the Border and married Mary Gray, of York, in 1792.
Mar 15, 2013 · BORN in 1821 on her father's mission station at Kuruman, 800 miles north of Cape Town, Mary Moffat was well accustomed to life in the bush when she met and married Livingstone at the age of 24. The names of her pioneering parents still evoke reverence from many African Christians.
Jul 25, 2015 · Mary Livingstone crossed the Kalahari desert and endured extreme hardship on expeditions with her husband David, but her life was overshadowed by his fame. Her grave in Mozambique testifies to...
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by John Telford. In December, 1818, when Mary Smith had at last gained her parents' permission to go out to South Africa to join her future husband, Robert Moffat, she wrote from Manchester, where she was staying, to cheer them in view of the coming separation.
