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Lilburne, Anne E. (Sister Annie)
Full NameLILBURNE, Sr Anne (Annie)
Biography
Educated at Hunterville Public School, then two years business training at Auckland Commercial College.
Trained as a Nurse at Auckland Hospital and at St. Helen’s Hospital.
Theological training at Presbyterian Women's Training Institute 1935-1937
Missionary China; Ordained as a Deaconess and set apart for Mission service 1937.
Sailed for China 29 November 1937
Arrived China 1 January 1938 — to Cheung Chau language school.
Kong Chuen 1939 — interned in Canton 25 February 1943 till 31 August 1945;
Back in Kong Chuen, then New Zealand furlough 1946 — returned to Kong Chuen 14 February 1947
Work at Po Wai Hospital at Kong Chuen included supervising maternity work, running Mother’s Clubs for mother-craft and infant welfare teaching, caring for abandoned, orphaned and needy babies, and some time spent teaching and instructing in the Po Wai Hospital School of Nursing. Also undertook health care work in surrounding villages.
Left China for Hong Kong 12 April 1951 when all Missionaries were obliged to leave China by the Communist Government.
Visited Great Britain for Post Graduate study 1951.
Returned to New Zealand 21 April 1952 via New Hebrides where she had been offered further Medical Mission Service.
New Hebrides, appointed nurse in charge of Cottage Hospital & general nursing, Tongoa arrived 18 September 952. Duties included care of patients in hospital, health clinics in the villages, and a general programme of health education.
Returned to New Zealand 20 December 1966 and retired 30 April 1967
Author of autobiography I Went Out Not Knowing.
Biography- born Clevedon, South Auckland 28 September 1910
- daughter of John Robert LILBURNE and Elizabeth Helen CRAWFORD
- died 1998
Educated at Hunterville Public School, then two years business training at Auckland Commercial College.
Trained as a Nurse at Auckland Hospital and at St. Helen’s Hospital.
Theological training at Presbyterian Women's Training Institute 1935-1937
Missionary China; Ordained as a Deaconess and set apart for Mission service 1937.
Sailed for China 29 November 1937
Arrived China 1 January 1938 — to Cheung Chau language school.
Kong Chuen 1939 — interned in Canton 25 February 1943 till 31 August 1945;
Back in Kong Chuen, then New Zealand furlough 1946 — returned to Kong Chuen 14 February 1947
Work at Po Wai Hospital at Kong Chuen included supervising maternity work, running Mother’s Clubs for mother-craft and infant welfare teaching, caring for abandoned, orphaned and needy babies, and some time spent teaching and instructing in the Po Wai Hospital School of Nursing. Also undertook health care work in surrounding villages.
Left China for Hong Kong 12 April 1951 when all Missionaries were obliged to leave China by the Communist Government.
Visited Great Britain for Post Graduate study 1951.
Returned to New Zealand 21 April 1952 via New Hebrides where she had been offered further Medical Mission Service.
New Hebrides, appointed nurse in charge of Cottage Hospital & general nursing, Tongoa arrived 18 September 952. Duties included care of patients in hospital, health clinics in the villages, and a general programme of health education.
Returned to New Zealand 20 December 1966 and retired 30 April 1967
Author of autobiography I Went Out Not Knowing.
Lilburne, Anne E. (Sister Annie). Presbyterian Research Centre, accessed 07/12/2025, https://pcanzarchives.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/112772
