Stallybrass , Edward , c1793-1884 , missionary
Stallybrass , Charlotte , 1808-1839 , née Ellah , wife of the missionary Edward Stallybrass

Edward Stallybrass: born at Royston, England, 1793 or 1794; studied at Homerton College; appointed London Missionary Society (LMS) missionary to Siberia and was ordained at Stepney, 1816; married Sarah Robinson (d 1833); travelled via Cronstadt and St Petersburg to Moscow, 1817-1818; joined there by Cornelius Rahm from Göteburg; granted an audience by the Czar, Alexander I, who showed support for their work; reached Irkutsk with Rahm and made an exploratory tour to Werchney, Oudinsk, Selenginsk and Kiachta, on the south-eastern side of the Baikal, 1818; with his wife, settled at Selengisnk among the Buriat people and founded a mission station, 1819; made a tour into the country of the Chorinsky Buriats, 1822; moved from Selenginsk to Khodon, 1828; with his two sons, left Khodon, 1834; married secondly Charlotte Ellah of Elsinore (1808-1839) in Copenhagen and travelled to London before returning to St Petersburg, 1835; spent time in St Petersburg revising the Mongolian scriptures; returned to Khodon, 1836; completed and published his translation of the Old Testament into Mongolian, 1840; when the work of the LMS in Russia was suppressed by decree of the Orthodox synod Stallybrass returned to England and retired from the LMS, 1841; his revision with William Swan (1791-1866, another LMS missionary at Seleningsk) of the Mongolian version of the New Testament (originally produced by the Russian Bible Society, 1824) was published, 1846; briefly headmaster of the Boys' Misson School, Walthamstow; pastor at Hampden Chapel, Hackney; his third wife was Sarah Bass; pastor at Burnham, Norfolk, 1858-1870; married fourthly Mary Ann Oughton (d 1874), 1861; died at Shooter's Hill, Kent, 1884; buried at Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington. Publications: translation of the Old and New Testaments into Mongolian; Memoir of Mrs Stallybrass, with an introduction by J Fletcher (London, 1836).