Marianne Williams, together with her sisterinlaw Jane Williams, was a pioneering educator in New Zealand. They established schools for Mori children and adults as well as educating the children of the Church Missionary Society in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. The Mori women called her Mata Wiremu .
Marianne Williams, ne Marianne Coldham, was born in Norwich, England,December 1793. Marianne was the oldest child of Wright and Anne Coldham. Wright Coldham and Thomas Williams were hosiers in Nottingham, and both were Sheriffs. The family had moved to Nottingham from Norwich. Her father, Wright Coldham, was an active member of the Presbyterian High Pavement Chapel in Nottingham. Wright Coldham received recognition as a Burgess of Nottingham in 1796 as a Sheriff of Nottingham in 1798 and as the Mayor of Nottingham in 1809. In 1810 Anne Coldham died and at the ageMarianne took over raising her three sisters, Sarah, Maria and Anne, her blind grandmother Mrs Temple, the running of the mayoral household and acting as Lady Mayoress at civic events. In 1815 Wright Coldham died.
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