Abbreviations - Missionary settlement in southern Africa

ABCFM: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (USA)

AG: Foreign Missions Department, General Council of the Assemblies of God, Inc (USA)

BC: Foreign Mission Board of the Bretheren in Christ of the USA and Canada (USA)

BFBS: British and Foreign Bible Society (England)

Bn: Berlin Missionary Society (Germany)

BPA: Bethal Pentacostal Assembly (USA)

BPKN: Board of the Protestant Churches in Netherlands Indies

CDBM: Cape Diocesan Board of Missions (Province of the CGH)

CMML: Christian Missions in Many Lands (England)

CN: General Board of Foreign Missions, Church of the Nazarene (USA)

CUSA: Congregational Union Church Aid and Missionary Society of South Africa (Transvaal)

DGT: Diocese of Grahamstown (Cape of Good Hope)

DKK: Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman (South Africa)

DNa: Diocese of Natal (South Africa)

DRCSA: General Mission Committee of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (Cape of Good Hope)

DRCSAO: General Mission Committee of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State

DRCSAT: General Mission Committee of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa, Church of the Transvaal

ECS: Board of Foreign missions of the Representative Church Council of the Episcopal Church in Scotland

FBS: Scandinavian Independent Baptist Union (Sweden)

FCS: Free Church of Scotland Foreign Mission

FMA: General Mission Board of the Free Methodist Church of North America (USA)

FMS: Finnish Missionary Society

HS: Holiness Union (Sweden)

HFMA: Hephzibah Faith Missionary Association (USA)

HM: Hermannsburg Evangelical Lutheran Missionary Society (Germany)

HUR: Board of Foreign Missions of the International Apostolic Holiness Union and the Revivalist Church

IHM: International Holiness Mission (England)

IL: Ikwezi Lamaci Mission (Natal)

Ind: Independent

LMS: London Missionary Society

MC: Trustees of MacKenzie College, Sao Paolo, Brazil (USA)

MEFB: Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church (USA)

MGB: Missionary Society of the German Baptists in Berlin

MHLF: Mission of the Hanoverian Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (Germany)

MMAN: Maritzburg Mission Association for the Diocese of Natal

Mor: Moravian Missions (International)

MorG: Mission Board of the Moravian Church (Germany)

MR: Mission Romande: Mission Board of the Free Churches of Free Switzerland

MSR: Swiss Evangelical Mission to Shangaan Tribes

NBC: Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention (USA)

NFEH: Norway’s Free Evangelical Mission to the Heathen

NMF: Norwegian Mission Union

NMS: Norwegian Missionary Society

PEMS: Paris Evangelical Missionary Society

PCSA: Native Missions Committee of the Presbyterian Church of South Africa (Cape of Good Hope)

PH: General Mission Board of the Pentecostal Holiness Church (USA)

PMMS: Primitive Methodist Missionary Society (England)

Rc: Roman Catholic Missions (International)

RM: Rhenish Missionary Society (Germany)

SA: Salvation Army (England)

SABMS: South African Baptist Missionary Society (Cape of Good Hope)

SACIM: South African Compounds and Interior Mission (Transvaal)

SAF: South African Missionary Society (Cape of Good Hope)

SAGM: South African General Mission (International)

SAM: Scandinavian Alliance Mission of North America (USA)

Sch: Norwegian Mission Church of Schreuder

SDA: General Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Denomination (USA)

SFM: Swedish Free Mission

SKM: Church of Sweden Mission

SPG: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (England)

SSJE: Cowley, Wantage and All Saints Missionary Association (England)

SvAM: Swedish Alliance Mission

UFS: Foreign Mission Committee of the United Free Church of Scotland

WMMSW: Women’s Auxiliary of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (England)

WMS: Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (England)

ZMD: Zululand Missionary Diocese in the Province of South Africa

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