Cheeseman, Thomas. (Rev). - The Story of William Threlfall, Missionary Martyr of Namaqualand, with Some Account of Jacob Links and Johannes Jager Who Fell with Him.

Methodist Publishing Office & Book Room 1910. Rebound gilt in red vynide, new endpapers. 164pp illustrate large 8vo. Binding as new. ff tanned. overall VG+ condition. A member of the Weslyan Methodist Society, Threlfall arrived in the Cape in 1822. He served for a year under the Rev. William Shaw in the Albany District, Eastern Cape before proceeding to Delagoa Bay via Cape Town. Moving to Namaqualand in 1824 he was stationed at Leliefontein. Moving north in 1825 their guides murdered his party thus ending the mission at that point. William Threlfall’s life ended at age twenty-six. He did not leave any organized mission stations, churches, or educational centres which he could claim to have founded, nevertheless the mission station later established at Delagoa Bay bore his name. A memorial was erected on the farm Allgemeine Zeitung, Windhoek, Namibia, on September 14, 1987.

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