I was yesterday to Nykarleby, the town where Anna Kempe was born. Or actually in a small village just outside the town. Her familyname is also maybe connected to Juthbacka. In the 1700's a man named Daniel Kempe, his wife Helena, and their son Samuel Kempe owned the yellow house by the riverside. Samuel Kempe had nine children. But that might be a totally different story.
Anna Kempe wrote most of her letters from India to her brother Johannes Kempe in Munsala. He married Amanda Nynäs and they also got many children. One of them my granny Linnéa.
Anna Kempe also wrote letters and columns for several christian magazines. Telling about what she experienced in India. She also there participated in a Bible translating project and wrote articles for a newspaper.
She had studied to be a teacher and a nurse, and besides all her writing she tried to help the women in the area at childbirth for example.
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