Missionary Frederick WS O’Neill

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Debra Bruno, Half a Century of Harvesting Souls in China. China Real Times, Mar 13, 2013.
blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/03/13/half-a-century-of-harvesting-souls-in-china/

Note:
(a) In late 1970s, there was  then "a plastics factory in Manchuria. The factory, located in remote Faku county in northeast China’s Liaoning province, occupied the site where Mr [Mark] O’Neill’s 欧乐年 grandfather, Frederick O’Neill, used to live. The elder Mr O’Neill was an Irish Presbyterian missionary who first moved to Manchuria in search of souls to save in 1897 and ended up staying for 45 years."
(i) 辽宁省沈阳市 法库县
(ii)
(A) Irish Presbyterian Mission "was an Irish Presbyterian missionary society that was involved in sending workers to countries such as China during the late Qing Dynasty." That is all there is in the Wikipedia page.
(B) Samuel Couling, The Encyclopaedia Sinica. Kelly & Walsh, 1917, at page 252
https://books.google.com/books?i ... p;lpg=PA252&dq="Irish+Presbyterian+Mission"+year&source=bl&ots=k25EBPLCD2&sig=j_v4uykw6KP8Uq4kmcG8H9Rp4cA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwADgKahUKEwi85fHg0KTHAhUCMz4KHXmKAvE#v=onepage&q=%22Irish%20Presbyterian%20Mission%22%20year&f=false
("IRISH PRESBYTERIAN MISSION. Headquarters:--Belfast, Ireland. Entered China, 1869. Works in Manchuria.  This mission began in the year after the death of the Rev WC Burns at Newchwang, and in response to his dying appeal. * * * In 1889, The Zenana Mission of the Irish Presbyterian Church began to send out ladies to Manchuria")
* Yingkou  辽宁省营口市
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yingkou
(is also known as Newchwang 牛庄)
* Zenana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenana
(Christian missionaries were able to gain access to the zenanas through the zenana missions; female missionaries who had been trained as doctors and nurses were able to provide these women with health care and also evangelise them in their own homes)
* zenana (n; Hindi & Urdu zanāna, from Persian, from zan woman; First Known Use 1760)
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zenana
(iii) Irish Presbyterian Mission was organized by Presbyterian Church in Ireland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_in_Ireland
(PCI; section 2 History)

(b) "One of the first Protestant missionaries to arrive in the country, Robert Morrison, famously said that he managed just 25 converts in 27 years"

Robert Morrison (missionary)  马礼逊
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morrison_(missionary)
(1782 – 1834 died in Canton; was an Anglo-Scottish evangelist and the first Christian Protestant missionary in China; served for 27 years in China; The only missionary efforts in China were restricted to Guangzhou (Canton) and Macau at this time)
(c) "he was finally expelled at the age of 72 when the Japanese invaded. * * * 'He was expelled in 1942 [by Japanese]' * * * He died in 1952, just ten years after he left his home [in Faku] of 45 years."

Frederick WS O'Neill (1855 - 1952)
(d) "juxtaposing a map of Manchuria with one of Ireland, demonstrating how just one region of China was larger than the entirely of the Emerald Island."

The "entirely" (adv) is a typo, should be "entirety" (n).
(e) Neither Frederick O’Neill nor Dr Isabel Mitchell had a Chinese name.