Round the World Families

Round the World Families published by the London Missionary Society, c.1945. The game has 48 cards with 12 sets of four cards representing places around the world where the Society’s missionaries have carried out missions among the local population. Each of the families of four has a picture of local people and how they were being helped and a picture of one of the missionaries from past or present who had been connected to the place illustrated. The game is played like ‘Happy Families’. See the Rules►

Here is a list of those missionaries and the title of the place depicted: Calcutta, Hannah Mullens (1826–1861) • Erode, R A Hickling (1868–1936) • Gilbert Islands, W E Coward dates unknown • Hankow, Griffith John (1831–1912) • Mbereshi, David Livingstone (1813–1873) • Papua, James Chalmers (1841–1901) • Samoa, John Williams (1796–1839) • Serowe, Khama (1837?–1923) • Shanghai, Dr Lockhart (1811–1896) • Tananarne, David Jones (1796–1841) • Tiger Kloof, Dr Willoughby (1857–1938) • Travancore, Ringeltaub (!770 - ?).