Katherine Watney

Watney was accepted by the CEZMS (Church of England Zenana Missionary Society), a mission which started in India but spread to China.^[1] She was sent to China.

In 1922 at the time of the National Christian conference in Shanghai^[2] she was in Fuzhou, Fujian province. She was Principal of the Church of England Zenana Mission School for Blind Girls in Nantai.

Watney never married. She retired to Limpsfield, Surrey where she had a house in Detillens Lane. She continued her links with China even in England, and cared for many Chinese children.

She died on 10 January 1958 at the Oxted and Limpsfield Hospital, and was buried in Westerham, Kent.^[3]

Watney's sister Constance Watney was a missionary in Uganda with CMS (Church Missionary Society). Her niece, Faith, was a missionary with CMS in Sudan, and married Leonard Sharland. Two of their sons, Roger and David, have also been missionaries in Sudan, as is their grandson, Emmanuel.