Background
Her father, Robert Moffat, was a Scottish Congregationalist missionary who worked among the Bechuana people at Kuruman.
Her father, Robert Moffat, was a Scottish Congregationalist missionary who worked among the Bechuana people at Kuruman.
Foreign the lady-in waiting to Mary, Queen of Scots see Mary Livingston
Mary was born in Griquatown, about 93 miles north of Kimberley. When the family returned to South Africa, she taught in the school at Kuruman where she met David Livingstone. The couple lived initially in Kolobeng, North West Province.
She accompanied Livingstone on his two journeys across the Kalahari desert in 1849 and 1850.
She did not go on Livingstone"s first expedition to the Zambezi, 1853–1856, because she lived in Britain for four years for the sake of the children"s education. Livingstone joined her in Britain from 1856 to 1858.
Returning to Africa she met Livingstone at the mouth of the Zambezi, but fell ill in the camp at Shupanga and died there on 27 April 1862.