Dorothy Stocker diaries.

Dorothy Stocker nee Bartrum, 1884-1971. Charlotte Amy Dorothy Stocker was the elder sister of the New Zealand geologist John Bartrum. Known as Dorothy she was the eldest of the nine children of Benjamin Packer Bartrum and Charlotte Amy Hayden of Geraldine, Canterbury, New Zealand.

In May 1913 Dorothy travelled to China as an Anglican missionary. In 1917 in T’ai An-Fu, Shantung, North China, she married Rev Ives Theodore Stocker an English missionary with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG). During the 1920s and 30s the couple served at various locations in China including Chefoo (Yantai) and Yenchow.

Dorothy left China in January 1941 and spent the remainder of the Second World War in New Zealand. The Rev Stocker, who was at the time the Chaplain of St Andrew’s, Chefoo, remained in China and was interned by the Japanese in the Weihsien Internment Camp near Chefoo. Stocker survived the War and the couple were reunited in England where they made their home in Coulsdon, Surrey.

The Rev Stocker died in 1960 and Dorothy in 1971.