which William Carey and his wife looked after his four boys; aged 4, 7, 12 and 15, they were unmannered, undisciplined, and even uneducated. Carey had not spoiled, but rather simply ignored them. Marshman, her husband and their friend the printer William Ward, took the boys in tow. Together they shaped the boys as Carey pampered his botanical specimens, performed his many missionary tasks and journeyed into Calcutta to teach at Fort William College. They offered the boys structure, instruction and companionship. To their credit – and little to Carey's – all four boys went on to useful careers. At one point, Marshman wrote about Carey, "The good man saw and lamented the evil but was too mild to apply an effectual remedy." Serampore College and the Serampore Girls' School On 5 July 1818, William Carey, Joshua Marshman and William Ward issued a prospectus (written by Marshman) for a proposed new "College for the instruction of Asiatic, Christian, and other youth in Eastern literature and European science". Thus was born Serampore College – which still continues to this day. Mrs. Marshman went on to found the local girls' school. Death and memorial Hannah Marshman died in 1847. The following inscription to her memory is placed in the Mission Chapel at Serampore: "In Memory of Hannah Marshman, widow of Joshua Marshman, D. D. the last surviving Member of the Mission Family at Serampore, she arrived in this settlement in October 1799, and opened a seminary to aid in the support of the Mission in May 1800, after having consecrated her life and property to the promotion of this sacred cause and exhibited an example of humble piety and energetic benevolence for forty-seven years. She died at the age of eighty, March 5, 1847." The full text of her obituary in the Bengal Obituary can be found here. References Further reading External links Obituary at William Carey University 1767 births 1847 deaths Schoolteachers from Bristol English Baptist missionaries Baptist missionaries in India Bengal Presidency Missionary educators Female Christian missionaries 19th-century Baptists British Indologists British people in colonial India Scholars from West Bengal