So in these three cities, a total of 78 males and 78 females had intermarried. While only 25 males and 7 females were married to hearing persons.
In addition and there were over ten deaf children resulting from deaf intermarriages, and only two or three from a marriage of a deaf person to a hearing person ” this being a deaf mother married to a hearing man, and the deaf mother’s father was also deaf.
The statistics given of one in seven offspring of deaf parents being deaf themselves, as opposed to one in 135 offspring of deaf-hearing parents being influenced Dr. Buxton to argue against the desire of deaf people to intermarry.
These statistics were probably available to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell when he raised the spectre of a “deaf variety of the human race”. The Growth of Deaf Missions and Associations.
The founding, and the success, of the first five adult organisations for the deaf in Britain at Glasgow, Edinburgh, London (St. Saviours), Manchester and Leeds prompted many deaf people in other parts of the country to seek the same sort of opportunities for themselves.
In the case of the first one to be founded after 1850 ” Dundee in 1853 ” a deaf person, Alexander Drysdale who was then headmaster of the Dundee School for the Deaf took the lead to establish an adult mission.
This was quickly followed by deaf people in Liverpool (George Healey ” 1864), Birmingham (W.A. Griffiths ” 1867), Stoke-on-Trent a. Davis ” 1868), Cardiff a.
Rowlands ” 1869), Kilmarnock (James Paul ” 1874) and Aberdeen (1879).
Many of these deaf men served the needs of their fellow-men for years ” in George Healey’s case until his death in 1927!
Other missions and adult societies for the deaf were formed by local interested persons, mainly clergymen.
Often and this interest was aroused by the tireless efforts of the Rev. Samuel Smith of St. Saviour’s Church, London, in visiting numerous locations. This was the case in places such as Leicester, Nottingham, and Southampton.
In London it was found that deaf people in East and South London had difficulty in getting to St. Saviour’s Church and so in the same year, 1873 and two new branches were opened ” one at St. Barnabas Church, Deptford (forerunner of Lewisham Deaf Club) and at West Ham. Some societies and such as the Bolton and District Society, and
others at Halifax (1860), Sheffield (1861), and Bradford (1864) were offshoots of the original societies at Manchester and Leeds.
The same was true of Greenock (1870) and Paisley (1874) in Scotland (from Glasgow).
In Northern Ireland and the Kinghan Mission was founded in 1857 in Belfast due to the interests of the Rev. Kinghan who was then Headmaster of the Ulster Institution. The National Deaf and Dumb Society
The rapid growth of adult missions and societies prompted a few determined men led by James Paul to found the National Deaf and Dumb Society in 1879, with James Paul as the first secretary.
Unfortunately and this was short-lived and it folded in 1884 having been torn asunder by internal dissensions, but before its collapse it inaugurated two important undertakings and the Stockton-on-Tees Mission and the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf and Dumb.
The formation of the National Deaf and Dumb Society, however, laid the ground for the foundation of the British Deaf and Dumb Association eleven years later. Deaf Sports Clubs
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