Miriam Booth was the granddaughter of Salvation Army founders William and Catherine Booth, and daughter of the second General of the Salvation Army, Bramwell Booth.

She was born June 8, 1887, the third of seven children.  Her father was Bramwell Booth, and her mother was Florence Sopher Booth.  Miriam's full name was Florence Miriam Booth, no doubt after her mother, but she was known to her family as Mira.  Miriam was born just a few years after her mother and father led a movement to stop human trafficking in Victorian England and raise the age of consent from 13 years old to 16 years old.

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Her mother, Florence, was by all accounts a very good mother with a youthful enjoyment of life and of her children.  Every day, no matter how tired or weary she was after a busy day working for the Salvation Army, she always took time to simply enjoy her kids.

​Miriam's father was busy at the right hand of General Booth, leading the Salvation Army forward according to the call of God.  Bramwell was hard working, intense, dedicated, and fully committed to the Lord.  In addition, he was known for being both sweet and gentle.

Bartholomaus faced an incredible amount of opposition from various sources, including the governor of the colony of Tranquebar, the Danish colonists that lived there, and even from the religious leaders of his own denomination.

Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg was born in Pulsnitz, Saxony, in southeast Germany, on July 10, 1682.  His parents were devout Christians, who discovered their young son was quite gifted in music.  This led to him being sent to the University of Halle where studied under August Herman Francke.

Around 1705, King Frederick IV of Denmark went through a time of soul-searching after his mistress died in childbirth.  Out of this came a desire to send forth and finance two missionaries to India.  One of the men he consulted with was Francke, who highly recommended two students known for their piety:  Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg and Hienrich Plütschau.  Their destination was the Danish East India Company colony of Tranquebar in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.