The University of London surgeon and Oxford graduate who was overseeing the ironworks was Francis McDougall and she married him in Llanelli in July 1843.

[1] McDougall was offered a position as a missionary to go out to join James Brooke who had recently been installed as the White Rajah in an area of Borneo known as Sarawak.

[1] The McDougalls sailed for six months as missionaries for Borneo via the Cape and Singapore on 30 December 1847 and arrived in Sarawak on 29 June 1848.

They created an orphanage and schools and in return they received criticism from the White Rajah and his secretary.

She records the local flora and fauna and notes places like Buntal Bay which were then only home to wildlife.