[3] James Winchester was recorded to live with a local woman, a Manipuri lady known as Maya Memsab from Tarapur village of Silchar.

[4] Mary Winchester possessed a slightly dark complexion, which was explained by her bronzed skin due to staying in the Hills for so long until later reports surfaced the possibility of her mother being Kuki.

Her farewell party was arranged on 23 January at Alexandrapur plantation at the place owned by her father's close friend George Seller.

A reason for the good treatment entailed the novelty of her golden hair, which the Lushai tribesmen believed to possibly signal a heavenly body.

When reports of a three column punitive expedition emerged, a few warriors wished to kill Mary to hide her from the soldiers.

As a result, the MP for Moray and Nairn raised the matter in the House of Commons and led the issue of Mary Winchester's kidnapping to Queen Victoria herself.

The siege started at 08:30 in the morning, and after a few gunshots and shelling, the Mizos found their tribal weaponry no match to such advanced artillery and soon tendered their submission.

The resulting meeting was negatively received by Lewin who referred to her as "stuck-up, conceited little half-caste woman" in a letter to his son.

In a separate letter to Major John Shapespeare he articulates his thoughts on the perception that Mary Winchester was the reason for the advent of Christianity in the Lushai Hills.

[14] Her grandparents provided her with a generous education in England, which enabled her to become a dux of the upper class Elgin Academy.

[18] Mary Winchester eventually met with F.W Savidge in London who made a lecture on the progress of Christianity in the Lushai Hills.

She regularly continued to attend lectures under F.W Savidge and gave her testimony of the headhunting and Bawi system of the Lushai chiefdoms.

Peter Fraser was campaigning against the Bawi system in the Lushai Hills before Mary encouraged him to join the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society.

Fraser published a manuscript titled Slavery on British Territory: Assam and Burma to collate his experience and information on the Bawi system.

[23] She took care of Fraser during his travels to London and helped draft the memorandum of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines's Protection Society to the British government.

Mary Innes Howie cooperated closely with Fraser and the British government to abolish the Bawi system.