When the treaty ports in China were opened (1843) she moved to Ningbo where she opened a school for girls assisted by three teenagers, Mary Ann Leisk, Ruth Ati and Christiana A-Kit. Ruth Ati and Christiana were from Surabaya. Never an agent of any missionary society, Miss Aldersey did maintain close links with the London Missionary Society. Several of _her_ teaching staff were Chinese-speaking daughters of missionaries; at least four became missionary wives, including Burella Hunter Dyer who married John Shaw Burdon, Maria Jane Dyer, who married James Hudson Taylor in 1857 (against Aldersey's wishes). <sep>, Pronoun: her