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98445
Surname: Achurch
First Name: George
Ship: -
Date: 1853 12 March
Place: Clarence Town
Source: MM
Details: Witness at the trial of Fitzarthur Hogue, William Smith and Henry Gaggin


142035
Surname: Achurch
First Name: George J
Ship: -
Date: 1867
Place: King Street, Clarence town
Source: Bailliers Official Postal Directory p. 84
Details: Miller


147133
Surname: Achurch
First Name: George Judkins
Ship: -
Date: 1856 23 September
Place: Clarence Town
Source: MM
Details: Marriage of George Judkins Achurch, Victoria Mills, to Miss Sarah Thorley, fourth daughter of Philip Thorley Esq., late of Mount Thorley on 15 September 1856. Minister Rev. A. Wayn


203399
Surname: Adamstown Presbyterian Church
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1903
Place: 105 Teralba-road, Adamstown
Source: NMH 30 March 1903; NMH 5 April 1905; Draft Newcastle LEP 2000 - Heritage Review
Details: ALLOTMENT at corner of Evans and Teralba roads purchased for 70 pounds by the Presbyterians to build a church. DONALD McNaughten was at the head of a willing band of workers who supplied the labour for building the church free of cost. Architect T. J. Pepper presented them with plans of a church free of cost and concerts and bazaars raised enough money to begin. The building was described in 2000 - it is a rare example of a timber church with this level of architectural detail surviving in Newcastle. While the architectural detailing is particularly obvious on the exterior, the interior also retains its arched timber trusses, lining boards to the walls, and the ornate carved pulpit. All other internal furnishings, pews etc. have been removed. The attached hall at the rear appears to be an extension of an original small section that would have been a simple skillion roofed space only the width of the church (indicated by the change in the weatherboards across the rear facade, the different piers, and the absence of ceiling roses of timber dado panelling to the southern end of the space). While there are some other timber churches in Newcastle, most are masonry, timber being more typical of country areas. No other timber churches of a similar age are known, with St Thomas at Carrington and the former St Andrews church at Mayfield being c.1920s, and lacking the ornate carpentry that is such a distinctive feature of the Adamstown church. The building is also very much intact with no obvious modifications except the extension of the hall at the rear, and this does not appear to have caused any alterations to the actual church. Church was later demolished


82572
Surname: All Saints Church Singleton
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 15 March
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: To be conscrecrated by Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Newcastle


84376
Surname: All Saints Church Singleton
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 12 July
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: Marriage of James M Loder of Liverpool Plains to Sarah Jane, eldest daughter of Thomas Cullen of Pelerine Singleton on 9th July. Officiating clergy Rev. James Blackwood


87039
Surname: All Saints Church Singleton
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1851 3 Decmber
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: A 'harmonium' purchased by the congregation of All Saints Church


89037
Surname: All Saints Church Singleton
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1852 20 March
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: Marriage of John Lethbridge, eldest son of Lieut. R. Lethbridge, R.N., to Sarah Jane, eldest daughter of W.D.Kelman of Kirkton on 10th March. Officiating clergy Rev. James Blackwood


91289
Surname: All Saints Church Singleton
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1852 17 July
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: Marriage of Elijah Singleton of John Street to Miss Catherine, 2nd daughter of P. Galvin of Elizabeth Street


203405
Surname: Baptist Church, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Corner McCormick and Sidney (Tyrrell) Streets, Newcastle
Source: Sydney Morning Herald 1893
Details: The old Baptist Church in Sidney-street was no longer needed when the Baptist Tabernacle in Laman-street opened. The Baptist church was used for a soup kitchen and shelter for he destitute poor in 1893. 100 bed were being provided in 1893


203407
Surname: Brown Street Congregational Church, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Brown-street, Newcastle
Source: Brown St. Congregational Church, Newcastle; centenary history 1853-1953 A Centenary History compiled by W. G. Courtman, Church Secretary in 1953 Camden Theological College
Details: The local Congregationalists used to hold services in what was known as the Long Room, then occupying a portion of the site on which Howard Smiths building in Watt Street now stands. At a later date the place of meeting was changed to the old Court House which stood on the site now occupied by the General Post Office. No record is available dealing with the actual building of the Brown Street Church, which was carried out probably about 1853. It seems to be common knowledge that two sites were offered by the Australian Agricultural Company to the little band of Congregationalists, then known as Independents - that which is now occupied by the Australia and New Zealand Bank at the corner of Hunter and Brown Streets, and that upon which the church now stands. Lest we of a later generation should fall into the error of questioning the wisdom of the choice made by the pioneers of Brown Street, it should be clearly understood that one hundred years ago the site which was rejected was not above flood level.


75803
Surname: Catholic Church Singleton
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1850 10 July
Place: Singleton
Source: MM
Details: 300 pounds raised by subscription. Priest's cottage commenced with the walls finished ready to receive roof. Requests for subscriptions for catholics of Liverpool Plains to contribute towards completing the cottage and church


203412
Surname: Christ Church Anglican Cathedral Hall, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1878
Place: 52a Church-street, Newcastle
Source: Wikipedia
Details: Horbury Hunt Hall is a heritage-listed church hall at 52a Church Street, The Hill, Newcastle, City of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by John Horbury Hunt and built in 1878. It is also known as Christ Church Anglican Cathedral Hall. The property is owned by the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999


203410
Surname: Christ Church Burial Ground, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Newcastle
Source: W. H. Huntington in Newcastle Morning Herald 15 April 1897
Details: The opening of the Church of England burial ground dates back some years prior to the foundation of old Christ-Church in 1817. In 1822 it was fenced in, and then comprised nearly three acres


132821
Surname: Christ Church Cathedral
First Name: -
Ship: -
Date: 1904 30 May
Place: Newcastle
Source: SMH
Details: Memorial windows at Christ church unveiled


203409
Surname: Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: -
Place: Church-street, Newcastle
Source: Early Architects of the Hunter Region, A hundred years to 1940 by Les Reedman B.Arch. Dip. Arch. AASTC FRAIA
Details: The first church on this land was built in 1817-18 during Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s time in order to provide religious services for the civil and military officials and convicts who populated Newcastle. Christ Church Cathedral was designed by John Horbury Hunt in the Gothic Revival style. Work commenced on building c. 1884. Other architects who contributed to the design were architects Frederick George Castleden and son Archer Castleden who worked on the completion of Nave and Transept Warriors Chapel, in 1926


204016
Surname: Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 23 September 1863
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Correspondence – To the Minister and Churchwardens of Christ Church Cathedral at Newcastle – Gentlemen – I desire to bring under your notice the disgraceful conduct of certain parties as shown during service on last Sunay evening – conduct the more unbecoming, emanating as it did from those who, in the vanity of this life, wish to be known under the appellation of what is termed vulgarly speaking, Swells or Pure Merinos. Could not some plan be devised for the temporal punishment of these persons who visit Church only, it appears to me, to indulge in their shameful exhibitions of dumb show and laughter etc., I remember in olden times, in the mother country, the sexton of the Church administering a sound knock upon the head of any one misbehaving themselves with a rod he carried about for the purpose, Could such a course be adopted here, I have no doubt these individuals would conduct themselves with more propriety, and the shame attending the blow would to their sensitive natures be quite sufficient temporal punishment – Yours etc. - Pewholder


208268
Surname: Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 20 November 1902
Place: Newcastle
Source: Evening News
Details: To-morrow, His Excellency the State Governor; Sir Harry Rawson, will visit Newcastle, and open the temporarily completed Anglican Cathedral, which occupies a magnificent site in Church- street, and commands an excellent panoramic view of the city and its environs. The history of the Cathedral Church at Newcastle is among the most interesting and important antiquities of Australia. As early as the year 1812, there appears to have been erected on the site occupied by the present edifice a temporary building. In this little church, services were conducted till 1818, when it was replaced by a quaint but substantial building that remained till 1885. The stone that was over the main entrance door, which faced the east, has recently been discover- ed. It is much broken, and bears the date 1817. At first the building had an ambitious spire, which the fierce Newcastle gales defeated, and in 1822 it was pronounced unsafe. Gradually it declined from spire to tower and pinnacles, then to a small belfry till in 1882 the structure was very squat and odd-looking, being, in addition, very unsafe. The Pro-Cathedral was built on the opposite side of the street in 1884. The antiquated little Cathedral was soon afterwards demolished. The Pro-Cathedral, which since 1884 has served as the Cathedral Church, will after the opening of the temporarily finished Cathedral be converted to a Parish Hall


183244
Surname: Christ Church Newcastle
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 5 December 1818
Place: Newcastle
Source: Sydney Gazette
Details: To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette SIR, In my letter to you from Newcastle, dated 5th Aug. last, and inserted in the Gazette on the 15th of the same month, I omitted one particular which I now think ought not to pass unnoticed, as it is an article of information which I conceive may not be unacceptable to some persons of the present age, and may perhaps be interesting even to future generations : it is this - the first stone of the Church at Newcastle was laid by the Commandant, Captain James Wallis, of H. M. 46th Regt. on the 1st January 1817, and on the Christmas Day next following, the said Officer having assembled the people for Public Worship, read to them the Divine Service


82146
Surname: Christchurch Burial Ground
First Name: -
Ship: LH
Date: 1836 April
Place: Newcastle
Source: Backhouse
Details: Iron Gang under an overseer and 3 sentries at work making improvements to the Burial Ground