The photos in this index were kindly donated
by Jean
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Surname |
Details |
Photo |
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barratt |
john Herbert 1888 age 2 |
10 |
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Donnelly |
William john ross 1856 age 10 son of Capt.
William |
11 |
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grosvener |
Edward 1805-1853 |
10 |
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Hargreaves |
samuel Grosvenor 1870 age 6 |
10 |
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hunt |
William henry born 1809 |
9 |
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jagger |
john
1840 age 10 Mary 1852 age 52 wife of Matthew note second headstone illegible |
12 |
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rumbelow |
godfrey david anne children of malen & alice |
7 |
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storer j s |
Josiah 1856 initials only-possibly josiah storer |
12 8 |
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commemoration plaque to
those persons who have been known to be buried in the cemetery and whose
names cannot be traced. |
6 |
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barratt |
john 1863 |
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barton |
john 1854 |
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Clarke |
mr 1856 |
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fuller |
William 1856 |
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infant 1854 |
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Grosvenor |
Edward 1853 |
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Hargreaves |
samuel 1870 |
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heigh |
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Higgins |
Robert 1855 |
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charles 1854 |
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hyde |
Philip 1847 |
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jagger |
john 1840 |
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jagger |
mary 1852 |
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jagger |
William 1865 |
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jagger |
willie 1935 |
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mcdonald |
eliza
1941 |
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petterman |
john 1845 |
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pollard
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thomas 1855 |
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rumbelow |
david 1859 |
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rumbelow |
ann 1861 |
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rumbelow |
godfrey 1855 |
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south |
emma 1856 |
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storer |
Josiah 1856 |
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swift |
Martha 1920 |
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mrs henry 1853 |
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wise |
john 1854 |
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Further information
The Advertiser, Tuesday 9 July
1918
Church Intelligence – New
Congregational Church
Opened at Newlandtown
Congregationalism in the
Saturday last.The ceremony was performed by Mr Simpson Newland, whose father, the Rev. Ridgeway Newland was
the first minister to labor in that portion of the state. There was a
large attendance to whom Mr Newland was introduced by
the Rev. A C Stevens B.A. Mr Newland, in an interesting address
said the history of Congregationalism in
really began in
later known as Congregational lines. For he, and presumably, many or
most of his following, were strongly opposed as ever
to the religious disabilities to which they, as nonconformists were
subjected. It is doubtless a large sprinkling of the old Puritan
spirit still existing, that in other days took the old Pilgrim Fathers
to
them in surrendering all the comforts and ties of home and begin life
again in a strange far distant land. In being asked to occupy
that position today, he felt that while paying him a compliment they
wished to act in grateful remembrance of his father, the
Rev. R W Newland, the pioneer pastor of the south, so truly named on the
memorial on the wall in the church erected to him in
the town of
without any mention of his more material services. The Sir
Charles Forbes of 400 tons burden, the vessel in which Mr Newland
and party came to
June 7, 1839, thus taking nearly six months on the passage. Immediately
after landing Mr Newland made his way to
or rather the site and presented his letters of introduction to the
Governor (Colonel Gawler), from Lord Glenelg, Secretary of
State for the Colonies. His Excellency strongly advised him to proceed
to
number of sections of excellent land then being surveyed. The Governor
was of opinion that it would ultimately be the second
port in the colony, as the great river
transferred to the Lord Hobart and on or about June 20
arrived in
could call it to mind now. A space was cleared on a wooded rise, in
which the tents for the shelter of the party for a year or
more were pitched. In the midst of them the first place of worship-a
bough shed, principally made of wattles, with probably a canvas
roof was situated. There the pastor preached until the house for the
family was built some yards distant. It was a five roomed building,
consisting of a large centre room, which served as the second place of
worship until the Tabernacle Chapel was available. The house
was without claim to any architectural beauty or much comfort. In fact,
speed in erection was of primary importance and a rude building
of stone obtained near by, with a stringybark paling roof and a rough
stone floor was the result. Later it was extended and improved.
It was however, in some respects set off by the doors, windows and
furniture brought from
considerable improvement on the bough shed for both pastor and people.
His memory carried him back to many services held there.
He felt sure that the preacher felt that the Divine promise “For where
two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the
midst of them” held as good in bough shed and rough room as in church or
palatial cathedral. The Tabernacle Chapel, so named after
the church at Hanley, in Staffordshire, in which the pastor preached for
many years, before he left
a low, nearly square building, with two windows on each side. Within, at
the upper end, a desk made of roughly
polished red gum wood
on a raised platform, about a foot high, was placed for the preacher. he
had often thought he would like to know what became of the two
pillars supporting it on the front. They would be objects of interest.
For a time there was no bell. Then one was obtained somewhere,
probably from among the numerous miscellaneous collection of articles
brought from
and solemnly toiled to call a very scattered congregation to prayer.
From 1839 to March 1864, Ridgeway
William Newland preached the
gospel week by week with only the shortest intervals up to the day of
his tragic death. Including his ministrations in the earlier primitive
erections, the whole service made a period of 25 years, mostly
gratuitous without hope or desire for fee or reward. In addition he was
instrumental in the building of other chapels in remoter parts of the
extensive district in which he frequently preached. He was buried
under the desk from which he preached and prayed so often, but later the
remains were removed to the
chapel had disappeared but he hoped to live to see some pillar, some
modest memorial, placed on a spot of so much historic interest,
where the first church built in the district stood.
“Ay call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, they left
unstained what there they found.” Freedom to worship God.
Since the time the
Congregationalism, the cause for which he labored had prospered. He was
told that the
The necessity for the erection of the building they had opened that day
was evidence of that which appeared convincing. They had his
most cordial wishes that under the blessing of Divine Providence it
might be in every sense a comfort and blessing to all of them.
A silver key having been presented to Mr Newland, on behalf of the
contractor (Mr Bartel) the new
building was formally declared
open. The speakers who conveyed fraternal greetings were Mr C W Rutt (vice president of the
Congregational Union), the
Rev. E Slade, Mr E R Bolger (who has heard every
preacher since the church was established), Mr F Bailey and a
representative of the
Salvation Army. At a sacred concert in the evening the programme was
given by misses I and E Holliday and
E Evens, the Rev. A C Stevens,
Messrs. H & L Smith, N Wellington, W T Martin and the
In another article published in the Advertiser
on 6 October 1910, part of which it stated
“Mr Newland had with him four daughters, his wife’s mother, and two
sisters in law, Dr. Mathew Moorhouse,
and his sister and the
gentleman she subsequently married . He also bought with him 19
immigrants, including Messrs. Michael
Wardle (blacksmith and
wheelwright), William Peacock
(stonemason), Mathew Jagger
(shepherd), Ambrose Taylor
(labourer), John Pollard , Abraham Salt and
Thomas Murray (ploughman)