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Church of England in Australia 1788 to 1901

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Part of a suite of projects this project forms a section of "Religion in Colonial Australia 1788 to 1901".

New South Wales

1823

A Proclamation was published in "The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser" of Thursday 18 December 1823 whereby Governor Thomas Brisbane of NSW advises regarding the Church of England:

  • Reverend Samuel Marsden, Principal Chaplain, and Donald McLeod and Morris Barlow, Esquires, be appointed such Committee for the Church of St. John, Parramatta ;
  • the Reverend William Cowper, and Barron Field and Edward Riley, Esquires, for the Church of St. Philip, Sydney ;
  • the Reverend Robert Cartwright, and Thomas Moore and Henry Colden Antill, Esquires, for the Church of St. Luke, Liverpool ;
  • the Reverend Henry Fulton and Archibald Bell and John McHenry, Esquires, for the temporary Churches of Castlereagh and Richmond ;
  • the Reverend Richard Hill, and John Oxley and James Bowman, Esquires, for the Church of St. James, Sydney [pictured above right in 1836] ;
  • the Reverend John Cross, and William Cox and John Brabyn, Esquires, for the Church of St. Andrew, Windsor ;
  • the Reverend George Augustus Middleton and Edward Charles Close and Henry Gilman, Esquires, for Christ Church, King Town, Hunter's River ; and
  • the Rev. Thomas Reddall, and William Howe and William Browne, Esquires, for the Church of St. Peter, Campbell Town.

Norfolk Island

Queensland

Tasmania

Victoria

Western Australia