Mathison Congregational Church (Croydon, N.S.W.) records, 1873-1968

MLMSS 2441

fonds

422526

Microfilm : Marriage registers, 1873-1962 & baptisms register, 1951-1964).

30 volumes, 11 boxes, 9 folders, 2 portfolios and 1 slip box of textual material, including outsize material - manuscript, typescript, printed

The church was formed as the Croydon Congregational Church in 1879 with the Reverend Walter Mathison as its first minister. From 1913 to 1919 the new church at Epping was worked in conjunction with Croydon Church and again in 1955 Croydon was sharing its minister with the church at Sunnyside. The name of the church was altered in 1921 to the Mathison Congregational Church

The records consist of minute books, 1879-1963; agenda and summary of deacons' and church meetings, 1900-1906, 1910-1922, 1948, 1955-1956; Annual reports, 1899-1918, 1923, 1952-1956, 1959-1962; registers (baptisms, 1951-1964; marriage, 1873-1891, 1896-1962); weekly offering registers, 1910-1926, records re church members, 1879-1954; financial records, 1884-1965; correspondence, 1879-1968; records of Mathison Church organisation, 1895-1965; miscellanea, 1875-1962; printed material, 1884-1967

The collection includes pictorial material at PXA 1347

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room (1-219C)<br> -

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (1-219C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

Available for reference