Thank you Dorothy, I had thought him to be more permanent as the page I have list baptisms from December 1850 right through to February 1851. Most but not all were performed on Sunday. Russell The HARRIS family Thomas George Harris A Glenpatrick Miner Also...Collins and Carey I'm now mining for information if you can help in any way contact me, Russell on the email address [email protected] ----- Original Message ---- From: MD Ingram <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, 31 August, 2007 8:15:08 PM Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Colac Methodist Church Wesleyan Hi Russell, The first recorded church in Colac was Presbyterian. Services were conducted by the Reverand Gow in 1847 in Hugh Murray's barn - a site now occupied by the Eventide Hostel. When visiting clergy of other denominations were passing through Colac, they used this also. No mention of a Frederick Lewis, perhaps he was one of the passing clergy. cheers Dorothy On 31/08/2007 8:02:00 PM, Russell Harris ([email protected]) wrote: > Thank you Dorothy, > That too is very interesting. It appears that before 1858 there was no > church. > This being the case where would the baptisms have occurred? Would they > have perhaps been at home or perhaps in the house of the minister. > The minister that performed the baptism for Mary Jane Harris in 1851 was > Frederick Lewis. > Regards > Russell > > The HARRIS family > Thomas George Harris > A Glenpatrick Miner > Also...Collins and Carey > I'm now mining for information if you can help in any way > contact me, Russell on the email address > [email protected] > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: MD Ingram <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, 31 August, 2007 7:41:38 PM > Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Colac Methodist Church Wesleyan > > Hi Russell, > > In the book "Forest, Lake and Plain" the following is mentioned. > > "By 1858 there were a number of Methodist families located in the area and the need for a church was felt. The goal was realised by the erection of a stone church built on land donated by Mr. A. Dennis in 1858. In the same year services were held at Ryan's > barn on the south-west corne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For on-line indexes and information on Geelong and District http://www.zades.com.au ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sick of deleting your inbox? Yahoo!7 Mail has free unlimited storage. http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/unlimitedstorage.html