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 corner of Murray and Polwarth Streets. A half acre of land was soon purchased in Church Street for five shillings, where a brick Wesley Church was built, being officially opened in 1859". cheers Dorothy On 31/08/2007 7:24:46 PM, Russell Harris ([email protected]) wrote: > Sorry Listers, > My wife has just told me the story of John Wesley founder of the > Methodists... Sorry for my ignorance > > However the church looks to be a new one, the date is given as 1908. > Was this built where the old one stood or was the old one somewhere else > and perhaps has some other use. > does any one know of pictures of the olde church.? > > The time frame I have is > 1850's > > 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: Russell Harris <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, 31 August, 2007 7:04:59 PM > Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Colac Methodist Church Wesleyan > > Thank You Dorothy, > They are great pictures, but I > can't see the Wesleyan church amongst them, can you give me some guidance please. > > Russell > > > > > The HARRIS family > Thomas George Harris > A Glenpatrick Miner > Also...Colli ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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