Hello Sandra I have been away over Easter and some messages have been deleted, but I saved yours to make a comment or two. According to a list of ministers published in the "A Century of Victorian Methodism" ed. C I Benson 1933, there was a Rev Charles Lane, born in Dorset 1823, entered the ministry in 1856, died 1910. The church would probably have been the present Wesley Uniting Church at Yarra St. on the north-west corner of Little Ryrie St. It was the central Wesleyan Methodist church for Geelong, although there was another early church at South Geelong (Moorabool St), but by 1869 the "South" would have been added to the name. After the various Methodist groups reunited in 1902, the name became the Yarra Street Methodist Church, and in about the 1950s it was renamed Wesley Church - becoming "Uniting" when the Methodists, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists came together in 1977. It now incorporates both Wesley Church and the Wesley Centre which provides counselling and other services. I wonder whether this Annie Maria ADCOCK might have been a widow? An Anne Maria CAMPION, b about 1829, is said to have married Henry ADCOCK in Jan 1854. He was a nurseryman, and one of the three founding trustees of what is now St Luke's Church, Highton, whose history some of us are writing at the moment. Henry died of diabetes in 1863, aged 36, leaving, so I am told, four children - Edward b 1855. Clement 1857, Annie Maria 1858, and Gertrude Helena 1859. The younger Annie Maria would of course be too young to marry in 1869. I'd be interested to learn of your connection with them. Best wishes Marion

Marion and Sandra, my wife and I called into the Wesleyan Church last Tuesday and met the Rev Paul Stephens. He told us that at the formation of the Uniting church all churches were required to forward completed registers to the Uniting Church Centre (Headquarters) in Elsternwick. The current marriage register started in the 1890s and is large enough to handle a couple of hundred years of marriages, earlier register presumably were sent to Elsternwick. In a room at the back of the church (Yarra Street end) is a small museum of items that were not sent to Elsternwick. It includes items from the other denominations churches that combined into the Uniting Church. Of great interest to us was a series of photo montages of all the ministers of the Geelong Wesleyan Church. We were able to take a digital photo of the Rev John Cope who married my wife's ggrandfather Carl Erickson from Uusikaarlepyy (Nykarleby), Finland and ggrandmother Wilhelmina Ellis from Mount Duneed (born in Elstead, Surrey) on 22 October 1870. In their pamphlet rack they have an 8 page church history handout. Using Google you can find a 390 page thesis (book) on the Wesleyan revival missions throughout Australia in the 1800s and you can see why many small communities like Mount Duneed built their own Wesleyan Churches which were visited a couple of times a month by a Minister from Geelong, John Sebire, Lilydale Marion Stainsby wrote: > Hello Sandra > > I have been away over Easter and some messages have been deleted, but > I saved yours to make a comment or two. > > According to a list of ministers published in the "A Century of > Victorian Methodism" ed. C I Benson 1933, there was a Rev Charles > Lane, born in Dorset 1823, entered the ministry in 1856, died 1910. > > The church would probably have been the present Wesley Uniting Church > at Yarra St. on the north-west corner of Little Ryrie St. It was the > central Wesleyan Methodist church for Geelong, although there was > another early church at South Geelong (Moorabool St), but by 1869 the > "South" would have been added to the name. After the various > Methodist groups reunited in 1902, the name became the Yarra Street > Methodist Church, and in about the 1950s it was renamed Wesley Church > - becoming "Uniting" when the Methodists, Presbyterians, and > Congregationalists came together in 1977. It now incorporates both > Wesley Church and the Wesley Centre which provides counselling and > other services. > > I wonder whether this Annie Maria ADCOCK might have been a widow? An > Anne Maria CAMPION, b about 1829, is said to have married Henry > ADCOCK in Jan 1854. He was a nurseryman, and one of the three > founding trustees of what is now St Luke's Church, Highton, whose > history some of us are writing at the moment. Henry died of diabetes > in 1863, aged 36, leaving, so I am told, four children - Edward b > 1855. Clement 1857, Annie Maria 1858, and Gertrude Helena 1859. The > younger Annie Maria would of course be too young to marry in 1869. > I'd be interested to learn of your connection with them. > > Best wishes > > Marion > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 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 > > >