Party: Townsville District Baptist Church Records
Summary
Items: 45 items. Shelf Location: -
Register, Townsville Baptist Church, 1884-1914, includes constitution and rules of the Church, Baptist Association rules and constitution, membership roll 1888-1924, baptismal register 1913-1914, marriage register n.d., burial register 1913-1914, Church statistics 1889-1914, (missing 1903-1912 when Church membership lapsed), one volume.
Typescript, constitution, Townsville Central Baptist Church, n.d.
Visitors' book, November 1950-1962, one volume.
Minutes of Church meetings, January 1888-December 1900, one volume, January 1901-June 1905, one volume, April 1912-April 1917, one volume, including Basis of Church membership, members roll and addresses, November 1925-August 1940, one volume, March 1955-April 1960, one volume, May 1960-March 1965, one volume, April 1965-July 1971, one volume.
Minutes of ordinary monthly business meetings, April 1917-November 1925, one volume.
Minutes of Deacon's meetings, May 1898-December 1903, one volume, October 1948-February 1955, one volume, April 1955-November 1959, one volume, November 1959-October 1962, one volume, November 1962-December 1968, one volume, February 1967-October 1972, one volume, November 1972-September 1976, one volume, includes
Typescript balance sheet, Townsville Central Baptist Church, August 1976.
Minutes of Townsville Baptist Women's League, January 1924-April 1934, including Constitution and rules, duties of officers, also Typescript of original permit issued under the Act of Union Regulation Act of 1930, dated 19 October 1932, one volume.
Minutes of meetings Stuart Baptist Ladies' Union, March 1957-May 1959, one volume, March 1957-November 1959, one volume.
Minute book, Gospel-Missions, 1957, 20 May-2 July 1957, one volume.
Minutes of Sunday School Teachers' meetings, Central Townsville Church, February 1961-October 1971, one volume, July 1971-June 1972, one volume.
Minutes of Youth Council meetings, September 1958-April 1961, one volume.
Minutes of Building Committee, May 1955-June 1957, also
Minutes of Special Building Committee meeting 25 June 1959, one volume.
Letterbook, Townsville Baptist Church, November 1898-June 1915, indexed, one volume.
General correspondence, 1952-1961, 1961-1967, 1962-1965, includes Miscellaneous file: correspondence 1956-1960, also Typescript of the manual of the Home Mission and Church Extension Committee.
Miscellaneous correspondence file 1952-1968, including Approval to commence building operations form, July 1952.
Correspondence of Area Council, 1965-1969.
Correspondence of Evangelical Committee, 1957-1958.
Correspondence and minutes of meetings, Townsville Baptist Repertory Society, also inserted: licence to perform a play, from Samuel French, Sydney, 12 May 1958; extracts from Townsville Daily Bulletin December 1958 regarding the theatrical performance of The Promised King; theatre programme The Promised King, Theatre Royal, December 10 to December 21, 1958.
Correspondence, also: constitution and rules of the Townsville Baptist; annual reports Assistant Ministers on Magnetic Island, n.d.; annual reports of various groups such as Boys' Brigade, Ladies' League, Christian Endeavour Group, Stuart Sunday School, Currajong A.A.S.S., Currajong Ladies' Fellowship, Aitkenvale Womens' Union, 1957-1965; annual reports Townsville Baptist Church, 1949-1965.
General correspondence of Townsville Baptist Church, 1947-1950.
Annual reports, Central Baptist Church, 1963-1964, 1968-1978, also miscellaneous correspondence.
Account book, 1919-1928, includes expenditure and receipts, one volume.
Ledger, 1912-1917, includes accounts of North Queensland Bank, Commonwealth Bank, Capital Account, Trustees Account, Allotment Hermit Park, Church Buildings Hermit Park, Cottage No.1 and 2, Building Fund Account, Stuart Street Ladies' League Furniture Account, General Fund Account, Balance Sheet Hermit Park Church period ending 20 September 1914, one volume.
Ledger, Stuart Baptist Sunday School, 1962-1965, one volume.
Commonwealth Savings Bank passbook, Stuart, Sunday School account, No.S3030, March 1955-September 1958, one volume.
Typescript, Baptist Association of Queensland, 250,000 Shilling Fund, n.d.
Townsville Baptist (monthly). Volume 1, January-December 1913, Volume 2, January-December, 1914, Volume 3, January-October, 1915.
The collection also included several photographs which are lodged in the Townsville Album, Delamothe Photograph Collection. DELAMOTHE.