Party: Anglican Church Archives - Sydney. Australian Board of Missions, 91 Bathurst Street, Sydney, 2000
Summary
An extensive collection of records held, including material relating to Anglican missions serving Aboriginal and Islander communities in north Queensland. Included are private papers of missionaries and Church leaders. This coverage accords with storage arrangements, i.e. in boxes, files, albums etc., except for the Gribble collection listed immediately below, which was on loan at the time of this survey. Summary details only of the Gribble collection are provided here.
GRIBBLE COLLECTION: PAPERS OF J.B. GRIBBLE, Diaries, 1891-1892, Yarrabah Mission.
PAPERS OF E.R.B. GRIBBLE, Diaries, 1892-1909, Yarrabah Mission. 1931-1952, Palm Island.
CORRESPONDENCE, 1892-1952, regarding YARRABAH AND PALM ISLAND.
TYPESCRIPTS AND HOLOGRAPHS OF PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL. NEWSPAPER EXTRACTS.
BOX 10, ABORIGINES
REGISTER OF BAPTISMS OF ABORIGINES, MITCHELL RIVER MISSION, April 1904-July 1961, 1 vol.
EXAMINATION PAPERS, CANDIDATES FOR THE PRIESTHOOD, ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE MOA ISLAND, 1925.
OUTLINE OF NATIONAL POLICY FOR ABORIGINES, BY PROFESSOR A.P. ELKIN, 12 May 1944, with covering letter to Rt. Reverend G.B. Cranswick of A.B.M. Policy Draft, Typescript, Carbon Copy, pp. 2-61, with appendices.
REPORT, PROPOSAL TO DEVELOP WATER SUPPLIES AT THE EDWARD RIVER MISSION, BY DR F.W. WHITEHOUSE, 1959, pp. 30 with 27 annotated photographs.
ANGLICAN MASS IN TORRES STRAIT LANGUAGE, 1958-1959; Translation by Dr Wilhelm Rechnitz, Manuscript, pp. 31; with covering letter.
PRAYER BOOK IN TORRES STRAIT LANGUAGE, 1968; Translation by Dr Wilhelm Rechnitz, Typescript, Foolscap, pp. 108.
PRINTED MATERIAL, ABORIGINES FRIENDS ASSOCIATION OF ADELAIDE, regarding Aboriginal matters, 1934-1941, 3 items.
NEWSPAPER EXTRACTS, ACTS OF PARLIAMENT AND RELATED CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING ABORIGINES, 1909-1943.
BOX 30, YARRABAH MISSION
IN-LETTERS, December 1947-March 1951, 1 bundle.
IN and OUT-LETTERS, 1933, includes extracts of minutes of executive meetings of A.B.M. relating to Yarrabah Mission, March 1931, 1 folder.
IN and OUT-LETTERS, 1931-1935, LOOSE. MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE, ca.1909-1911, Loose.
TREASURER'S REPORT, YARRABAH MISSION, 1947-1948.
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, INCLUDING 'YARRABAH. HISTORY OF W.W. McCULLOGH', with correspondence 1910-1912, 1929-1930. Also treasurer’s account of the Aborigines Committee formed under the auspices of the Australian Board of Missions, to August 1910, 1 folder.
BOX 31, BISHOP GILBERT WHITE
MANUSCRIPT, 'GILBERT WHITE-AUTOBIOGRAPHY', with photographs and newspaper extracts, 4 vols.
COLLECTION OF PAPERS ENTITLED 'MANUSCRIPT MEMOIRS'; ANOTHER TITLED 'DUPLICATES, PORTION MEMOIRS'.
NOTEBOOKS COVERING DUTIES AND TRAVEL IN ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA, and also covering world travel. Several volumes cover Gilbert White's period as Minister of the Ravenswood Parish in the 1880s, and later as Bishop of Carpentaria, based on Thursday Island. Includes sketches depicting travel and work throughout his service region, notably the Torres Strait Islands, Cape York Peninsula, Ravenswood, Charters Towers and Townsville. 12 vols.
NEWSPAPER CUTTING BOOK, entitled Parish Magazine etc. Includes extracts, HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, HERBERTON QUARTERLY MAGAZINE, No. I, April 1891-No. III, July 1891, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH RAVENSWOOD, QUARTERLY MAGAZINE, No. I, November 1891-No. IV, July 1892.
BOX 32. BISHOP GILBERT WHITE, LETTERS, PAPERS AND BIOGRAPHY
TYPESCRIPT, 'AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GILBERT WHITE', pp. 121.
CORRESPONDENCE, ca. 1898-1937, LARGE FILE, includes maps and sketches.
THE CARPENTARIAN, FOR THE DIOCESE OF CARPENTARIA, NORTH AUSTRALIA Vol. I, No. 4, 1 October 1901, Vol. II, No. 7, 1 July 1902, (Quarterly publication from Thursday Island). PHOTOGRAPHS, NEWSPAPER EXTRACTS, MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, LOOSE ITEMS.
BOX 80, DECEASED MISSIONARIES
PAPERS RELATING TO FORMER A.B.M. MISSIONARIES WHO SERVED IN NEW GUINEA, THE PACIFIC AND NORTH AUSTRALIA, Include correspondence files, telegrams, newspaper extracts, official papers.
THE Reverend E.L.B. GRIBBLE, 1956-1961.
THE Reverend CANON JAMES BENSON, ca.1936-1955.
THE VENERABLE S.R.M. GILL, 1908-1952.
MISS MARGARET DE BIRBA, 1947-1951.
THE Reverend DARYL CASSIDY, 1959-1962.
MISS M. RAWLINGS, 1948-1962.
THE VENERABLE A.J. THOMPSON, 1921-1958.
THE Reverend CANON A.P. JENNINGS, 1917-1955.
LORNA E. MORLEY, 1964-1966.
Reverend DOUGLAS BENJAMIN HOBSON, 1950-1952.
MISS LILIAN M. CASWELL, 1923-1956.
MR.J.W. CHAPMAN, 1914-1957.
MISS NELL FAGAN, 1932-1962.
THE Reverend DAVID HOEY, 1957.
THE Reverend KENNETH KEYTON, 1955-1964.
MISS BARBARA LANE, 1930-1956.
MR. HANS LINNEMAN, 1956.
THE Reverend W.E. MOREN, 1948-1961.
THE Reverend DENNIS J. TAYLOR, 1937-1951.
THE VENERABLE ALFRED E. TEALL AND MRS TEALL, 1934-1963.
MR HAROLD WEIBYE, 1955-1960.
NURSE WINIFRED MAUD WEST, July-September 1952.
BOX 91. NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS
NEWSPAPER EXTRACTS RELATING TO ALL ASPECTS OF A.B.M. WORK, FROM 1853, 3 vols, 10 folders.
CORRESPONDENCE, MISCELLANEOUS, 1926-1927, 2 bundles.
BOX 901. SMALL PHOTOGRAPHS.
BOX 902, 903, 904. OLD PHOTOGRAPHS, PRE 1968.
PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTIONS COVER A.B.M. INVOLVEMENT IN AFRICA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, THE PACIFIC AND WEST INDIES. SECTIONS INCLUDE CARPENTARIA, MELANESIA, POLYNESIA, AUSTRALIA AND NORTH QUEENSLAND. SUB-SECTIONS OF THE LATTER: EDWARD, LOCKHART AND MITCHELL RIVER MISSIONS, PALM ISLAND AND YARRABAH MISSION. Also contains portraits of Church Leaders, Missionaries and General Staff.
ADDITIONAL SECTIONS: MAPS AND ART WORKS, THE LATTER HAS PHOTOGRAPHS OF ARTIFACTS.
ADDITIONAL RECORDS, NOT BOXED
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MINUTES A.B.M., from 1886.
ERNEST GRIBBLE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, entitled; Views of Missionary Work Among Australian Aborigines, from ca.1892. Includes several volumes relating particularly to Yarrabah.
WALL FILES. A.B.M. CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPER FILES, from 1945. THESE INCLUDE:
1-3 ABORIGINES, GENERAL 1967-1976.
11 QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT MISSIONS, 1958.
15, 16 YARRABAH MISSION, 1949-1960.
17 YARRABAH COMMITTEE MINUTES, 1950-1960.
MISSIONARY CORRESPONDENCE FILES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL, including A.B.M. General Administration Records, Budget, Financial and Trust Fund Material, A.B.M. Auxiliary Organization Records, Minutes of Meetings of A.B.M. Central and Regional Administrative Bodies.