Party: Lutheran Church - Archives and Research Centre
Summary
The Lutheran Church has maintained a number of Churches throughout the survey area, as well as missions to the Aboriginals. Bloomfield mission, sixty miles south of Cooktown and Hope Vale just to the north of that centre, were established in 1886, and Marie Yamba mission was founded in 1888, south from Proserpine. Records of the Lutheran Church in Australia are housed in the Archives and Research Centre in Adelaide, and relevant holdings are listed below. Some records are also held in regional parishes, and of these the Townsville parish holdings are listed herewith. The advice was that St Paul's Lutheran Church, Mackay also holds records dating from the 1860s, however, a coverage of this holding was not possible. North Queensland mission records were not covered, however, correspondence with the Mission Director at Hope Vale, suggested that their principal records would be housed in Adelaide. The following is a selective listing of the large collection held at the Archives and Research Centre. Given the significance and sometimes rarity of records in this collection, the listing includes details of some secondary as well as primary source holdings.
Personal Papers Pastor P.O. Theile papers. Pastor Theile was mission director of Hope Vale (via Cooktown) Mission, based in Brisbane during the inter-war period. He later became director of the Lutheran Mission in New Guinea, and the papers relate chiefly to his work in Queensland and New Guinea. The collection is incomplete; prior to it being lodged in the Adelaide Archives, some items were lost in a fire in Brisbane. Pastor Theile was the author of One Hundred Years of the Lutheran Church in Queensland, Brisbane, 1938.
Dr Max Lohe papers. Pastor Lohe who died in 1977, was immediate past President of the Lutheran Church in Australia.
Congregational Records. Cairns: The Parish Bulletin (Cairns, Atherton, Innisfail), 1970-1971.
Sunday Truth, 6 July 1976, 31 July 1977.
Miscellaneous newspapers and periodical extracts. Cannonvale: Article on the opening and dedication of the Lutheran Church Hall, Cannonvale, Lutheran Herald, 22 October 1960.
Charters Towers: Two letters, November, October 1888; photographs of the old Lutheran Church and manse; extracts from Church publications with reference to Charters Towers.
Emerald: Lutheran Gems (parish paper), nos. 1-7, 1971, nos. 1-7, 1972.
Hope Vale: The Hope Vale Hotline, volume IV, no. 2, 1974, volume V, no. 1, 1975.
Mackay: Lutheran Parish Messenger, 1927-1931.
The Mackay Lutheran, July 1947-December 1948, 1949-1950, 1955-1956, 1961-1965, intermittent, issues to 1971.
The Lutheran Lightbearer, volume IV, no. 10-12, May-July 1939.
Lutheran Herald, article extracts relating to Mackay, 3 August 1925, 21 June, 6 December 1926, 2 July 1928, 4 December 1939, 23 January 1960.
The Lutheran, extract, 22 May 1972 relating to the dedication of the new Mackay Church.
Extract, Mackay Daily Mercury, 20 November 1929.
Newspaper extract, 1939.
Brochure to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Mackay Church, 1961, copy.
Several photographs, 1925-1926, including view of Church interior.
Mount Isa: DOS Lutherische Wochenblatt, nos. 1-5, 1963-1964.
Parish newspaper edited by Reverend Tamke, December 1965-January 1966.
St Pauls anniversary booklet, 24 November 1970.
Service booklet for the opening and dedication of the Finnish Lutheran Church Hall, Manse and Sunday School rooms, n.d.
Rockhampton: Rockhampton Lutheran Messenger, 1964-1969, incomplete.
Calvary Pew Bulletin, 1972-1979, incomplete.
Report of Home Mission visit to Rockhampton, Gladstone and Gin Gin by K.J. Schmidt, 5 December 1964, pp.2, copy.
Ground and sketch plan of proposed new Church building.
Photograph of Church.
Townsville: Townsville Lutheran Tidings, 1961-1976, almost complete.
Report on dedication of new Lutheran Church centre, extract from Lutheran Herald, 12 March 1955.
Photograph collection.
Aboriginal Lutheran Mission (Cape Bedford Reserve): Official reports, 1873-1929, contained in various Lutheran Church periodicals.
Periodicals and Newsletters. Abound, Publication of the Lutheran Church of Australia, Queensland District, volume, I-III, 1969, 1971, incomplete.
The Australian Lutheran Official organ of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia, volume I-LIV, 1913-1966, Adelaide.
District Newsletter, Published by Lutheran Church of Australia, Queensland District, 1975-present.
The Lutheran, Organ of the Lutheran Church of Australia, volume I-XV, 1967-present, Adelaide.
Lutheran Herald, Official organ of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia, no. I-XLV, 1921-1966, Tanunda, South Australia.
Lutherischer Kirchenbote Fuer Australien Organ of the E.L.S.A., volume I-LX, 1873-1917, 1925-1940.
The Queensland Lutheran, Official organ of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia, Queensland District, volumes I-XXIV, 1943-1966.
The Queensland Messenger, Official organ of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Queensland, volumes I-XXXII, 1927-1958.
Queensland Herald u. Nord-Australische Zeitung, Volume XLV, nos. 47, 49, 50, volume XL VI, nos. 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 13, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 34, volume LI, no. 38, 1928-1930, 1935.
Daheim, Supplement of Queenslander Herald, volume LIII, nos. 3, 4, 10, 32, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 1936-1937.
Publications: Becker, Reverend Erwin, Beitraege zur Geschichte der Lutherischen Kirche in Queensland, Brisbane, 1898,pp.34.
Frank, Pastor J., Die Lutherische Kirche von Queensland vor dem Richterstuhl des Pastors E. Becker, F.B.U., published by authority of the Pastors' Conference and Church Council of the Lutheran Synod of Queensland, Brisbane, 1898, pp. 20.
Grope, Dr. L.B., From Despair to Hope. A brief survey of the Hope Vale Mission from its establishment to the present, 1977, illus., booklet, pp. 20.
Hebart, Th., The United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia - Its History, Activities and Characteristics, English version ed. By J.J. Stolz, Lutheran Book Depot, North Adelaide, 1938, maps, illus., pp. 335.
Meuhling, E. (ed.)., Fuehrer Durch Queensland, Brisbane, 1898, illus., pp. 256.
Rohde, Reverend R.T., A Visit to Boiling Springs, May 1951, pp. 12.
Rose, Gordon, The Heart of a Man, Yearbook of the L.C.A., Adelaide, 1978, map, illus., pp. 43, biography of missionary G.H. Schwarz.
Rosenfeldt, Reverend I.L., Hope Vale Mission and Bloomfield River Mission, n.d., illus., pp. 4, pamphlet.
Theile, P.O., One Hundred Years of the Lutheran Church in Queensland, Brisbane, 1938, maps, illus., pp. 335.
Hope Valley - an Appeal, Brisbane, 1938, pp. 4, pamphlet.
Travelogue - Describing a visit to the Hope Valley Mission, Queensland, Director F.O. Theile D.D., Tanunda, 1939, pp. 32.