Party: Regional Records - Thursday Island. Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Mission, Tully Street, Thursday Island, 4875
Summary
Records relate to the Roman Catholic Church ministry throughout the Torres Straits; Includes Hammond Island Mission records from May 1929. The Thursday Island parish was established in 1884.
Baptism Registers: October 1884-present.
Marriage Registers: March 1885-present.
Burial Registers: December 1884-1969, total of 15 vols.
Manuscript, 'History of the foundation of the Hammond Island Mission', by Fr McDermott, n.d., pp.4.
Typescript, 'Account of the arrival of the first Sisters on Thursday Island, January 1886', by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, pp. 3.
Typescript, Record of the first priests, brothers and the families who went to Hammond Island from Yule Island, pp. 6. also details of the evacuation of Hammond Island 1942, and the return of families after the war, etc. 1 folder.
Rare book, La Reverende Mere Marie-Louise Hartger Fondatrice, Des Filles de Notre-Dame Due Sacre-Coeur et Les Missions D'oceanie, Rome, 1913, illus., sketches, indexed, pp. 428, in French language.
Photographs: small collection of prints of Thursday Island Mission. Hammond Island, missionary work 1920s, foundation of mission 1929, 2 albums.