Party: Uniting Church Archives - Brisbane. Uniting Church in Australia, Wesley House, 140-146 Ann Street, Brisbane
Summary
These Archives house Methodist Church material only. They include a comprehensive range of records relating to the Church's principal institutions in Brisbane and throughout the state. The collection includes:
Minutes of Australasian Methodist conferences, 1852-present, bound and single copies.
Agenda, general conference of Methodist Church of Australia, 1929, 1938, 1941, 3 vols.
Minutes of Annual Queensland Methodist Conference, 1893-1970s, complete, bound and single copies.
Minutes of annual Methodist conferences Australian states and New Zealand, ca.1920-1958.
Minutes of Methodist Missionary Society of Australia meetings: 1910-1911.
Report Queensland Methodist Home Mission Society, including financial statement, 1901-1930, 3 vols.
Reports of Methodist Church in Queensland, including details from each circuit, n.d.
Index of Methodist ministers serving in Australia and New Zealand, 1914, 1 vol.
Index of Methodist ministers serving in Australia, 1926, 1949, 2 vols.
Some correspondence files, birth, baptismal, marriage and death registers, obituary records, examination results and business records, records of clubs and societies and photographs are also held.
Periodical holdings include: Christian Advocate and Wesleyan Record, 1858, 1860, 1861.
Methodist Leader, 1906-1916.
Queensland Primitive Methodist, 1876-1888.
Queensland Christian Witness, 1889-1897.
Queensland Methodist Times, 1927-1975.
Church handbooks: The Constitution, Laws and Regulations of the Methodist Church of Australia, 1918, 1927.
Laws of the Methodist Church in Australia, 1938.
To date the collection has not been fully organized or indexed. Researchers should be aware also of the Methodist Church records held at the Uniting Church Archives, Toombul, see entry herein.