Party: Uniting Church Regional Parish Records - Bowen. Uniting Church of Australia, Gregory Street, Bowen, 4805
Summary
Formerly St James Presbyterian Church founded in 1864. The collection includes both Presbyterian and Methodist Church records, of Bowen.
PRESBYTERIAN REGISTERS: Baptism Registers: November 1888-June 1912, 1 vol., July 1912-December 1937, 1 vol., March 1938-July 1955, 1 vol., September 1955-March 1977, 1 vol.
Marriage Registers: August 1922-July 1936, 1 vol., includes entries for Mackay and Kingaroy. May 1932-February 1933, 1 vol., July 1936-June 1942, 1 vol., January 1938-June 1946, 1 vol., includes Gordonvale and Mareeba entries. April 1949-July 1959, 1 vol., September 1959-August 1963, 1 vol., June 1971-May 1977, 1 vol.
A commemorative publication: Presbyterian Church of Australia. St. James Presbyterian Church Bowen Charge 1864-1935. History of Presbyterianism in Bowen and District, Bowen, 1935, has been printed.
METHODIST RECORDS: Marriage Registers, Bowen: October 1948-June 1963, 1 vol., November 1963-March 1974, 1 vol. Collinsville: April 1960-June 1963, 1 vol.
Minutes of meetings, Bowen Methodist Church Help Society, February 1935-June 1939, 1 vol.
Minutes of meetings Bowen Methodist Church Leaders, May 1950-April 1962, 1 vol.
Minutes of Methodist Circuit, Bowen-Proserpine, Quarterly and Leaders meetings, July 1962-April 1973, 1 vol.
Printed records include: Lack, C., Centenary Souvenir, 1864-1964, Queensland Methodist Home Mission Society, illus., pp. 40, issued by the Home Mission Department, and contains a brief history of the Methodist Home Mission Society in Queensland.