Party: Uniting Churches Regional Parish Records - Mackay. Uniting Church in Australia, 50 Gregory Street, Mackay, 4740
Summary
The Church was formerly Presbyterian and was founded in 1872. A large collection of records dating from 1867 is held; all listed below are Presbyterian records.
Baptism Registers, St Paul's, Mackay: August 1876-November 1879, 1 vol., September 1884-January 1911, 1 vol., June 1911-September 1920, 1 vol., September 1920-September 1927, 1 vol. Walkerston, December 1895-October 1898, 1 vol.
Marriage Registers, St Paul's: February 1874-April 1875, 1 vol., includes marriage services performed in private homes. May 1945-October 1947, 1 vol., November 1947-March 1950, 1 vol., April 1950-December 1952, 1 vol., December 1952-May 1955, 1 vol., May 1955-November 1957, 1 vol., December 1957-November 1960, 1 vol., December 1960-August 1963, 1 vol., September 1963-December 1968, 1 vol., December 1968-June 1970, 1 vol., June 1970-July 1971, 1 vol., July 1971-December 1972, 1 vol.
Additional Baptism Registers: 1867-879, 1 vol., 1898-1901, 1 vol., Pioneer Charge, 1883-1906, 1 vol., Pioneer Charge, 1906-1918, 1 vol.
Additional Marriage Registers: 1869-883, 1 vol. 1878-883, 1 vol. 1882-888, 1 vol. 1889-892, 1 vol. 1892-897, 1 vol. 1898-1904, 1 vol. 1898-1907, 1 vol.
Communion Roll, St Paul's: September 1883-September 1896, 1 vol., frail. January 1898-May 1911, 1 vol., May 1917-November 1924, 1 vol., February 1925-December 1929, 1 vol., March 1935-December 1940, 1 vol., March 1938-December 1943, 1 vol.
Register of attendances, St Paul's Fellowship Association: 1949-December 1957, 1 vol., February 1958-August 1964, 1 vol.
Register of fees. Fellowship Association: February 1949-September 1953, 1 vol.
Entrance Register, St Paul's Sunday School: November 1899-March 1901, 1 vol., frail.
Minutes of St Paul's Kirk Sessions and Congregational Meetings: January 1877-February 1912, 1 vol., February 1912-April 1941, 1 vol., April 1941-September 1957, 1 vol.
Minutes of Congregational Meetings: March 1914-February 1947, 1 vol.,
Minutes of Meetings, St Paul's Management Committee: February 1874-September 1896, 1 vol., September 1896-January 1907, 1 vol., February 1907-March 1922, 1 vol., March 1922-September 1934, 1 vol., November 1934-March 1951, 1 vol., March 1951-September 1968, 1 vol.
Minutes of Meetings, St Paul's Fellowship Association Committee: February 1949-June 1965, 1 vol.
Minutes of Meetings, St Paul's Fellowship Association: February 1949-October 1955, 1 vol., October 1955-August 1965, 1 vol.
Minutes of monthly meetings, St Paul's Women's Guild: August 1914-August 1926, 1 vol., September 1926-December 1934, 1 vol., March 1935-April 1941, 1 vol., May 1941-November 1949, 1 vol., November 1949-April 1954, 1 vol., May 1954-November 1962, 1 vol.
Minutes of Meetings, St Paul's Sunday School and Kindergarten Auxiliary: September 1960-November 1963, 1 vol.
Correspondence Files: from 1883. General Account Books: January 1918-December 1925, 1 vol.
Cash Book, Fellowship Association: February 1949-July 1954, 1 vol.
Cash Books: January 1943-August 1943, 1 vol., January 1952-February 1952, 1 vol., January 1956-December 1960, 1 vol., January 1961-March 1962, 1 vol.
Receipts from 1905. Miscellaneous business papers and brochures, several bundles.
Historical record books, containing historical details of St Paul's Presbyterian Church, register of ministers, memoirs, rough diary entries and notes, December 1882-November 1887, probably copied and written up ca.1947 and 1968. Newspaper extracts have been inserted, 2 vols.
Printed records include the following: St Paul's Church Record, renamed St Paul's Presbyterian News, from 1922, several bundles.
The Presbyterian, from January 1931, a joint publication of the Presbyterian Churches in Mackay, Pioneer, Proserpine and Sarina.
Hey, J.N. A Brief History of the Presbyterian Church's Mission Enterprise Among the Australian Aborigines, Sydney [1931], 2 copies held.
Presbyterian Church of Australia, Mackay Queensland, 1872-1922, History of Presbyterianism in Mackay, n.a., n. pub. details, pp. 24, 6 copies held.
An additional unsorted collection of Church records was stored in a leather suitcase with the main collection. These included miscellaneous correspondence, annual reports, architectural plans, and a register of voters of the municipality of Mackay, December 1897.
Photographs in the main collection date from 1899, there is also a gallery of portraits of ministers who have served the Church since 1874, these comprise 13 enlargements, displayed in the Church vestry.