SOUTH AUSTRALIA

I Archives

South Australian Baptist Union Archives

Librarian, Branson Library

Burleigh College [Theological College of the SA Baptist Union]

35 King William Road

Box 432

Unley 5061

South Australia

Ph (08) 8357 1755

FAX (08) 8373 8026

Email librarian@sabaptist.asn.au

Locations: Archival material of the SA Baptist Union is located as follows:

(for particular holdings, see separate lists below)

(a) Burleigh College, South Australian Baptist Theological College,

35 King William Road

Box 432

Unley 5061

South Australia

Tel: (08) 8332 8233 Fax: (08) 8361 2613

librarian@sabu.com.au

Librarian is present: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm

(b) Mortlock Library of South Australiana (The State Library of South Australia),

North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000

Correspondence to: GPO Box 419, Adelaide SA 5001.

Tel: (08) 8207 7360

Contact Person: Neil Thomas

Opening Hours: Mon, Tues, Wed: 9.30am-8.00pm.; Thurs: 9.30am-8.00pm ; Fri: 9.30am- 8.00pm.; Sat, Sun. 12 noon-5.00pm

The State Library of South Australia is a reference library and material is not for loan.

The Bray Reference Library contains material about Baptists and the Baptist Church generally and in Australia. However the State Library’s particular strengths are in South Australian material.

Archival records, and materials published in South Australia or relating to South Australia are held in the Mortlock Library of South Australiana collections and the majority of these - both archival and published - are for use under supervision in the Mortlock Reading Room. A reader’s pass is required for access to this Reading Room. Passes are issued on presentation of identification which includes current address.

Access to the Library’s on-line catalogues is available by dial-up and, for Internet users, via the State Library’s web site: http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/

An enquiry handling fee of $A20.00 is charged for research enquiries from interstate and overseas. Up to 45 minutes would be spent on the enquiry.

(c) Individual Baptist Churches

Access: contact the Secretary of the relevant church (contact details available from local telephone directory or South Australia Baptist Union office)

(d) South Australian Baptist Union:

35 King William Road, Box 432, Unley 5061, South Australia

Contact Person: Janine Coad Tel: (08) 8332 8233

Material at the SA Baptist Union includes minutes of the various committees and councils of the SABU from 1863 to the present; it is uncatalogued.

Access: material may be inspected and read at Burleigh College or Mortlock Library by readers. Material cannot be borrowed.

For general assistance with Baptist records and history in South Australia, contact:

Burleigh College Library 35 King William Road, Unley, 5061 SA

Gordon Crabb, 43 Volare Avenue, Para Vista SA 5093 Tel: (08) 8264 8953

John Walker, 17 Brougham Place, Alberton SA 5014 Tel: (08) 847 2703

Holdings

(Note – some material formerly held at Burleigh College library has been transferred to the Mortlock Library – it is advisable to check before visiting either institution)

a) Burleigh College Library

Correspondence, reports, minutes

Commission on Economy and efficiency - minutes, letters 1920

First Annual Report of the SA Baptist Association Nov 1864

SA Baptist Assoc. Baptist Missionary Society Annual Report 1866-1867

SA Baptist Theological College Board meeting minutes 1959-1967

SA Baptist Union Centenary Forward Movement Minute book 1936-1940

SA Baptist Union Drama Group Minute book 1953-1954

SA Baptist Union Executive Committee Cash Book 1959-1960

SA Baptist Union Executive Committee Minute Book 1952-1958

SA Baptist Union Financial records and reports 1924-1927

SA Baptist Union General Committee attendance records 1951-1957

SA Baptist Union Reports to General Committee 1950-1952

SA Baptist Union Sunday School examination records 1946-1953

SA Baptist Union Youth Dept. Minute book 1928-1937

SA Baptist Union Primary Dept. Minute book 1921-1930

SA Burleigh College Board Correspondence 1979-1981

Financial records

Furreedpure Mission Cash book

Hillcrest Baptist Church 1982-1983

John G. Raws Memorial Scholarship Fund Regulations and minutes 1930

Magill Baptist Church 1975

Mylor Baptist Youth Centre records 1955 -

Senior Girls Missionary Union Annual reports, Minute books, Papers and Statistics 1930-1960

Handbooks, directories, year books

The Baptist Handbook 1868

Baptist Union of Australia Yearbooks/Official Handbooks 1929, 1931, 1938, 1964, 1981

Baptist Union of Australia Triennial Assembly 1956

SA Baptist Union Handbooks 1861-1991

Publications, pamphlets

The Alabama Baptist (U.S.) Dec 1973

Baptists in Pinnaroo Country, G.D. Crabb

The Baptist Women’s League SA 21 years record 1924-45

A Centenary of Baptist Witness in Sydney Bathurst St. Church 1836-1937

Christian Baptism: according to the Scriptures, by Rev. R. Woolcock. Adelaide 1884

Churinga (Australian Baptist Hist. Society) April 1966

David Badger: Baptist pioneer 1826-1890 , G.D. Crabb (1973)

David Badger: Preacher, Pioneer, Patriarch, Don Badger

Extending the Kingdom: SA Baptist Church extension 1863-1880, John Walker, 78p.

Gresham S. Mathews - a memorial publication

The Historic Christ: addresses to young men, Rev. Charles Bright, Norwood Baptist Church 1896?

Investing in tomorrow - Baptist Church of Victoria

Memoirs of George Swan Fowler - Christian merchant. John Price (Adelaide: Wigg & Son)

Morphett Vale Baptist Church (SA) Souvenir Jubilee Celebrations 1865-1913

Mount Barker Baptist Church (SA) Centenary Celebration 1873-1973

Norwood Baptist Church Jubilee Celebrations Dec 1917

Official pocket guide Baptist World Congress, London 1905

Our Indian Field: Australian Baptist Miss. Soc. 1915-1919

Petersham Baptist Church 75th Anniversary Souvenir brochure 1882-1957

A Quarter of a Century's Ministry in Alberton, Moonta, Semaphore and Mount Barker, John Price, 1890

Richmond Baptist Church: seventy five continuing years Oct 1969

SA Baptist Association, Address delivered at the Annual Session, Rev. E. F. Kingdon 1877

SA Baptist Union Annual Assembly programs 1899 -

SA Baptist Union Annual Meeting Programs 1896, 1929-1949

SA Baptist Union Constitution and By-laws 1904, 1949, 1969

SA Baptist Union Jubilee Souvenir 1913

Second Australasian Baptist Congress Melbourne 1911

Sermons and other discourses vol.1. Thos. Playford, (Adelaide: W.C. Rigby, n.d.)

A Short History of the Baptists, Henry C. Vedder (Baptist Tract and Book Society.)

Some fell on good ground: a history of the Baptist Church in New South Wales, Alan C. Prior

Southern Baptists: the Baptist Church in SA in the 19th Century, (Thesis) V. Andersons

Still Thy Church Extend (History of SABU) 1938-1963 A.C. Hill

The Alabama Baptist (U.S.) December 1973

The Baptist Women's League SA 21 years Record 1924-1945

The Church Porch (pamphlet) Vol III (May 1, 1858) - (Dec. 2, 1861)impf.

The Faith of our Fathers, F.J. Wilkin

Torrens Valley Baptist Church, G.D. Crabb

Papers

Hawthorndene Baptist Church (SA) History, Maureen Neville

History of Christies Beach Baptist Church (SA) Joan Lawry

Letter from Rev. John Jones (1859) Welsh Baptist minister in South Australia (describes Baptist work at Burra, SA)

Journals

Anvil. A Baptist Quarterly Vol 1 No. 3,4; vol 2 no. 2,3 (1969-70)

Australian Baptist Vol.1 No.1 (Jan 7, 1913) - Vol 79 No.1 (Feb.1991) Bound

The Baptist Magazine 1809-1904 Bound

Baptist Mission (English) 6 vols (1800-1818) Title Change to: The Report of the Baptist Missionary Society (1819-1859)

The Baptist Record of SA Vol.1, No.1 (July 1923) - Vol.41, No.37 (Sept.1953) Bound and Index 1923 - 1951

Christus Supremus (Magazine of the Queensland Baptist College Students' Association. Vol.1 No.1 (Sept. 1963)

Our Home Field. the official organ of the SA Baptist Home Mission Dept. Vol.1 No.11 (April, 1921) - Vol. 3. No.12. (May 1923)

The Southern Baptist Vol.1 (1895) - Vol. 18 (1912) Bound

The Sunday School Advance: organ of the SA Baptist Union Inc. Sunday Schools Department. Vol.1 No.4 (July 1914) -Vol.2 No.20 (1915)

Truth and Progress - Index to 1868-1894 - compiled by Rev. G.D. Crabb

Truth and Progress (SA Monthly Magazine) first edited by John Price and Silas Mead 1868-1894 Bound

Theses

The Ethnic Church in Australia, Charles Eliott Wilcox (Baptist Theological College of Queensland, 1980)

A strategy for cross cultural ministry by the Baptist churches of Melbourne, Australia, Geoffrey H. Blackburn (School of Theology Fuller Theological Seminary, 1991)

The Australian Baptist Mission and its impact in Bengal 1864-1954, Gerald Benjamin Ball (Flinders University of SA, 1978)

The Baptists in South Australia, 1863-1914, John Simpson Walker (Flinders University of SA, 1990)

Photographs

SA Baptists (Missionaries - Pastors and families) (no dates)

SA Burleigh College Faculty and Student photo. (no dates)

Colour slides (personal) Burleigh College, Buildings, Staff, Students

Miscellaneous

Baptist Missionary Society Centenary Medal 1792-1892

Film Strip - Peake Baptist Church 1951

Folder of musicals: plays with a Baptist theme

Kenton Valley Document Seal

Lantern Slides SA Country Churches Peake, Sherlock (no date)

Lantern Slides (India/C.H. Spurgeon/Carey/J. Bunyan, ) (no date)

Original letter from C.H. Spurgeon To The Friends of the Tabernacle, dated 1883.

Original Sermon outline by C.H. Spurgeon (no date)

Printing Blocks (Miscellaneous) (no date)

The Library also holds a range of monographs and other material relating to Baptist life in South Australia and elsewhere including histories of the denomination and local churches, biographies, sermons, reports, general studies and a number of publications relating to Baptist missionary work.

b) Mortlock Library of South Australiana

Microfilm

Truth and Progress (1868-1894)

Journals

The Baptist Record of South Australia (1923-1951) Bound

The Southern Baptist (1904-1912) Bound

Church Records

Archival church records are held as Society Record Groups (SRGs).

Those of the South Australian Baptist Union are held as SRG 465. Notes on the holdings of individual SA Baptist Churches are available at the Mortlock Reference Desk. Some restrictions apply. Written permission is required for access to, or copying from minute books less than 30 years old.

SRG 465 includes:

SRG 465/50. Marriage registers of Rev. G. Hogben (1881-1936)

SRG 465/51 Records of the South Australian Baptist Association and Union (1861-1973)

There is also an extensive collection from SA Baptist Churches including Minute Books of Church meetings, members rolls, cash books, ledgers, correspondence, and receipts from the following churches and associations.

Adelaide - Bentham Street

Adelaide - Flinders Street

Alberton

Angaston

Bowden

Canowie Belt

Cherryville

Christies Beach

Cowell/ Franklin Harbour

Crystal Brook

Finsbury Park (see Wooville North)

Franklin Harbour (see Cowell)

Grange

Hillcrest

Hilton

Hindmarsh

Kapunda

Laura

Lyndoch

Magill

Mile End

Morphett Vale

Mount Gambier

North Adelaide

North Croydon

Norwood

Peake

Peterhead

Pinnaroo

Port Pirie - Gertrude Street

Prospect

Richmond

St Peters

Saddleworth

Salt Creek (Zion Chapel) South Rhine, Barossa Valley

Seacliff

Southwark

Stockport

Telowie

Terowie

Torrens Vale/ Yankalilla

Ucolta

Underdale

Unley Park

Wayville

Westbourne Park

Woodville North (formerly Finsbury Park)

Wynflete

North Western Districts Association

Northern Districts Baptist Association

Port Adelaide District Association

Western Districts Baptist Association

Archival records of individuals are held as Private Record Groups (PRGs). Those relating to Baptists in South Australia are:

PRG 9 - David Henry Hollidge (educator)

PRG 34 - The Fowler Family. This very large archive includes the correspondence and other private papers of prominent Baptist businessmen, David Fowler, George Swan Fowler and James Richard Fowler. Also included is correspondence from Dr Laura Hope, daughter of George and independent medical missionary on the Indian sub-continent.

PRG 174 - George Fife Angas (businessman and philanthropist, sometimes called the 'father of South Australia'. Includes extensive correspondence)

PRG 325 - Thomas Neill and family (pioneer and prominent family in Baptist affairs)

PRG 450 - Holden family (business family which became famous for Holden cars. Includes diary of James Alexander Holden)

PRG 463 - Sir Thomas Playford (long serving premier of South Australia. Correspondence c. 1952-1971)

PRG 632 - Rev Henry Estcourt Hughes (minister in South Australia and Victoria. This archive consists of his personal reminiscences)

PRG 964 - Rev Allan Tinsley ( Sermons c.1953-1968)

PRG 1003 - Rev Alfred Frederick Roberts (minister. Sermons c. 1936-1986, 1991 and unpublished biography)

PRG 1080 - Rev. John Roberts-Thomson 1905-1994. dates ca.1934-1993.

The Somerville Oral History Collection has a limited number of cassettes of interviews indexed as relating to Baptists in South Australia.

The Mortlock Library of South Australiana has extensive pictorial collections which may contain photographs of particular churches or individuals.

Note: For more specific details concerning holdings for individual churches, contact Mortlock Library, Burleigh College Librarian, Gordon Crabb or John Walker.

Published books, and pamphlets.

Included in the South Australian published collections are books and pamphlets relating to Baptists in South Australia, including denominational histories, biographies and many local church histories and,

German people of Baptist persuasion in South Australia [1985] (Typewritten, handwritten and photocopied articles from Missionblatt, some translated by Glenn Roberts. Originally published between 1860 and 1873)

Results of mission work in India: an address delivered by Cecil Silas Mead at the half-yearly meetings of the South Australian Baptist Union, April 6th, 1900

A short catechism, in which is set forth the new Baptist creed concerning religion and the State by a church delegate. (Adelaide: W.K. Thomas, Ptrs.,1884)

Periodicals

The South Australian published collections have periodicals relating to Baptists in South Australia. These include several handbooks and reports of the SA Baptist Union (1908+), local church newsletters and

Australian Baptist (18 July 1951-23 September 1953)

Baptist News (SA Baptist Union) 1988-Dec. 1995.

The Baptist Record of South Australia (1923-1951) + index.

Far and near SA Baptist Union Vol.1, no.1-v.1, no.2 July-Oct 1908.

News SA Baptist Union April 1970-Sept. 1988.

Newsletter SA Baptist Union v.6, no.1-v.10, no.1 Jan. 1966- Feb. 1970.

Our Home Field. SA Baptist Home Mission Dept., Vol. 1, no. 1 (June 1920)-v. 3, no. 12 (May 1923)

South Australian Baptist News. SA Baptist Union, Feb. 1996-

South Australian Baptist Newsletter. SA Baptist Union, No. 1-v.5, no. 11 1961-Dec. 1965.

Southern Baptist v.10 no. 2(12 Jan 1904) - v.18 no. 53 (26 Dec 1912) Access restricted

The Sunday School Advance: organ of the SA Baptist Union Inc. Sunday School Department. v.1 no.1 (April 1914) -v.2 no. 20 (Nov/Dec 1915)

Truth and Progress v.1 no.1 (Jan 1868) -v.26 no.24 (13 Dec 1894) + Index. Incomplete.

Annual report of the SA Baptist Missionary Society, Furreedpore Mission : established 1864 18th-19th 1884-1885.

Furreedpore Mission. Annual reports Furreedpore Mission Incorporated. 1920/21-1923/24.

Furreedpore Mission. Reports The Furreedpore Missionary Society (Incorporated) [Adelaide : Furreedpore Mission] 1909/10-1919/20.

The Missionary echo : the monthly paper of the Furreedpore Mission, relating to the work in the Furreedpore and Pubna districts Vol.8, no.1; v.10, no.11-v.12,no.2; v.1,no.1-v.4,no.12 May 1904; Mar 1907 June 1908; Jan 1911-Dec 1914.

II Historical Society

Baptist Historical Society of South Australia

President: Rev. John Walker, 17 Brougham Place, Alberton SA 5014

Tel: (08) 8447 2703 (home)

Secretary: 43 Volare Ave., Para Vista, SA 5093

III General

Standard Publications

Extending the Kingdom: SA Baptist Church extension 1863-1880, John Walker

Our First Hundred Years: The Baptist Church of South Australia, H. Escourt Hughes (Adelaide: SA Baptist Union, 1937)

The Baptists in South Australia, 1863-1914: Walker, John Simpson Unpublished thesis, Flinders University of SA., 1990.

Southern Baptists: the Baptist Church in SA in the 19th Century (Thesis) V. Andersons

Still Thy Church Extend (History of SABU) 1938-1963 A.C. Hill

Paradise of Dissent: South Australia 1829-1857, Douglas Pike (Melbourne: MUP, 1957)