Parishes

Collection

Collection DescriptionThe Parish Collection includes many aspects of parish life:

Marriage registers, marriage certificate butts, licenses to marry, letters of dissolution and copies of certificates.

Parish Council records

Parish Newsletters

Records pertaining to the running of the Sunday School. Teachers' activities are also included.

Bible Class or Youth Group records

Women's Groups - Ladies Guilds, Benevolent Societies, Young Married Women, Craft Groups, etc. (In mid-1964 all women's groups combined under the umbrella of the APW.)

Men's Groups, Sport's Clubs, Harriers, Girls' Clubs and other short-lived groups

Literary Societies

Boys' and Girls' Brigade

Choir or Organ Committee

Parish Temperance Societies - Band of Hope, Women's Temperance Society.

Historical Activities, Papers, and Celebrations including minute books, planning schedules, guest lists, activities, and associated papers, anniversary orders of worship, financial material, historical souvenirs, description and narratives, and ephemera.

Plans for church buildings, interior and exterior extensions - both original and copied.

Publications that relate to parish activity - pulpit bible, devotional material, worship material, books awarded as prizes.

General parish ephemera, including invitations, programmes, tickets, advertising, menus, scrapbooks, communion tokens, communion ware, printing blocks, banners, paintings, table cloths.

Choir music and hymnbooks.

Items below are just some of the highlights from this collection - please use the search bar to locate more.

Collections

Auckland Presbytery

Bay of Plenty Presbytery

Wellington Presbytery

Christchurch Presbytery

Mataura Presbytery

Central Otago Presbytery

North Shore Presbytery

Westland-Buller Presbytery

North Otago Presbytery

Dunedin Presbytery

Clutha Presbytery

Southland Presbytery

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