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Item: 197841

Surname: Fidler

First Name: Rev W

Ship: -

Date: 2 November 1938

Place: Clarence River

Source: Daily Examiner, Grafton

Details: Methodist Church - changes in the pastorate were frequent under the itinerant system of station the ministers. Following Rev. W. Fidler came the Rev. W. S. Mayne in 1863; Rev. J. Fillingham in 1869; Rev. W. J. Bourn in 1869; Rev. A. Rutledge in 1872. Assisting the Rev. Rutledge were Revs. McDougal, R. Allen and J. W. Woolnough. Then at intervals of three years followed the Revs. W. Dowson, Stevenson, Middleton, Rabone, Swift, Williams, Orr, George, Allen, Holden, Harrison, Stewart, Gibson, Murray, Curwood, A. E. Walker, R.S. Brown, F. R. Swynny, W. Fullerton, D.A. Clarke and E. T. Walker

 

Item: 140058

Surname: Fidler

First Name: Rev. W

Ship: -

Date: 1864 8 November

Place: East Maitland

Source: MM

Details: Marriage of Richard Paine of Clarence river and Miss Caroline Shaw Thomson of Dunmore on 4th November 1864. Minister Rev. W. Fidler

 

Item: 197840

Surname: Fidler

First Name: Rev. W

Ship: -

Date: 2 November 1938

Place: Clarence River

Source: Daily Examiner

Details: The Wesleyan Church, since embodied in the Methodist Church, began its activities on the Clarence in the late 50s when the Rev. W. Fidler was appointed by conference to be the pioneer minister in the Clarence River circuit. Mr. Fidler arrived in Grafton in April 1860 and commenced holding regular services in the old School of Arts Hall. He was the son of a Wesleyan Methodist minister and was trained in the Wesleyan Methodist College in England

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