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Item: 197851

Surname: Murray

First Name: Rev. James

Ship: -

Date: 12 June 1930

Place: Newcastle

Source: Freeman s Journal, Sydney

Details: HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE PARISH OF HAMILTON. (By the Bishop of Maitland.) Until 1873 the City of Newcastle with the district then forming the parish of Newcastle was under the administration of the Archbishop of Sydney. In that year the first bishop of the then newly established diocese of Maitland, Right Rev. James Murray, took possession of the Newcastle parish. One of the first steps taken by Bishop Murray in the development of this growing district was the establishment of the parochial districts of Hamilton and Burwood (now called Merewether), and the building of churches in both these places. Father Michael Harrington Ryan, the Administrator of St. Mary s, Newcastle, at this time, took a particular interest in Hamilton, and he gave great assistance to Bishop Murray in obtaining the site (purchased from the A. A. Company) and building the school-church

 

Item: 148474

Surname: Murray

First Name: Right Rev. James R.C.

Ship: -

Date: -

Place: -

Source: Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time

Details: Born in Ireland in 1828. In November 1865 he was consecrated Bishop of Maitland and in the following October landed in Australia

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