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Item: 142258

Surname: Morton

First Name: Rev. Robert

Ship: -

Date: 1867

Place: Grey Street , Clarence town

Source: Bailliers Official Postal Directory p. 85

Details: Baptist minister

 

Item: 202602

Surname: Morton

First Name: Rev. Robert

Ship: -

Date: 17 December 1870

Place: Newcastle

Source: Newcastle Chronicle

Details: Rescued Mr. Beveridge who had got out of his depth while swimming at the Long Beach, Newcastle

 

Item: 198017

Surname: Norton

First Name: Rev. James

Ship: -

Date: 11 September 1875

Place: Newcastle

Source: Newcastle Chronicle

Details: Marriage, on 12th August, at Christ Church Newcastle, by the Rev. James Norton, Charles Brown, to Amy, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Chambers, of Sydney

 

Item: 69918

Surname: Orton

First Name: Rev. Joseph

Ship: -

Date: -

Place: Newcastle

Source: Wesleyan Chapel

Details: Superintendent of South Sea Missions. Arrived in Newcastle with Lancelot Iredale on board steamer Sophia Jane

 

Item: 200278

Surname: Orton

First Name: Rev. Joseph

Ship: -

Date: -

Place: Newcastle

Source: The Newcastle and Hunter District Historical Society Title Monthly Journal, vol.9, part 8, May 1955. Churches of the Newcastle district. p. 114. Camden Theological Library

Details: The first record of Methodism in the Newcastle District is back in the days of the convict settlement, when the Rev. Samuel Leigh, the pioneer Wesleyan missionary, visited the district. Mr. Leigh arrived in Sydney in 1815 and some three years later he came to Newcastle, evidently on a mission to the convicts. The Rev. Joseph Orton was the next Wesleyan preacher to visit Newcastle, but most of his work was confined to the Maitland District which at that time (1835) was considerably larger and more important than Newcastle.

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