Source:
James Cameron - Centenary history of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales online
Details:
The first Presbyterian congregation organised on the Hunter would appear to have been in West Maitland. The first Presbyterian minister settled in Maitland was the Rev. John H. Garven, M.A., of Glasgow, who arrived in the colony in 1834, and was inducted in Maitland early in 1835. He was afterwards settled in Shoalhaven, and ultimately removed to the Clarence River, where he died in 1881. But, previous to his arrival, Dr. Lang had paid visits to the Hunter River, and conducted divine service among the Presbyterians there.
First Name:
Rev. John Hill
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Assigned servant Ann Brown apprehended after absconding from service
First Name:
Rev. John Hill
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Committee member for petitioning the Governor regarding General Education
First Name:
Rev. John Hill
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Resigned from pastoral charge of congregation at Maitland after being found intoxicated on board the steamer Sophia Jane on 12 December
First Name:
Rev. John Hill
Details:
Wife gave birth to a son 17th April
First Name:
Rev. John Hill
Details:
Reward of 25 pounds or conditional pardon for apprehension of two men, names unknown who committed a brutal outrage on the person of Mrs. Garven on Sunday 25th April near Maitland
First Name:
Rev. John Hill
Place:
Coolangatta Shoalhaven
Details:
Wife gave birth to a son on 8th May
First Name:
Rev. John Hill
Details:
Death of James Muir Garven, eldest son of Rev. Garven. Died 15th February aged 18 at Reids Creek, Ovens
First Name:
Rev. John Hill
Place:
Coolangatta, Shoalhaven
Details:
Wife gave birth to a daughter 15th March
First Name:
Rev. John Hill
Details:
Identified the men who had ill used his wife as men employed by George Furber
First Name:
Rev. John Hill
Place:
Dartbrook Invermein
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Marriage of Ebenezer Hall Esq., of Dartbrook and Catherine daughter of the late George McGinnis of Wilberforce on 8th August. Minister Rev. John Hill Garven of the Scots Church Maitland
First Name:
Rev. John Hill
Place:
Coolangatta, Shoalhaven
Details:
Wife gave birth to a son on 24th December 1855
First Name:
Rev. John Hill
Place:
Coolangatta Shoalhaven
Details:
Wife gave birth to a daughter on 10th October 1857
First Name:
Rev. John Hill
Details:
Marriage of William Fisher of His Majesty's Customs, to Elizabeth eldest daughter of the late Thomas Wingate, Esq., Commander Royal Navy, Stirling, North Britain on 9th June 1836. Minister Rev. Garven
First Name:
Rev. John Hill
Details:
Minister of the Scots Church at Maitland. Performed Divine Service for the first time to a numerous and attentive congregation consisting chiefly of the assigned servants of several of the large estates in the neighbourhood of Castle Forbes
First Name:
Rev. John Hill
Source:
Centenary History of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales. List of Ministers who served in the NSW Presbyterian church before the Union.p 404
Details:
Arrived in 1834. Died at Clarence River in 1881
