W E L C O M E T O T H E H O C K E N FRIENDS OF THE HOCKEN COLLECTIONS : BULLETIN NUMBER 8 : JULY 1994

Religions and their Records It is hardly surprising that the Hocken Library obtained everything that he could by way of should be such a valuable resource for those printed reports, pamphlets, sermons and other interested in the origins and development of miscellaneous papers. Finally there is on religious institutions in Otago-Southland. Dr microfilm the New Zealand Mission Papers of Hocken’s background was in the church. His the Church Missionary Society, 1809Ð1914, father, Joshua, was a Wesleyan minister and Arising from his Methodist background, Hocken himself was educated at one of two Hocken acquired some Wesleyan missionary schools set up by the Methodist Church to material, and this has been augmented over the educate sons of ministers. It might be said that, years by the addition of material relating to in spite of his years at Woodhouse Grove some of the early missionaries, Samuel Leigh, School near Bradford, Yorkshire, Hocken Walter Lawry, James Watkin (the first Christian retained a lively interest in for church life. missionary in southern New Zealand), John In he became fully involved in the Whiteley and William Woon. The Library also life of St Paul’s Cathedral where he was a Lay has on microfilm the Methodist Missionary Canon, having served on the Vestry, and being Society records as they concern Australia, New a member of the Chapter at the time of his Zealand and the South Pacific for the period death. His generosity to the wider church in 1814Ð1889. Finally there is the microfilm of Dunedin was shown in the dispositions made in the London Missionary Society records, the his will. The depth of Dr Hocken’s interest in first of the missionary societies to enter the church affairs was also illustrated by the signif- Pacific region. The records cover the period icant holdings of material in his own collec- 1797Ð1909. tions. It is not possible to describe here all that is to be found in the Hocken Collections: General Material researchers should check the catalogues carefully. From an age when religious controversy was front page news, Hocken Library has a wonder- Missionary period ful collection of printed material of a polemic or apologetic nature. When the opinions of Hocken acquired from the Church Missionary church leaders were publicly attacked, they Society in 1903 copies of Samuel Marsden’s could rely on friends to publish a journals with their reports on the New Zealand ‘vindication’: printed exchanges invariably missions from 1814Ð15 to 1837Ð38. Of equal followed. For those interested in the orotundi- importance are the journals of the mssion ties of Victorian sermonising there are many station staff in the Bay of Islands — John examples of this medium. Butler, George Clarke, Richard Davis, William There are, naturally, very considerable Hall, James Kemp, Thomas Kendall and John holdings of printed material relating to denom- King. These are the principal sources for the inational and parish history. These often can earliest years of Anglican missionary work. help researchers since a local history may well Other missionaries whose papers are held in the go back to original sources recorded in no Hocken are Charles Baker, T.S. Grace, James other place. It will also pay to explore the Hamlin and William Yate. There are also collected papers of such as G.C. Thompson significant holdings from Bishop Selwyn, and T.A. Pybus, which have much to do with Henry and William Williams, J.W. Stack, early Anglican and Methodist history. Octavius Hadfield, William Colenso, Robert Apart from the major holdings in Anglican Maunsell and many others. Hocken busily and Methodist archives, there are smaller holdings for Presbyterian material — mainly, are held at both Leith St and at Castle St and of course, because the major Presbyterian are widely representative of all the major archive is at Knox College. Roman Catholic denominations, with the exception of Methodist archival material is held in the Bishop’s House records which are held in the Connexional in Rattray St. There are also holdings of Archive at Christchurch. printed material for the Salvation Army, Baptist and Congregational churches, and Society of Detailed Archives Friends; as well as papers relating to the Unitarian Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Archival holdings held at Leith St are set out Latter Day Saints, and even from the earliest here in alphabetical order, noting also any days some referring to the Islamic and Baha’i relevant material held at Castle St: faiths. 1. Associated Churches of Christ Yearbooks, almanacs, periodicals This denomination first established itself in Nelson in 1844. A cause was established in A major secondary source for the historian are Dunedin in 1870Ð71 in Great King St, and the denominational almanacs and yearbooks, then at the Tabernacle in Great King St, and along with synod/assembly/conference reports this continued until 1929 when the city and minutes. The Hocken Library is well congregation moved to its present site in St endowed with such material going back to the Andrews St. earliest days of the establishment of the various There are substantial, though not complete, national and regional church organisations. holdings for all the OtagoÐSouthland parishes. These printed records are of particular rele- The material goes back as far as 1873 and vance to the local historian. There is, for includes roll books, baptismal and marriage example, a complete set of the earlier copies of registers, minutes and correspondence, and the Arminian Magazine, first published by John some local histories. Wesley in 1778 and carried on under other names (Wesleyan Magazine, Methodist 2. Baptist Magazine) into the later years of the 19th The first Baptist church was formed in Nelson century. in 1851. Initially the Dunedin Baptists Finally there are the religious newspapers, worshipped with other Free Church groups, but listed separately in the Hocken catalogue. by 1863 had established themselves at Hanover There are parish examples (e.g. Mornington Street. Presbyterian Church, Hanover St Baptist Two parishes, Caversham and , have Church); regional newspapers, such as the deposited archival material. It includes regis- Envoy of the Anglican Diocese of Dunedin; ters; minutes of the Deacons’ Court and other and the national publications of the major chyrch meetings relating to property, women’s denominations: groups and Christian education; general correspondence; some photographs. Anglican — Church & People, Anglican News Assemblies of God — New Zealand Evangel 3. Church of England Churches of Christ — New Zealand Christian There was an Anglican presence in Dunedin Baptist — New Zealand Baptist from the very beginning, but the first formal Methodist — Methodist Times, Outlook, New Citizen meeting of Anglicans took place in 1852 with Methodist/Presbyterian — Crosslink the arrival of the first resident clergyman, J. A. Nat. Council of Churches — Church and Community Fenton. The first purpose-built church as St Pentecostal — New Zealand Times Paul’s in the Octagon, erected in 1862–63. Presbyterian — N. Z. Presbyterian, Outlook The Hocken Library is the approved Roman Catholic — Tablet, Zealandia repository for the Anglican Diocese of Salvation Army — War Cry Dunedin, with the exception of some North Otago records. The following parishes have Registers deposited their archives with the Library:

Thanks to the interest of genealogists, Hocken All Saints, Dunedin (incl. ) has a substantial holding of transcriptions of All Saints, Gladstone, Invercargill baptismal, marriage and burial registers. These All Saints, Tapanui Dunstan meetings, and of the Women’s Association. Holy Trinity, Marriage and baptismal registers exist from the Holy Trinity, Winton earliest days for all these parishes and for MiltonÐTuapeka Lawrence as well. St Barnabas, Warrington The manuscripts of William Mugford Grant, St John’s, Invercargill minister at Port Chalmers 1882Ð91 and St John’s, Roslyn, Dunedin 1906Ð25, comprise clipping books and papers St John’s, Waikouaiti relating to the Port Chalmers church and to St Mark’s, Balclutha, Congregational Churches in New Zealand and St Mark’s, Green Island Australia in general. St Martin’s, North-east Valley St Matthew’s, Bluff (some Stewart Is) 5. Jewish St Matthew’s, Dunedin The Jewish community had built their first St Mary’s, Mornington wooden synagogue by 1863, replaced by a St Mary’s, Riverton more substantial building in Moray Place in St Michael’s, Otago Peninsula 1864. St Paul’s Cathedral, Dunedin Hocken Archives have incomplete congre- St Peter’s, Caversham, Dunedin gational records going back to 1862, including Taieri (St Luke’s, Mosgiel & Outram) minutes, correspondence and other Wakatipu (Queenstown, Arrowtown) administrative material.

For all these parishes there are extensive 6. Lutheran holdings of minute books and correspondence One important archive is held at Leith St — a covering the work of the parish at all levels — photocopied record of the Norddeutsche vestries, other church committees and ad hoc Missions Gesellschaft relating to the Ruapuke groups. In 1969 the former missionary unions Island Station during the ministry of J.F.H. and ladies’ guilds combined to form the Wohlers, 1844Ð84. This material was used by Association of Anglican Women and their Sheila Natusch in her biography Brother records are in Hocken Archives. Wohlers. Another important source of information are the registers. Hocken Archives contain about 7. Methodist two-thirds of the total number of parish regis- Methodism began with the establishment of a ters of births, baptisms/confirmations, marriages mission station at Waikouaiti (now Karitane) and burials. Castle St has a major collection of under James Watkin in 1840. Some Methodists printed parish histories and such books as John were among the settlers in 1848 and the first Evans’ Southern See. Moreover there is a church built was at Port Chalmers in 1855, wealth of biographical material, supplemented followed by a Wesleyan place of worship in by such things as the clergy directories. Further Dunedin in 1862. New Zealand Methodism resources are provided through the provincial inherited the English divisions into Primitive and diocesan reports and minutes. The Methodists, Bible Christians and a coalition Dunedin Diocesan Archives are not yet held by named in this country the Free Methodist Hocken, though much of the AAW material is church. The reunion of these branches had there. been achieved in 1913. The Hocken Library is the official repository 4. Congregational for Methodist archives for the region south of While the Congregational cause was not organ- the Waitaki River. The archive is very complete, ised until 1862, the lay preaching of J.G.S. consisting of minute books, roll books, corre- Grant began a year or two earlier. The Moray spondence and miscellaneous papers of indi- Place Church, the earliest surviving church vidual congegations (societies), circuits (groups building in Dunedin, was built in 1864. of societies), district synods and other regional The principal sources are the complete and sub-regional bodies. At local level there records of the Moray Place church established are Leaders’ Meeting, Sunday School and in 1862. There are also records for the St Bible Class, men’s and women’s groups, and John’s Congregational Church, Ravensbourne, special interest groups, many of them matched and the Port Chalmers Congregational Church. at circuit level, overseen by the Quarterly They include the minutes of the various church Meeting. The following congregational records are in resident priest, Father Moreau, arrived in 1861 the archives, the approximate date of and the first St Joseph’s Church, built of brick, establishment given: was erected in 1862. Though the official repository for Roman Abbotsford 1891 Catholic Archives is the Bishop’s House, Balclutha 1870 Rattray St, the historian will be amply rewarded Bluff 1879 by searching the Hocken catalogues for the Broad Bay 1863 large and varied holdings of Catholic material. Cromwell 1891 Dundas St PM 1879 10. Salvation Army Dunedin Mission 1891 The Salvation Army began in New Zealand Dunedin (Trinity) 1862 with the arrival in Dunedin in 1883 of two Gore 1884 officers sent in response to a local request. Invercargill 1863 The archival records of the Army are Invercargill PM 1872 centralised in Wellington, but there is a fair Kew PM 1876 amount of printed material available in the Lawrence 1865 general Hocken collection. Milton 1863 Mornington 1876 11. Spiritualist Mosgiel 1885 A small initial deposit of this church’s Oamaru 1863 administrative material has been placed in Port Chalmers 1855 Hocken Archives. Queenstown 1863 Ravensbourne PM 1880 12. General Riverton 1890 Two significant deposits of ecumenical material Roslyn 1878 are held in the Archives. The first goes back to Roxburgh 1868 the establishment, in the closing years of the South (Cargill Rd) 1882 19th century, of the Council of Christian Tapanui 1880 Congregations/Churches of Dunedin. This Waikouaiti 1862 body was superseded by the National Council 1868 of Churches, Otago branch, and then by the Woodhaugh 1884 Dunedin Council of Churches. A substantial quantity of material correspondence and 8. Presbyterian circulars etc is available. Dunedin was a Free Church settlement and The second of these ecumenical holdings are Presbyterianism remains a dominant presence. the records of the Student Christian The original church was in place late in 1848, Movement, largely based on Otago University, succeeded by a temporary church in 1861, and but also incorporating the Dunedin Teachers the present First Church in 1873. Knox Church College group. These records go back to 1893 began in Great King St in 1860, the present and include minutes, correspondence etc. building dating from 1874. It might be noted that there are no deposits While Hewitson Library at Knox College is as yet for the network of Pentecostal pastorates, the official regional repository, there is an under the names of Apostolic, Word of Life immense amount of printed material relating to and New Life congregations. this denomination at the Hocken.

9. Roman Catholic Compiled for the Friends of the Hocken Until the early 1860s, Catholicism in Otago was Collections by Donald Phillipps. a missionary endeavour controlled first from Edited by George Griffiths Auckland, then from Wellington. The first Designed by Gary Blackman.