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St John's Church (Trentham) (A103)
Content & arrangement
Archives TypeRecordsScope & contentThis record group contains archives from one of Upper Hutt's earliest churches, St. John's Anglican Church Trentham, at 561 Fergusson Drive.
The collection documents the growth of the Upper Hutt Parochial District and the resulting separation from St. John's of first St. Hilda's Church (built 1913, officially separated in 1955) and then St. Mary's Church (built 1931, officially separated in 1969). There are some records to do with the early development of St. Mary's Church but early records on St. Hilda's are limited to the registers of service.
The collection is a good record of the activities of St. John's Church from the 1890s to the 1990s, although there are some gaps where Minutes have not been transferred, and financial and correspondence records are incomplete. In addition, computer files of some sort have been in use since c1976 (see wrapping paper, 103/14/10) but none of these have been transferred.
Types of record in the collection include volumes of minutes, financial records and notebooks, subject files and loose papers, plans and blueprints and a few publications. There is a fairly comprehensive collection of Church pamphlets re 'stewardship' from the period c1960. The only photographs from St. John's are of stained glass windows in the Church.
A few items date back to the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s.
The records are titled in various ways over time: St John's Church Committee 1894-1895, St John's Vestry 1895-1908 or 1909, Upper Hutt Parochial District c1910-1955, Parish of Trentham 1955-1957, then St. John's Trentham.
The collection included records from several related organisations: St. Mary's Church, St. Hilda's Church, the Mothers' Union, Ladies Guild, Order of St John's Trentham, Combined Mission Committee, Upper Hutt Redundancy Support Group, Cemetery Board ... Those records which had been used by the St. John's Church administration have been described as series within this inventory. Those records which had been kept separately from the St. John's records have been described in separate inventories. Please refer to the inventories for Mothers' Union, Parochial District of Upper Hutt (1938-1985), Record Group 105, and for St. John's Ladies Guild (1949-1993), Record Group 106.
Part of item 103/17/11, 1983-1989 'Correspondence', concerns the efforts of Rev. Tom Pearson to re-constitute a cemetery register, which indicates that the original has been lost.Organisation & ArrangementRecords from different sources had been brought together before transfer. Some papers e.g. Minutes had been kept together, while others had been clipped with a title sheet or scrap of paper at some time.Records have been described as part of their original series wherever this could be determined. When items such as Minutes have been found within other folders (e.g. Silverstream Church Minute Book 1919-1921 included in Silverstream Account file) they have also been described as series in their own right, in addition to being listed by their location within the folder.The order of the series is by fullness as an official record.Early parish records were generally kept in volumes whether Minutes, letterbooks, account notebooks etc. There are indications of some early subject files from the period following World War One; a subject folder system was definitely in use from the 1970s on. In addition, possibly in preparation for the Parish Jubilee in 1961 or the 125th celebrations in 1986, several folders or groupings of 'historic' material were brought together or re-arranged. These have been retained as a separate series. Therefore financial records for example may be located in both volume (e.g. Series 9-12) and in folder format (e.g. 103/19/3 Financial papers. Balance Sheets etc 1963-1972 or 103/25/10/4 Accounts (partial), c1908).Several items were loose in the boxes in which they had been delivered (e.g. 103/10/14 Maps and plans, bequests, legal transfers) and their order has been determined by the archivist. As these records have no perceptible subject arrangement or heading they have been listed in more detail; however a full index is outside the processing time available at present.Records from other organisations which were transferred at the same time as the St. John's archives but had never been used by St. John's administration have been described separately. Please refer to the inventories for the Mothers' Union, Parochial District of Upper Hutt (1938-1985), Record Group 105, and for St. John's Ladies Guild (1949-1993), Record Group 106.
The collection documents the growth of the Upper Hutt Parochial District and the resulting separation from St. John's of first St. Hilda's Church (built 1913, officially separated in 1955) and then St. Mary's Church (built 1931, officially separated in 1969). There are some records to do with the early development of St. Mary's Church but early records on St. Hilda's are limited to the registers of service.
The collection is a good record of the activities of St. John's Church from the 1890s to the 1990s, although there are some gaps where Minutes have not been transferred, and financial and correspondence records are incomplete. In addition, computer files of some sort have been in use since c1976 (see wrapping paper, 103/14/10) but none of these have been transferred.
Types of record in the collection include volumes of minutes, financial records and notebooks, subject files and loose papers, plans and blueprints and a few publications. There is a fairly comprehensive collection of Church pamphlets re 'stewardship' from the period c1960. The only photographs from St. John's are of stained glass windows in the Church.
A few items date back to the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s.
The records are titled in various ways over time: St John's Church Committee 1894-1895, St John's Vestry 1895-1908 or 1909, Upper Hutt Parochial District c1910-1955, Parish of Trentham 1955-1957, then St. John's Trentham.
The collection included records from several related organisations: St. Mary's Church, St. Hilda's Church, the Mothers' Union, Ladies Guild, Order of St John's Trentham, Combined Mission Committee, Upper Hutt Redundancy Support Group, Cemetery Board ... Those records which had been used by the St. John's Church administration have been described as series within this inventory. Those records which had been kept separately from the St. John's records have been described in separate inventories. Please refer to the inventories for Mothers' Union, Parochial District of Upper Hutt (1938-1985), Record Group 105, and for St. John's Ladies Guild (1949-1993), Record Group 106.
Part of item 103/17/11, 1983-1989 'Correspondence', concerns the efforts of Rev. Tom Pearson to re-constitute a cemetery register, which indicates that the original has been lost.Organisation & ArrangementRecords from different sources had been brought together before transfer. Some papers e.g. Minutes had been kept together, while others had been clipped with a title sheet or scrap of paper at some time.Records have been described as part of their original series wherever this could be determined. When items such as Minutes have been found within other folders (e.g. Silverstream Church Minute Book 1919-1921 included in Silverstream Account file) they have also been described as series in their own right, in addition to being listed by their location within the folder.The order of the series is by fullness as an official record.Early parish records were generally kept in volumes whether Minutes, letterbooks, account notebooks etc. There are indications of some early subject files from the period following World War One; a subject folder system was definitely in use from the 1970s on. In addition, possibly in preparation for the Parish Jubilee in 1961 or the 125th celebrations in 1986, several folders or groupings of 'historic' material were brought together or re-arranged. These have been retained as a separate series. Therefore financial records for example may be located in both volume (e.g. Series 9-12) and in folder format (e.g. 103/19/3 Financial papers. Balance Sheets etc 1963-1972 or 103/25/10/4 Accounts (partial), c1908).Several items were loose in the boxes in which they had been delivered (e.g. 103/10/14 Maps and plans, bequests, legal transfers) and their order has been determined by the archivist. As these records have no perceptible subject arrangement or heading they have been listed in more detail; however a full index is outside the processing time available at present.Records from other organisations which were transferred at the same time as the St. John's archives but had never been used by St. John's administration have been described separately. Please refer to the inventories for the Mothers' Union, Parochial District of Upper Hutt (1938-1985), Record Group 105, and for St. John's Ladies Guild (1949-1993), Record Group 106.
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HistoryImportant dates:
Richard Barton arrives 1847
Services in Barton's Store, Fortune Lane, by Bishop Abraham 1840s
Ngati Tama chapel built (New Zealand Company grant) 1853/4
First Synod held in Wellington - chapel offered in Whirinaki by Te Harawira 1859 - first service in chapel 27 December 1861
Weekly services held 1861 by Edward Herring
First baptism 30 March 1862
Land sold to Diocese for 21 pounds 1863
St John's Church in Trentham consecrated 17 December 1865
Chancel and sanctuary added to St John's Church 1884
Vicar travels to Wallaceville, Mungaroa, Kaitoke and Pauatahanui, conducts services at Criterion Hall, Upper Hutt
First permanent Vicarage added to St John's Church February 1894
St John's Church Committee extant 1894-1895
Phil Davis presents section to north on Main Road 1897
Pauatahanui district separated 1900
Parish finances re-organised, debt settled 1903
St Hilda's built on Main Road section 1910-1914
Font installed at St John's 1911
Jubilee Service and window at St John's March 1912
Rev. Barnett adds Army camp to his work, conditional on a car - Military Affairs Committee 1920
Silverstream property bought 1921
Lych-gate erected at St John's 1925
Featherston Hall half St Hilda's Sunday School, half St John's Sunday School, old St Hilda's Hall transported to Akatarawa for Sunday School 1927?
Porch added to St John's 1927
St Mary's Silverstream built 1931
Soup for school-children during the Depression 1930s
Trentham has full Parish status 1946
Formal partition of St Hilda's 28 February 1955
Parish of Trentham 1955-1957
Separation of St Mary's 1969
St Hilda's Church moved to Cruickshank Road 1979
Festival - 125 years of mission at St John's 1986
"LIST OF CLERGYMEN WHO HAVE HELD THE CURE OF THE PARISH OF TRENTHAM" - taken from board in southwest corner of church:
Rev. J. E. Herring Mar 1862-Sept 1863
Rev. A. Knell Nov 1863-Aug 1865
Rev. T. Abraham Aug 1865 - Apr 1868
Rev. D. Desbois May 1868 - Jan 1871
Rev. C. H. S. Nicholls Jan 1871 - Jan 1882
Rev. J. E. Blackburne Feb 1882 - July 1886
Rev. J. M. Devenish Oct 1887 - Nov 1888
Rev. P. L . Cameron Feb 1894 - Feb 1897
Rev. P. T. Fortune Mar 1898 - Oct 1900
Rev. C. J. Smith Jan 1903 - Aug 1908
Rev. J. H. Sykes Jan 1909 - June 1915
Rev. A. D. Stratford Aug 1915 - July 1919
Rev. N. S. Barnett Aug 1919 - Aug 1924
Rev. G. V. Kendrick Oct 1924 - Oct 1937
Rev. N. H. Winhall Dec 1937 - Apr 1947
Canon W. M. Smallfield July 1947 - Aug 1964
Ven. T. V. Pearson Nov 1964 - Mar 1978
Rev. A. R. Gardiner Apr 1978 - Nov 1981
Rev. P. A. Stuart Feb 1982 - July 1994
Rev. C. & A. Allan-Johns Mar 1995 -
Richard Barton arrives 1847
Services in Barton's Store, Fortune Lane, by Bishop Abraham 1840s
Ngati Tama chapel built (New Zealand Company grant) 1853/4
First Synod held in Wellington - chapel offered in Whirinaki by Te Harawira 1859 - first service in chapel 27 December 1861
Weekly services held 1861 by Edward Herring
First baptism 30 March 1862
Land sold to Diocese for 21 pounds 1863
St John's Church in Trentham consecrated 17 December 1865
Chancel and sanctuary added to St John's Church 1884
Vicar travels to Wallaceville, Mungaroa, Kaitoke and Pauatahanui, conducts services at Criterion Hall, Upper Hutt
First permanent Vicarage added to St John's Church February 1894
St John's Church Committee extant 1894-1895
Phil Davis presents section to north on Main Road 1897
Pauatahanui district separated 1900
Parish finances re-organised, debt settled 1903
St Hilda's built on Main Road section 1910-1914
Font installed at St John's 1911
Jubilee Service and window at St John's March 1912
Rev. Barnett adds Army camp to his work, conditional on a car - Military Affairs Committee 1920
Silverstream property bought 1921
Lych-gate erected at St John's 1925
Featherston Hall half St Hilda's Sunday School, half St John's Sunday School, old St Hilda's Hall transported to Akatarawa for Sunday School 1927?
Porch added to St John's 1927
St Mary's Silverstream built 1931
Soup for school-children during the Depression 1930s
Trentham has full Parish status 1946
Formal partition of St Hilda's 28 February 1955
Parish of Trentham 1955-1957
Separation of St Mary's 1969
St Hilda's Church moved to Cruickshank Road 1979
Festival - 125 years of mission at St John's 1986
"LIST OF CLERGYMEN WHO HAVE HELD THE CURE OF THE PARISH OF TRENTHAM" - taken from board in southwest corner of church:
Rev. J. E. Herring Mar 1862-Sept 1863
Rev. A. Knell Nov 1863-Aug 1865
Rev. T. Abraham Aug 1865 - Apr 1868
Rev. D. Desbois May 1868 - Jan 1871
Rev. C. H. S. Nicholls Jan 1871 - Jan 1882
Rev. J. E. Blackburne Feb 1882 - July 1886
Rev. J. M. Devenish Oct 1887 - Nov 1888
Rev. P. L . Cameron Feb 1894 - Feb 1897
Rev. P. T. Fortune Mar 1898 - Oct 1900
Rev. C. J. Smith Jan 1903 - Aug 1908
Rev. J. H. Sykes Jan 1909 - June 1915
Rev. A. D. Stratford Aug 1915 - July 1919
Rev. N. S. Barnett Aug 1919 - Aug 1924
Rev. G. V. Kendrick Oct 1924 - Oct 1937
Rev. N. H. Winhall Dec 1937 - Apr 1947
Canon W. M. Smallfield July 1947 - Aug 1964
Ven. T. V. Pearson Nov 1964 - Mar 1978
Rev. A. R. Gardiner Apr 1978 - Nov 1981
Rev. P. A. Stuart Feb 1982 - July 1994
Rev. C. & A. Allan-Johns Mar 1995 -
Series
Series103/1 Minute Books, St. John's Church Committee - signed copies 1894-1996 (incomplete)103/2 Outwards Letterbooks 1925-1932103/3 Cash Books 1920-1928, 1949-1950, 1962-1974103/4 Ledgers 1926-1928, 1952-1953, 1955-1958, 1962-1965103/5 Offertory books 1872-1894 (incomplete)103/6 Account notebooks 1919-1924103/7 Burial Ground receipt books 1949-1991103/8 Cemetery Records [c1884-1990]103/9 Birth, Death and Marriage certificates c1881-1914103/10 Registers of services103/11 Parish newsletters 1918, 1924-1935, 1941, 1964, 1966-1991103/12 Parish Roll [1980s]103/13 Subject folders 1 - originals, 1919-1993Arranged in chronological order.103/14 Subject folders II, c1865-1993? - created by Rev. Peter Stuart?Items brought together in a variety of folders - arranged in chronological order103/15 Order of the Good Shepherd of St. John record book103/16 Vestry papers 1968-1988103/17 Vestry Secretary's Papers 1985-1997103/18 K. Strong's file of records on extension to the Church, 1984-1986103/19 Miscellaneous This material was either left loose when transferred, or clearly unattached to any of the record series listed above. 103/22 Burial Registers, 103/23 Marriage Registers, 103/24 Register of baptisms
Items
Item ListingSERIES 103/1 MINUTES - SIGNED COPIES
103/1/1 Minutes, 15 January 1894-27 April 1895
Titled "St John's Church Committee"
Includes loose drafts, draft AGM, letter 17 November 1894 from I.M. Dalton to Mr Connell re hall.
103/1/2 Minutes, 11 July 1895-18 November 1913
Titled "St John's Church Committee", changes to "Upper Hutt Parochial District Vestry" by 1910.
Includes AGMs.
103/1/3 Minutes, 20 April 1915 -1 November 1920
Titled "Upper Hutt Vestry". Meetings held in 'St. Hilda's vestry', Mr Davis' room', St John's Sunday School room', The Vicarage'.
103/1/4 Minutes, 6 December 1920 - 24 July 1925
103/1/5 Minutes, 21 August 1925 - 11 April 1927
At back of volume, Churchwarden's Report 1925-1926
103/1/6 Minutes, 28 April 1927 - 7 August 1934
[MISSING September 1934 - March 1939]
103/1/7 Minutes, 20 April 1939 - 14 August 1951
Include from 12 June 1951 on matters re partition of the parish. Includes loose papers pinned in.
103/1/8 Minutes, 11 September 1951 - 9 May 1957
Titled Parish of Upper Hutt to 8 February 1955, thereafter titled Vestry of the Parish of Trentham.
Includes at front 1) draft report of sub-committee on use of land, 1952, and 2) special meeting of parishioners at the "south end".
103/1/9 Minutes, 13 June 1957 - 8 February 1961
Titled 1958 Vestry, Parish of Trentham, by 1960 titled St John's Parish, Trentham.
Note: 1959 AGM is missing.
103/1/10 Minutes, 13 April 1961 - 28 April 1965
Titled Parish of St John, Trentham.
Includes financial statements
103/1/11 Minutes, 20 May 1965 - 17 February 1969
Includes financial statements, reports of sub-committees, correspondence etc.
103/1/12 Minutes, 17 March 1969 - 1 May 1983 (AGM).
Includes markers with subject titles.
103/1/13 Minutes, 24 March 1983 - 18 June 1991
103/1/14 Minutes, 21 November 1995 - 17 September 1996
103/1/15 Minutes, July 1991 - March 1992
103/1/16 Minutes, March 1992 - May 1993
103/1/17 Minutes, June 1993 - July 1994
103/1/18 Minutes, 1994
103/1/19 Minutes, August 1994 - October 1995
103/1/20 Minutes, October 1996 - March 1998
103/1/21 Minutes, March 1996 - December 1999
103/1/22 Minutes, February 200 - September 2001
103/1/23 Minutes, October 2001 - August 2003
103/1/24 Minutes, September 2002 - February 2004 (Includes Agendas, minutes, financial statements, supporting docs and correspondence)
103/1/25 Minutes, 2005 (Includes Agendas, minutes, financial statements, supporting docs and correspondence)
103/1/26 Minutes, Jan 2005 - June 2006 (Includes Agendas, minutes, financial statements, supporting docs and correspondence)
103/1/27 Minutes, July 2006 - December 2006 (Includes Agendas, minutes, financial statements, supporting docs and correspondence)
103/1/28 Minutes, January 2007 - July 2007
SERIES 103/2 OUTWARDS LETTERBOOKS 1925-1932
103/2/1 Letterbook, 26 August 1925 - 14 June 1928
103/2/2 Letterbook, 1928-1932
SERIES 103/3 CASH BOOKS
103/3/1 1920-1921.
Churchwarden's Report for year to 31/3/1920 glued to p.1.
103/3/2 1921-1928
Includes loose in front cover: schedule of services, CU insurance policy 1928 and Royal Insurance on St. Hilda's piano.
103/3/3 1949-1955
103/3/4 1962-1965
Includes Receipts cash book, payments cash book, standing journal, ordinary journal.
103/3/5 1965-1968
103/3/6 1968-1975
SERIES 103/4 LEDGERS
103/4/1 1926-1928
103/4/2 1952-1953
103/4/3 1955-1958
103/4/4 1962-1965
SERIES 103/5 OFFERTORY BOOKS
103/5/1 Offertory Book 1 July 1872-1873, 1879-1881, bound in 1874. FRAGILE. Includes correspondence with Registrar-General re late returns.
103/5/2 Offertory Book, 1882-1894
103/5/3 Offertory Book, 1894-1897
103/5/4 Offertory Book, 1895-1918. Includes account information. FRAGILE.
SERIES 103/6 ACCOUNT NOTEBOOKS
103/6/1 1919
103/6/2 1919-1924
SERIES 103/7 BURIAL GROUND RECEIPT BOOKS
103/7/1 1949-1967
103/7/2 1968-1991
SERIES 103/8 CEMETERY RECORDS
103/8/1 Cemetery Board Register compiled in 1974 from all extant records, by James Bayliss and T. V. Pearson, Vicar.
Page 1 has a map with the Vicarage/Hall, Church/ Fergusson Drive and cemetery areas divided into A-F.
The register is divided similarly and gives a number (1-972, in rows), name, date of death, age. There are some later annotations "19" - it is not known what this means.
Name index at back of book.
Loose letter from K. M. Batchelor at back of book.
103/8/2 Index c1884-1990 [1982]
This book seems to be an index to the types of memorial in the cemetery, and/or possibly to readings at funerals e.g. there are headings for 'Naming of Jesus', 'Seraphim', 'Epiphany', 'Hilary' and also headings for 'Jerome', 'Mother Aubert', 'Guardian Angels', 'Saints and martyrs of Asia', 'Josephine Butler', 'John Wycliffe'.
A key at the front of this book has:
*=interment in churchyard
A=ashes, though not all entries have either notation.
103/8/3 Plot fee records. c10 records, on forms dated 1895, some annotated on reverse. To be indexed.
103/8/4 PDF document on disc, St John's Graveyard Toomstone Inscriptions, compiled by Molly Newman (acc 824, loc.Disc Box, Archivists Office )
SERIES 103/9 MARRIAGE AND DEATH CERTIFICATES
103/9/1 Marriage certificates, c1881-1897
103/9/2 Marriage certificates, c1882-1914
103/9/3 Marriage certificates, c1899-1912
103/9/4 Marriage certificates, c1882-1907
103/9/5 Marriage certificates, 1895 (blank)
103/9/6 Death certificates 1883-1898 (NB 1884 were kept separately).
103/9/7 Baptisms 1862-1871 (photocopies)
SERIES 103/10 REGISTERS OF SERVICES
103/10/1 St John's 6 March 1898 - 27 March 1910
103/10/2 St John's 3 April 1910 - 22 April 1930
103/10/3 St John's 23 March 1930 - 22 February 1942
103/10/4 St John's 1942 - 1967
103/10/5 St John's 1967 - 1975
103/10/6 Outlying districts 1906-1908
103/10/7 Outlying districts 1946-1949
103/10/8 St Hilda's 1910-1932
103/10/9 St Hilda's 1938-1942
103/10/10 St Mary's 1931-1959
SERIES 103/11 PARISH NEWSLETTERS
[Monthly parish paper issued 30 September 1918 is included in item 30: Subject folder "Historical importance or interest"]
Folder containing (loose) Parish leaflets/news sheets:
April-May 1941
October-November 1964
1975, Vol. 11 including some other issues 'Parish news, Trentham' Vol. 29 no. 1-2, Vol. 30 no. 1
'Trentham Anglican Review' Vol. 30 no. 4 (1977)
Newsletter. Trentham Anglican Church' Vol. 30 no. 3 (Oct-Dec)
'Parish News' Vol. 30 no.2 (April-August)
'Trentham Parish News' Vol. 30 no. 1 March-April 1976
'Weekly newsletter for St. John's Church' Vol. 12 no. 1-47 (last issue titled 'The Broadsheet')
1977-1978
1978 (incomplete)
Weekly news and parish newsletters 1979-1981, includes 'Trentham Parish News'
1981 (incomplete)
March 1982-November 1986
1982-1990
Weekly newsletters and monthly newsletters (began in July 1991), 1991
103/11/1 November 1924-December 1935
103/11/2 December 1938-January 1939
103/11/3 1966-1969
103/11/4 1970-1971
103/11/5 1972-1974
103/11/6 1975 Includes note: "When I was overseas in 1975 they failed to keep the Weekly Letters apart from one copy in the Parish Office file that Dorothy McAdam has" (Rev. T. Pearson)
103/11/7 1975-1977
103/11/8 1976
103/11/9 1977
103/11/10 1977-1978
103/11/11 1979-1981
103/11/12 1982-1983
103/11/13 1982-1986 (incomplete)
103/11/14 1984-1985
103/11/15 1986
103/11/16 1987
103/11/17 1988
103/11/18 1989
103/11/19 1990
103/11/20 1991
SERIES 103/12 PARISH ROLL [c1980s]
SERIES 103/13 SUBJECT FOLDERS I - ORIGINALS
103/13/1 Silverstream Account, church site and building fund
Includes Silverstream Church Minute Book 1919-1921, Silverstream Church Trust Account pass-book, correspondence and elevations, 1919-1924.
103/13/2 Upper Hutt Parochial Correspondence, 1919-1921
103/13/3 Parish of Upper Hutt Churchwardens' reports 1923-1925, 1927-1934, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946-1954, 1957.
103/13/4 Financial papers. Balance Sheets etc 1963-1972
103/13/5 Garden Party - correspondence, notices, rosters, totals etc., 1972-1975.
103/13/6 Accounts 1974
103/13/7 Offerings analysis, 1976-1977
103/13/8 Parish renewal 1976 - papers, includes envelope of Diocesan papers re Parish Planning 1976, 1975-1976
103/13/9 Old Vestry Material - correspondence especially re capital works to Vicarage (n.b. includes changeover from Rev. Pearson to Rev. Gardiner as Vicar), 1978-1979
103/13/10 St. John's Cemetery - correspondence re plots, note for future vicar, statement re noise complaint, 1982-1994
103/13/11 Playgroup - draft application gives background information, 1983?-1987
103/13/12 Church, building extension, gift information - confidential pledges, 1984-1985
103/13/13 Continuing Combined Committee - Minutes of Combined Mission Committee, 1985-1986
103/13/14 Festival Service St. John's - includes script for 'St. John's: This is your life : 125 years of mission to the Upper Valley'. Also includes 'Welcome to St. John's' and folder of research notes and papers, 1986
103/13/15 Mission, 1986
103/13/16 Spiritual Gifts - study guide for group leaders. Includes 12 completed questionnaires, named, restricted on grounds of privacy, 1986.
103/13/17 Upper Hutt Inter-Parish, 1990-1994.
103/13/18 Incorporation, outreach, friendship, one world - includes local statistics and analysis on Upper Hutt. Also includes minutes of Upper Hutt Redundancy Support Group, 1991?.
103/13/19 Saturday Night Service, 1993.
103/13/20 Baptism / Confirmation St John's - contains 1 page re link-up scheme, no date.
103/13/21 'Parish of Trentham early records' - includes Women's Dinner, Men's Dinner, Husbands and Wives evening, Dance, Workers Party, 1973-1978 approx.
SERIES 103/14 SUBJECT FOLDERS II - CREATED BY ? REV. PETER STUART
103/14/1 'Re burials and the cemetery at St. John's' - four pieces of correspondence, some relating to loss of a ledger, 1865-1876, 1924.
103/14/2 'Early receipts of some social and historical interest', 1879-1906, 1920, 1924.
47 items, numbered, needs indexing.
103/14/3 'Piano Fund' - includes plan for production of 'Red Riding Hood' 1893, 1892-1900.
103/14/4 Re attempts to raise funds for new organ, 1896. Include subcommittee Minutes.
103/14/5 'Historical importance or interest - early correspondence, historical information or other miscellaneous material. NB Original investigation of Parish clergymen and Parish boundaries.' (Note: reverse of folder titled 'Early correspondence - SORT'.)
Needs indexing.
Includes:
Bundle of papers titled "Donations/Loan and Parsonage Fund (includes correspondence re Barton loan). Also copies of correspondence with contractors", 1894-1896.
Minute Book St John's Church Committee Trentham 1894-July 1895 including Minutes of "Parishioners' meeting".
Unsigned petition re organ
Two issues of 'Upper Hutt Times' 17 December 1952 p.3 has history of St. John's
Accounts notes and papers 1881-1946
Cathedral stamp album and newspaper clippings
Envelope 'Canon Sykes Vicar Upper Hutt 1909-1915' containing fragile ephemera (spine of book?)
Envelope 'Parish of Trentham - Centenary - 1861-1961'
Monthly parish paper issue 30 September 1918 [placed with parish newsletters series]
103/14/6 Untitled paper-clipped notes - correspondence re Silverstream Church land, faculties and churchwardens. Declarations, offer by Mr Greenwood for 'Lot 2', includes plan, 1941-1942.
103/14/7 Concerning Church 'furniture' 51/52, 58 including windows - 'faculties re book rest St. John's, chalice St. Mary's, staves, includes envelope re later St. John's windows, 1942-1976
103/14/8 'Partition Trentham and Upper Hutt', 1951-1954.
103/14/9 'Pinehaven Church', 1951-1962.
103/14/10 'St. John's Church Trentham TVP's [Rev. Tom Pearson] notes relevant to Men's Dinners etc from 1965 on', 1965-1973.
103/14/11 'Concerning the sub-division of the parish into St. John's and St. Mary's', includes chronology by Vicar, also copy of first minutes of St. Mary's Finance Committee, 1967-1968.
103/14/12 'St. Mary's' - papers and correspondence re Hall, Sunday school, churchwardens, building inspection, organ. Includes copy of 'The Anglican' for ...Silverstream, Heretaunga, Pinehaven, Manor Park for May-June 1971, 1967-1971.
103/14/13 'Some information re original design of St. John's Church', 1970
103/14/14 'Churchyard matters', 1978?
103/14/15 'Re organ' - includes advertising and demo tape, 1993?
103/14/16 'Maps and plans, bequests, legal transfers'
Note - large items marked * have been separated to folders located 10d.
Includes:
*103/14/16/1 Plan of proposed Lych Gate St. John's for Rev. Sykes, by F. de Clere, 1904
*103/14/16/2 Silverstream Church Platform and Altar Rail, Clere & Clere, 1941
*103/14/16/3 Sketch plan of Anglican Church property - Upper Hutt, May 1958
*103/14/16/4 Proposed silver chalice for Silverstream Anglican Church, Nelson Isaac?, 1942
*103/14/16/5 Plans for new Vestry for Trentham, n.d.
*103/14/16/6 Plan (of drains?) 4 flats and boundary near St. John's
*103/14/16/7 Annotated street plan showing road works covering Cottle Street, John Street
*103/14/16/8 Proposed new choir stalls for St. John's Church Trentham, July 1951 signed WMM. Copy of blueprint.
*103/14/16/9 Sub-division of 4 lots, 1958 (original and copy)
103/14/16/10 Plan pedestrian access Ngata Grove to Cottle St - ?1958
Memorandum of Lease 1959 (unsigned)
103/14/16/11 Legal documents re establishment of Parish of Trentham Property Trust 1959 (signed) and Memorandum of Lease from Wellington Diocesan Board of Trustees to Parish of Trentham Property Trust, 1959
103/14/16/12 Legal documents re Will of Geoffrey Hull, d. 1954
103/14/16/13 Small manuscript plan showing Terminus Road, Pemysey Road and Proposed Street by Railway Line, with legal descriptions for four Part Lots on Terminus Road, n.d.
103/14/17 Miscellaneous loose cards (13) showing elevations of unknown church school, stamp 'Lawrence Swan' visible on some, n.d.
SERIES 103/15 ORDER OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF ST JOHN RECORD BOOK
SERIES 103/16 VESTRY PAPERS
103/16/1 Vestry Minutes, June 1968 - April 1973
Copies from Treasurer's papers.
103/16/2 Vestry Minutes, February 1973 - February 1974
103/16/3 Vestry papers including copies of Minutes, financial reports, papers, correspondence, possibly the Vicar's or a Vestry member's copies
February 1971 - February 1975
103/16/4 Vestry papers including copies of Minutes, financial reports, papers, correspondence, possibly the Vicar's or a Vestry member's copies
May 1972 - March 1975
103/16/5 Vestry papers including copies of Minutes, financial reports, papers, correspondence, possibly the Vicar's or a Vestry member's copies
July 1977 - February 1978
103/16/6 Vestry papers including copies of Minutes, financial reports, papers, correspondence, possibly the Vicar's or a Vestry member's copies
c1980 - 1988
103/16/7 Vestry papers, 1977
103/16/8 Vestry papers, 1992
103/16/9 Vestry papers, 1993 - 1994
103/16/10 Vestry papers, 1993
103/16/11 Vestry papers, April 2003 - August 2007
SERIES 103/17 VESTRY SECRETARY'S PAPERS
These papers consist chiefly of a chronological arrangement of papers addressed to the Secretary to the Vestry (in 1990 Rose Rainey, c1991-1997 Glenys Richardson), but also included papers for the Parish Administrator and an envelope containing miscellaneous correspondence which appears to have been passed on by the Vicar (covering 1983-1989). This latter includes a letter from Tom Pearson recalling his efforts to clarify information from a cemetery register.
103/17/1 1985-1987
103/17/2 1988
103/17/3 1989
103/17/4 1990
103/17/5 1991
103/17/6 1993 (incomplete) - 1994
103/17/7 1995
103/17/8 1996
103/17/9 1997 January - April
103/17/10 1991-1995 (Secretary to the Vestry also Parish Administrator). Includes folder "Correspondence", 1983-1989.
103/17/11 1983-1989 'Correspondence'
103/17/12 Minutes of "Vestry Meeting(s)" and relevant correspondence for the period
January 1992-July 1994.
(Folders include: Action lists (from previous meeting), Statistics of attendance at services, summary of number of ceremonies e.g. communions, marriages, funerals performed in the month, Financial reporting and authorisation of expenditure, Parish Plans etc.)
SERIES 103/18 K. STRONG'S FILE ON EXTENSION TO ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, 1985-1986
Mr Kelvin Strong was Chair of the Building Committee.
SERIES 103/19 Miscellaneous
This material was either left loose when transferred, or was clearly unattached to any of the record series listed above:
103/19/1 St John's Parish systems in 1994.
This manual was compiled by Peter Alan Stuart as an instruction manual for the new vicar. It provides a very useful overview of how the parish worked at that time and has occasional comments on e.g. relations with other churches in the area. It also provides a record of some other Parish records which have not been transferred to archives.
103/19/2 Diocesan administration handbook, c1992, marked 'Retired version'.
103/19/3 'St. John's Church Birthday Book for Rebuilding Fund'.
In Collins Diary 1969. Includes names and addresses. Possibly linked to stewardship records.
103/19/4 Women's Ministry team report - introduction of 'Careline', also Notes from Men's Fellowship meeting, no dates.
103/19/5 Publications and leaflets - St. John's Church
1. Parish of Trentham, 1957
2. Our first hundred years, 1861-1961...
3. Welcome to St. John's Trentham, 1977
4. The Friends of St. John's Trentham Trust Board, c1976
5. Launch of 'Ezee meals' scheme
103/19/6 Publications and leaflets - St. John's liturgies
Untitled, Christmas carols in yellow cover
Various service sheets
103/19/7 Publications and leaflets -Diocesan
1. Report of the Commission on Mission and Ministry as presented to Wellington Synod, 1976
2. Official Gazette, 1978
3. A Christian view of the Report of the Royal Commission on Contraception, Sterilisation and abortion in New Zealand, 1977
4. Notes for Vestrymen
5. Outline of the N.Z. Anglican Church Pension Fund
6. Some notes on altars and sanctuaries
7. Parish boundaries, 1973
8. Public and Social Affairs Committee, Money and wealth report, 1976
103/19/8 Publications and leaflets: Stewardship campaign
Christian giving survey recommendation from Rev. J. B. Talbot, Rotorua, 1962
'Before his face' The laity and the next stage in Christian stewardship by Canon H.N. Hood, 1960
Money in Christian life, 1959
Canvass Plan
What you can do for Christ and His Church
Pledge?...of course I will!
How to be visited by a member of your church
Questions and answers on pledging
No place for caution
Parish stewardship
Come on in!
The Parish budget
A Family affair
Excuses and reasons
How much shall I pledge to my church?
An important message from your parish church
Stewardship of the gospel
Someone courageous started something
What's all this madness?
"Ye are the light of the world"
A B C
The every member canvass
How much should I give?
Parish letter re Christian Giving Survey, St. Luke's Rotorua
Loaves and Fishes
Practical Parish finance
Helping...that's stewardship
Participating - that's stewardship
The basis of Christian stewardship by Rev. R. Kingsley Smith
The Anglican Church welcomes you
Parish stewardship manual. Book 1. Preparation (annotated by TVP)
The Parish of Tauranga Christian Stewardship programme
103/19/9 Publications and leaflets -Other
VSA information 1975
Parish of St. James, Lower Hutt, welcome card
The Mothers' Union Service Book (revised edition) 1948
Six sermons for Lent, by Bishop G.M. McKenzie
Memorial park layout cemetery advertising
Modern Cemetery planning
103/19/10 28 colour photographs of St. John's stained glass windows, no date
103/19/11 2 colour photographs of display titled 'Special Kingdom of Moonshine Gateway to Upper Hutt - for opening of River Road, 1987.
103/19/9 Vestry quiet day and service performance notes, c1976-1977?
103/19/10 Loose correspondence and papers:
103/19/10/1 Organ in Foxton offered, 13 March 1896
103/19/10/2 Subscription list for organ and proposal of 'some of the ladies' to canvass for funds, n.d.
103/19/10/3 Draft? letter to Miss Emily Haybittle re thanks for Sunday School, 1898
103/19/10/4 Accounts (partial), c1908
103/19/10/5 St. John's Ladies Guild Balance Sheet 1895
103/19/10/6 Letter, 30 March 1896, Thomas Fancourt to F. Connell re trip to Trentham
103/19/10/7 Bazaar Balance Sheet 1897
103/19/10/8 Invoice from Whitcher, Builder etc, for building Parsonage, 1894
103/19/10/9 Rates demand from Upper Hutt Town District, 1922-1923
103/19/10/10 Clippings, 1895, 1961-1962
103/19/10/11 Receipt from Society for Promoting Sunday School Work, Wellington, 1918
103/19/10/12 Invitation to Dedication of Lich-gate [sic], 1925
103/19/10/13 Return to Pension Board Enquiry, Rev. Charles Henry Finderley Nicholls, aged 61, 1875
103/19/10/14 Annual Reports and Balance Sheets, 1925 and 1927
103/19/11 Receipt, 18 September 1876, Diocesan Fund Wellington, used as marker.
103/19/12 Letter 11 December 1964, Parish of St. Mark to Tom Pearson re church furniture.
103/19/13 Copies of Parochial returns, 1965-1978.
103/19/14 Reverend Herring: Extracts of his life
103/19/15 Festival 86, 125th Anniversary of the Founding of the Parish.
Script for slide presentation,
Programme
Registration form
Notice of meeting of Committee.
103/19/16 Photographs of bibles donated to St John's Theological College.
103/19/17 Assorted
Service of Baptism 1984
AGM Agenda 22 February, 2009
Parish Emergency Plan 2006
Friends of St John's Trust Board docs 2006
Admin Circular re. Terrier of Land, 1991
103/20 PROPERTY
[Other related material at A103/13/9, A103/13/12, A103/14/13, A103/14/16 and A103/19/10]
103/20/1 Sale and purchase of vicarages at Moonshine Road and Raukawa Grove.
103/20/1/1 Correspondence July 1994 - April 1998.
Parish correspondence, legal advice, reports, real estate proposals and marketing, sale agreements.
103/20/1/2 Subdivision of Moonshine Road property.
103/21 CONFIRMATION REGISTERS
103/21/1 Confirmation Register 1938-1939 103/21/2 Confirmation Register 1983-1994
103/21/3 Confirmation Register 1894-1907, 1938-1947
103/22 BURIAL REGISTERS
103/22/1 1891-1908
103/22/2 1909-1943
103/22/3 1943-1974
103/22/4 1974-2014
103/23/1 Marriage Register 1881-1908
103/23/2/1 Marriage Register 1912-1917
103/23/2/2 Marriage Register 1917-1928
103/23/2/3 Marriage Register 1928-1939
103/23/2/4 Marriage Register 1863-1879
103/23/2/5 Marriage Register 1909-1912
103/23/2/6 Marriage Register 1939-1945
103/23/2/7 Marriage Register 1945-1950
103/23/2/8 Marriage Register 1950-1955
103/23/2/9 Marriage Register 1955-1988
103/23/2/10 Marriage Register; St Hilda's and St Johns 1952-1970
103/24 BAPTISM REGISTER
103/24/1 1862-1871 (fraglie, handle with care)
103/24/2 1871-1908
103/24/3 1909-1937
103/25 Publication "The parochial District of Upper Hutt, A record of Events in its history" by G.V. Kendrick. Pub 1935
103/25/1 Miscellaneous papers, notes transcribed from diary held in Turnbull collection, paper clippings and letters relating to St Johns parish church and a photo of the vicar G V Kendrick.
103/25/2 Church Wardens book and Register (Loc 13a)
103/1/1 Minutes, 15 January 1894-27 April 1895
Titled "St John's Church Committee"
Includes loose drafts, draft AGM, letter 17 November 1894 from I.M. Dalton to Mr Connell re hall.
103/1/2 Minutes, 11 July 1895-18 November 1913
Titled "St John's Church Committee", changes to "Upper Hutt Parochial District Vestry" by 1910.
Includes AGMs.
103/1/3 Minutes, 20 April 1915 -1 November 1920
Titled "Upper Hutt Vestry". Meetings held in 'St. Hilda's vestry', Mr Davis' room', St John's Sunday School room', The Vicarage'.
103/1/4 Minutes, 6 December 1920 - 24 July 1925
103/1/5 Minutes, 21 August 1925 - 11 April 1927
At back of volume, Churchwarden's Report 1925-1926
103/1/6 Minutes, 28 April 1927 - 7 August 1934
[MISSING September 1934 - March 1939]
103/1/7 Minutes, 20 April 1939 - 14 August 1951
Include from 12 June 1951 on matters re partition of the parish. Includes loose papers pinned in.
103/1/8 Minutes, 11 September 1951 - 9 May 1957
Titled Parish of Upper Hutt to 8 February 1955, thereafter titled Vestry of the Parish of Trentham.
Includes at front 1) draft report of sub-committee on use of land, 1952, and 2) special meeting of parishioners at the "south end".
103/1/9 Minutes, 13 June 1957 - 8 February 1961
Titled 1958 Vestry, Parish of Trentham, by 1960 titled St John's Parish, Trentham.
Note: 1959 AGM is missing.
103/1/10 Minutes, 13 April 1961 - 28 April 1965
Titled Parish of St John, Trentham.
Includes financial statements
103/1/11 Minutes, 20 May 1965 - 17 February 1969
Includes financial statements, reports of sub-committees, correspondence etc.
103/1/12 Minutes, 17 March 1969 - 1 May 1983 (AGM).
Includes markers with subject titles.
103/1/13 Minutes, 24 March 1983 - 18 June 1991
103/1/14 Minutes, 21 November 1995 - 17 September 1996
103/1/15 Minutes, July 1991 - March 1992
103/1/16 Minutes, March 1992 - May 1993
103/1/17 Minutes, June 1993 - July 1994
103/1/18 Minutes, 1994
103/1/19 Minutes, August 1994 - October 1995
103/1/20 Minutes, October 1996 - March 1998
103/1/21 Minutes, March 1996 - December 1999
103/1/22 Minutes, February 200 - September 2001
103/1/23 Minutes, October 2001 - August 2003
103/1/24 Minutes, September 2002 - February 2004 (Includes Agendas, minutes, financial statements, supporting docs and correspondence)
103/1/25 Minutes, 2005 (Includes Agendas, minutes, financial statements, supporting docs and correspondence)
103/1/26 Minutes, Jan 2005 - June 2006 (Includes Agendas, minutes, financial statements, supporting docs and correspondence)
103/1/27 Minutes, July 2006 - December 2006 (Includes Agendas, minutes, financial statements, supporting docs and correspondence)
103/1/28 Minutes, January 2007 - July 2007
SERIES 103/2 OUTWARDS LETTERBOOKS 1925-1932
103/2/1 Letterbook, 26 August 1925 - 14 June 1928
103/2/2 Letterbook, 1928-1932
SERIES 103/3 CASH BOOKS
103/3/1 1920-1921.
Churchwarden's Report for year to 31/3/1920 glued to p.1.
103/3/2 1921-1928
Includes loose in front cover: schedule of services, CU insurance policy 1928 and Royal Insurance on St. Hilda's piano.
103/3/3 1949-1955
103/3/4 1962-1965
Includes Receipts cash book, payments cash book, standing journal, ordinary journal.
103/3/5 1965-1968
103/3/6 1968-1975
SERIES 103/4 LEDGERS
103/4/1 1926-1928
103/4/2 1952-1953
103/4/3 1955-1958
103/4/4 1962-1965
SERIES 103/5 OFFERTORY BOOKS
103/5/1 Offertory Book 1 July 1872-1873, 1879-1881, bound in 1874. FRAGILE. Includes correspondence with Registrar-General re late returns.
103/5/2 Offertory Book, 1882-1894
103/5/3 Offertory Book, 1894-1897
103/5/4 Offertory Book, 1895-1918. Includes account information. FRAGILE.
SERIES 103/6 ACCOUNT NOTEBOOKS
103/6/1 1919
103/6/2 1919-1924
SERIES 103/7 BURIAL GROUND RECEIPT BOOKS
103/7/1 1949-1967
103/7/2 1968-1991
SERIES 103/8 CEMETERY RECORDS
103/8/1 Cemetery Board Register compiled in 1974 from all extant records, by James Bayliss and T. V. Pearson, Vicar.
Page 1 has a map with the Vicarage/Hall, Church/ Fergusson Drive and cemetery areas divided into A-F.
The register is divided similarly and gives a number (1-972, in rows), name, date of death, age. There are some later annotations "19" - it is not known what this means.
Name index at back of book.
Loose letter from K. M. Batchelor at back of book.
103/8/2 Index c1884-1990 [1982]
This book seems to be an index to the types of memorial in the cemetery, and/or possibly to readings at funerals e.g. there are headings for 'Naming of Jesus', 'Seraphim', 'Epiphany', 'Hilary' and also headings for 'Jerome', 'Mother Aubert', 'Guardian Angels', 'Saints and martyrs of Asia', 'Josephine Butler', 'John Wycliffe'.
A key at the front of this book has:
*=interment in churchyard
A=ashes, though not all entries have either notation.
103/8/3 Plot fee records. c10 records, on forms dated 1895, some annotated on reverse. To be indexed.
103/8/4 PDF document on disc, St John's Graveyard Toomstone Inscriptions, compiled by Molly Newman (acc 824, loc.Disc Box, Archivists Office )
SERIES 103/9 MARRIAGE AND DEATH CERTIFICATES
103/9/1 Marriage certificates, c1881-1897
103/9/2 Marriage certificates, c1882-1914
103/9/3 Marriage certificates, c1899-1912
103/9/4 Marriage certificates, c1882-1907
103/9/5 Marriage certificates, 1895 (blank)
103/9/6 Death certificates 1883-1898 (NB 1884 were kept separately).
103/9/7 Baptisms 1862-1871 (photocopies)
SERIES 103/10 REGISTERS OF SERVICES
103/10/1 St John's 6 March 1898 - 27 March 1910
103/10/2 St John's 3 April 1910 - 22 April 1930
103/10/3 St John's 23 March 1930 - 22 February 1942
103/10/4 St John's 1942 - 1967
103/10/5 St John's 1967 - 1975
103/10/6 Outlying districts 1906-1908
103/10/7 Outlying districts 1946-1949
103/10/8 St Hilda's 1910-1932
103/10/9 St Hilda's 1938-1942
103/10/10 St Mary's 1931-1959
SERIES 103/11 PARISH NEWSLETTERS
[Monthly parish paper issued 30 September 1918 is included in item 30: Subject folder "Historical importance or interest"]
Folder containing (loose) Parish leaflets/news sheets:
April-May 1941
October-November 1964
1975, Vol. 11 including some other issues 'Parish news, Trentham' Vol. 29 no. 1-2, Vol. 30 no. 1
'Trentham Anglican Review' Vol. 30 no. 4 (1977)
Newsletter. Trentham Anglican Church' Vol. 30 no. 3 (Oct-Dec)
'Parish News' Vol. 30 no.2 (April-August)
'Trentham Parish News' Vol. 30 no. 1 March-April 1976
'Weekly newsletter for St. John's Church' Vol. 12 no. 1-47 (last issue titled 'The Broadsheet')
1977-1978
1978 (incomplete)
Weekly news and parish newsletters 1979-1981, includes 'Trentham Parish News'
1981 (incomplete)
March 1982-November 1986
1982-1990
Weekly newsletters and monthly newsletters (began in July 1991), 1991
103/11/1 November 1924-December 1935
103/11/2 December 1938-January 1939
103/11/3 1966-1969
103/11/4 1970-1971
103/11/5 1972-1974
103/11/6 1975 Includes note: "When I was overseas in 1975 they failed to keep the Weekly Letters apart from one copy in the Parish Office file that Dorothy McAdam has" (Rev. T. Pearson)
103/11/7 1975-1977
103/11/8 1976
103/11/9 1977
103/11/10 1977-1978
103/11/11 1979-1981
103/11/12 1982-1983
103/11/13 1982-1986 (incomplete)
103/11/14 1984-1985
103/11/15 1986
103/11/16 1987
103/11/17 1988
103/11/18 1989
103/11/19 1990
103/11/20 1991
SERIES 103/12 PARISH ROLL [c1980s]
SERIES 103/13 SUBJECT FOLDERS I - ORIGINALS
103/13/1 Silverstream Account, church site and building fund
Includes Silverstream Church Minute Book 1919-1921, Silverstream Church Trust Account pass-book, correspondence and elevations, 1919-1924.
103/13/2 Upper Hutt Parochial Correspondence, 1919-1921
103/13/3 Parish of Upper Hutt Churchwardens' reports 1923-1925, 1927-1934, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946-1954, 1957.
103/13/4 Financial papers. Balance Sheets etc 1963-1972
103/13/5 Garden Party - correspondence, notices, rosters, totals etc., 1972-1975.
103/13/6 Accounts 1974
103/13/7 Offerings analysis, 1976-1977
103/13/8 Parish renewal 1976 - papers, includes envelope of Diocesan papers re Parish Planning 1976, 1975-1976
103/13/9 Old Vestry Material - correspondence especially re capital works to Vicarage (n.b. includes changeover from Rev. Pearson to Rev. Gardiner as Vicar), 1978-1979
103/13/10 St. John's Cemetery - correspondence re plots, note for future vicar, statement re noise complaint, 1982-1994
103/13/11 Playgroup - draft application gives background information, 1983?-1987
103/13/12 Church, building extension, gift information - confidential pledges, 1984-1985
103/13/13 Continuing Combined Committee - Minutes of Combined Mission Committee, 1985-1986
103/13/14 Festival Service St. John's - includes script for 'St. John's: This is your life : 125 years of mission to the Upper Valley'. Also includes 'Welcome to St. John's' and folder of research notes and papers, 1986
103/13/15 Mission, 1986
103/13/16 Spiritual Gifts - study guide for group leaders. Includes 12 completed questionnaires, named, restricted on grounds of privacy, 1986.
103/13/17 Upper Hutt Inter-Parish, 1990-1994.
103/13/18 Incorporation, outreach, friendship, one world - includes local statistics and analysis on Upper Hutt. Also includes minutes of Upper Hutt Redundancy Support Group, 1991?.
103/13/19 Saturday Night Service, 1993.
103/13/20 Baptism / Confirmation St John's - contains 1 page re link-up scheme, no date.
103/13/21 'Parish of Trentham early records' - includes Women's Dinner, Men's Dinner, Husbands and Wives evening, Dance, Workers Party, 1973-1978 approx.
SERIES 103/14 SUBJECT FOLDERS II - CREATED BY ? REV. PETER STUART
103/14/1 'Re burials and the cemetery at St. John's' - four pieces of correspondence, some relating to loss of a ledger, 1865-1876, 1924.
103/14/2 'Early receipts of some social and historical interest', 1879-1906, 1920, 1924.
47 items, numbered, needs indexing.
103/14/3 'Piano Fund' - includes plan for production of 'Red Riding Hood' 1893, 1892-1900.
103/14/4 Re attempts to raise funds for new organ, 1896. Include subcommittee Minutes.
103/14/5 'Historical importance or interest - early correspondence, historical information or other miscellaneous material. NB Original investigation of Parish clergymen and Parish boundaries.' (Note: reverse of folder titled 'Early correspondence - SORT'.)
Needs indexing.
Includes:
Bundle of papers titled "Donations/Loan and Parsonage Fund (includes correspondence re Barton loan). Also copies of correspondence with contractors", 1894-1896.
Minute Book St John's Church Committee Trentham 1894-July 1895 including Minutes of "Parishioners' meeting".
Unsigned petition re organ
Two issues of 'Upper Hutt Times' 17 December 1952 p.3 has history of St. John's
Accounts notes and papers 1881-1946
Cathedral stamp album and newspaper clippings
Envelope 'Canon Sykes Vicar Upper Hutt 1909-1915' containing fragile ephemera (spine of book?)
Envelope 'Parish of Trentham - Centenary - 1861-1961'
Monthly parish paper issue 30 September 1918 [placed with parish newsletters series]
103/14/6 Untitled paper-clipped notes - correspondence re Silverstream Church land, faculties and churchwardens. Declarations, offer by Mr Greenwood for 'Lot 2', includes plan, 1941-1942.
103/14/7 Concerning Church 'furniture' 51/52, 58 including windows - 'faculties re book rest St. John's, chalice St. Mary's, staves, includes envelope re later St. John's windows, 1942-1976
103/14/8 'Partition Trentham and Upper Hutt', 1951-1954.
103/14/9 'Pinehaven Church', 1951-1962.
103/14/10 'St. John's Church Trentham TVP's [Rev. Tom Pearson] notes relevant to Men's Dinners etc from 1965 on', 1965-1973.
103/14/11 'Concerning the sub-division of the parish into St. John's and St. Mary's', includes chronology by Vicar, also copy of first minutes of St. Mary's Finance Committee, 1967-1968.
103/14/12 'St. Mary's' - papers and correspondence re Hall, Sunday school, churchwardens, building inspection, organ. Includes copy of 'The Anglican' for ...Silverstream, Heretaunga, Pinehaven, Manor Park for May-June 1971, 1967-1971.
103/14/13 'Some information re original design of St. John's Church', 1970
103/14/14 'Churchyard matters', 1978?
103/14/15 'Re organ' - includes advertising and demo tape, 1993?
103/14/16 'Maps and plans, bequests, legal transfers'
Note - large items marked * have been separated to folders located 10d.
Includes:
*103/14/16/1 Plan of proposed Lych Gate St. John's for Rev. Sykes, by F. de Clere, 1904
*103/14/16/2 Silverstream Church Platform and Altar Rail, Clere & Clere, 1941
*103/14/16/3 Sketch plan of Anglican Church property - Upper Hutt, May 1958
*103/14/16/4 Proposed silver chalice for Silverstream Anglican Church, Nelson Isaac?, 1942
*103/14/16/5 Plans for new Vestry for Trentham, n.d.
*103/14/16/6 Plan (of drains?) 4 flats and boundary near St. John's
*103/14/16/7 Annotated street plan showing road works covering Cottle Street, John Street
*103/14/16/8 Proposed new choir stalls for St. John's Church Trentham, July 1951 signed WMM. Copy of blueprint.
*103/14/16/9 Sub-division of 4 lots, 1958 (original and copy)
103/14/16/10 Plan pedestrian access Ngata Grove to Cottle St - ?1958
Memorandum of Lease 1959 (unsigned)
103/14/16/11 Legal documents re establishment of Parish of Trentham Property Trust 1959 (signed) and Memorandum of Lease from Wellington Diocesan Board of Trustees to Parish of Trentham Property Trust, 1959
103/14/16/12 Legal documents re Will of Geoffrey Hull, d. 1954
103/14/16/13 Small manuscript plan showing Terminus Road, Pemysey Road and Proposed Street by Railway Line, with legal descriptions for four Part Lots on Terminus Road, n.d.
103/14/17 Miscellaneous loose cards (13) showing elevations of unknown church school, stamp 'Lawrence Swan' visible on some, n.d.
SERIES 103/15 ORDER OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF ST JOHN RECORD BOOK
SERIES 103/16 VESTRY PAPERS
103/16/1 Vestry Minutes, June 1968 - April 1973
Copies from Treasurer's papers.
103/16/2 Vestry Minutes, February 1973 - February 1974
103/16/3 Vestry papers including copies of Minutes, financial reports, papers, correspondence, possibly the Vicar's or a Vestry member's copies
February 1971 - February 1975
103/16/4 Vestry papers including copies of Minutes, financial reports, papers, correspondence, possibly the Vicar's or a Vestry member's copies
May 1972 - March 1975
103/16/5 Vestry papers including copies of Minutes, financial reports, papers, correspondence, possibly the Vicar's or a Vestry member's copies
July 1977 - February 1978
103/16/6 Vestry papers including copies of Minutes, financial reports, papers, correspondence, possibly the Vicar's or a Vestry member's copies
c1980 - 1988
103/16/7 Vestry papers, 1977
103/16/8 Vestry papers, 1992
103/16/9 Vestry papers, 1993 - 1994
103/16/10 Vestry papers, 1993
103/16/11 Vestry papers, April 2003 - August 2007
SERIES 103/17 VESTRY SECRETARY'S PAPERS
These papers consist chiefly of a chronological arrangement of papers addressed to the Secretary to the Vestry (in 1990 Rose Rainey, c1991-1997 Glenys Richardson), but also included papers for the Parish Administrator and an envelope containing miscellaneous correspondence which appears to have been passed on by the Vicar (covering 1983-1989). This latter includes a letter from Tom Pearson recalling his efforts to clarify information from a cemetery register.
103/17/1 1985-1987
103/17/2 1988
103/17/3 1989
103/17/4 1990
103/17/5 1991
103/17/6 1993 (incomplete) - 1994
103/17/7 1995
103/17/8 1996
103/17/9 1997 January - April
103/17/10 1991-1995 (Secretary to the Vestry also Parish Administrator). Includes folder "Correspondence", 1983-1989.
103/17/11 1983-1989 'Correspondence'
103/17/12 Minutes of "Vestry Meeting(s)" and relevant correspondence for the period
January 1992-July 1994.
(Folders include: Action lists (from previous meeting), Statistics of attendance at services, summary of number of ceremonies e.g. communions, marriages, funerals performed in the month, Financial reporting and authorisation of expenditure, Parish Plans etc.)
SERIES 103/18 K. STRONG'S FILE ON EXTENSION TO ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, 1985-1986
Mr Kelvin Strong was Chair of the Building Committee.
SERIES 103/19 Miscellaneous
This material was either left loose when transferred, or was clearly unattached to any of the record series listed above:
103/19/1 St John's Parish systems in 1994.
This manual was compiled by Peter Alan Stuart as an instruction manual for the new vicar. It provides a very useful overview of how the parish worked at that time and has occasional comments on e.g. relations with other churches in the area. It also provides a record of some other Parish records which have not been transferred to archives.
103/19/2 Diocesan administration handbook, c1992, marked 'Retired version'.
103/19/3 'St. John's Church Birthday Book for Rebuilding Fund'.
In Collins Diary 1969. Includes names and addresses. Possibly linked to stewardship records.
103/19/4 Women's Ministry team report - introduction of 'Careline', also Notes from Men's Fellowship meeting, no dates.
103/19/5 Publications and leaflets - St. John's Church
1. Parish of Trentham, 1957
2. Our first hundred years, 1861-1961...
3. Welcome to St. John's Trentham, 1977
4. The Friends of St. John's Trentham Trust Board, c1976
5. Launch of 'Ezee meals' scheme
103/19/6 Publications and leaflets - St. John's liturgies
Untitled, Christmas carols in yellow cover
Various service sheets
103/19/7 Publications and leaflets -Diocesan
1. Report of the Commission on Mission and Ministry as presented to Wellington Synod, 1976
2. Official Gazette, 1978
3. A Christian view of the Report of the Royal Commission on Contraception, Sterilisation and abortion in New Zealand, 1977
4. Notes for Vestrymen
5. Outline of the N.Z. Anglican Church Pension Fund
6. Some notes on altars and sanctuaries
7. Parish boundaries, 1973
8. Public and Social Affairs Committee, Money and wealth report, 1976
103/19/8 Publications and leaflets: Stewardship campaign
Christian giving survey recommendation from Rev. J. B. Talbot, Rotorua, 1962
'Before his face' The laity and the next stage in Christian stewardship by Canon H.N. Hood, 1960
Money in Christian life, 1959
Canvass Plan
What you can do for Christ and His Church
Pledge?...of course I will!
How to be visited by a member of your church
Questions and answers on pledging
No place for caution
Parish stewardship
Come on in!
The Parish budget
A Family affair
Excuses and reasons
How much shall I pledge to my church?
An important message from your parish church
Stewardship of the gospel
Someone courageous started something
What's all this madness?
"Ye are the light of the world"
A B C
The every member canvass
How much should I give?
Parish letter re Christian Giving Survey, St. Luke's Rotorua
Loaves and Fishes
Practical Parish finance
Helping...that's stewardship
Participating - that's stewardship
The basis of Christian stewardship by Rev. R. Kingsley Smith
The Anglican Church welcomes you
Parish stewardship manual. Book 1. Preparation (annotated by TVP)
The Parish of Tauranga Christian Stewardship programme
103/19/9 Publications and leaflets -Other
VSA information 1975
Parish of St. James, Lower Hutt, welcome card
The Mothers' Union Service Book (revised edition) 1948
Six sermons for Lent, by Bishop G.M. McKenzie
Memorial park layout cemetery advertising
Modern Cemetery planning
103/19/10 28 colour photographs of St. John's stained glass windows, no date
103/19/11 2 colour photographs of display titled 'Special Kingdom of Moonshine Gateway to Upper Hutt - for opening of River Road, 1987.
103/19/9 Vestry quiet day and service performance notes, c1976-1977?
103/19/10 Loose correspondence and papers:
103/19/10/1 Organ in Foxton offered, 13 March 1896
103/19/10/2 Subscription list for organ and proposal of 'some of the ladies' to canvass for funds, n.d.
103/19/10/3 Draft? letter to Miss Emily Haybittle re thanks for Sunday School, 1898
103/19/10/4 Accounts (partial), c1908
103/19/10/5 St. John's Ladies Guild Balance Sheet 1895
103/19/10/6 Letter, 30 March 1896, Thomas Fancourt to F. Connell re trip to Trentham
103/19/10/7 Bazaar Balance Sheet 1897
103/19/10/8 Invoice from Whitcher, Builder etc, for building Parsonage, 1894
103/19/10/9 Rates demand from Upper Hutt Town District, 1922-1923
103/19/10/10 Clippings, 1895, 1961-1962
103/19/10/11 Receipt from Society for Promoting Sunday School Work, Wellington, 1918
103/19/10/12 Invitation to Dedication of Lich-gate [sic], 1925
103/19/10/13 Return to Pension Board Enquiry, Rev. Charles Henry Finderley Nicholls, aged 61, 1875
103/19/10/14 Annual Reports and Balance Sheets, 1925 and 1927
103/19/11 Receipt, 18 September 1876, Diocesan Fund Wellington, used as marker.
103/19/12 Letter 11 December 1964, Parish of St. Mark to Tom Pearson re church furniture.
103/19/13 Copies of Parochial returns, 1965-1978.
103/19/14 Reverend Herring: Extracts of his life
103/19/15 Festival 86, 125th Anniversary of the Founding of the Parish.
Script for slide presentation,
Programme
Registration form
Notice of meeting of Committee.
103/19/16 Photographs of bibles donated to St John's Theological College.
103/19/17 Assorted
Service of Baptism 1984
AGM Agenda 22 February, 2009
Parish Emergency Plan 2006
Friends of St John's Trust Board docs 2006
Admin Circular re. Terrier of Land, 1991
103/20 PROPERTY
[Other related material at A103/13/9, A103/13/12, A103/14/13, A103/14/16 and A103/19/10]
103/20/1 Sale and purchase of vicarages at Moonshine Road and Raukawa Grove.
103/20/1/1 Correspondence July 1994 - April 1998.
Parish correspondence, legal advice, reports, real estate proposals and marketing, sale agreements.
103/20/1/2 Subdivision of Moonshine Road property.
103/21 CONFIRMATION REGISTERS
103/21/1 Confirmation Register 1938-1939 103/21/2 Confirmation Register 1983-1994
103/21/3 Confirmation Register 1894-1907, 1938-1947
103/22 BURIAL REGISTERS
103/22/1 1891-1908
103/22/2 1909-1943
103/22/3 1943-1974
103/22/4 1974-2014
103/23/1 Marriage Register 1881-1908
103/23/2/1 Marriage Register 1912-1917
103/23/2/2 Marriage Register 1917-1928
103/23/2/3 Marriage Register 1928-1939
103/23/2/4 Marriage Register 1863-1879
103/23/2/5 Marriage Register 1909-1912
103/23/2/6 Marriage Register 1939-1945
103/23/2/7 Marriage Register 1945-1950
103/23/2/8 Marriage Register 1950-1955
103/23/2/9 Marriage Register 1955-1988
103/23/2/10 Marriage Register; St Hilda's and St Johns 1952-1970
103/24 BAPTISM REGISTER
103/24/1 1862-1871 (fraglie, handle with care)
103/24/2 1871-1908
103/24/3 1909-1937
103/25 Publication "The parochial District of Upper Hutt, A record of Events in its history" by G.V. Kendrick. Pub 1935
103/25/1 Miscellaneous papers, notes transcribed from diary held in Turnbull collection, paper clippings and letters relating to St Johns parish church and a photo of the vicar G V Kendrick.
103/25/2 Church Wardens book and Register (Loc 13a)
Access & use
Restrictions103/13/15 Spiritual Gifts 1986. Includes 12 completed questionnaires which are restricted on grounds of privacy until 2010.
About
About the original
LocationLoc: 13a; !4a to 14e (formerly19a-4), oversize items = Drawer LOC 0D,103/8/4 = Disc Box, Archivists Office]Accession0302, 0824, 0403, 35ConservationBasic 'dry' preservation work only has been carried out; paper clips and staples, some of which were extremely rusty, have been removed, as have rubber bands. Records have been stored within acid-free folders where appropriate. Large items have been separated, flattened and stored separately.
Several items are fragile and will require repair but it is considered that they may still be used for research as long as they are handled with care.
Custodial historyThe records were transferred by the Vestry Secretary in 1999.
Series 103/22, 103/23, 103/24, came into custody of the archives through John Harrison in 2018
Series 103/23/2 103/21/3 came into custody of the archives through John Harrison in 2021
Series 103/24 came into custody of the archives through John Harrison in 2022
Several items are fragile and will require repair but it is considered that they may still be used for research as long as they are handled with care.
Custodial historyThe records were transferred by the Vestry Secretary in 1999.
Series 103/22, 103/23, 103/24, came into custody of the archives through John Harrison in 2018
Series 103/23/2 103/21/3 came into custody of the archives through John Harrison in 2021
Series 103/24 came into custody of the archives through John Harrison in 2022
St John's Church (Trentham) (A103). Upper Hutt City Library, accessed 08/09/2024, https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/15046