Martha Downes was born at Codrington in 1880. She was grand-daughter of the first Presbyterian minister of Clunes. As a child she belonged to the Erskine congregation. She was trained at the Deaconess' Institute and was appointed to the Fitzroy Mission, where the Rev. A.I. Davidson was Superintendent. Miss Downes was placed in charge of the Gore St. branch of the Mission. She started a Sunday morning children's church, a Sunday School, a Sunday evening service, a mothers' meeting, a girls' and boys' club and other activities. She helped raise funds for the Young St. Mission Hall, which was built in 1912. In 1914 Sister Downes retired due to ill health, but returned in 1915 to take charge of the Erskine Mission. Her interest in girls led to the establishment of Erskine Hostel, in a delicensed hotel in Rathdown St. Carlton, where classes, guilds, club meetings and services were held. Martha Downes died on 24 February 1920.Sepia toned postcard format photograph of the Presbyterian Church, Clunes, Victoria. Two ladies and a gentleman stand on the steps of the Church. "Presbyterian Church" on front. Handwritten letter to Martha Downes on reverse.martha downes, sisterhood, presbyterian, clunes, deaconess' institute, fitzroy mission, rev. a.i. davidson, erskine mission, erskine hostel, young street mission hall

James Watkin (1805–86), Pioneer Missionary. James Watkin was born in Manchester in 1805. While still young he felt the call to preach and in 1830 was accepted as a candidate for the Wesleyan Ministry. In the same year he married Hannah Entwistle and they sailed with a missionary party to Tonga. The work of the mission was jeopardised by prolonged and involved struggles between Christian and non-Christian Tongan chiefs; Watkin faced alone the danger of tribal warfare, but the experience left him depressed and exhausted. On his removal with his family to Sydney in September 1837 he prayed for a return home to England. Instead, when John Jones offered a free passage for a missionary appointed to Waikouaiti, where Jones had a whaling station, Watkin was selected for the post and arrived there in May 1840. Here he established the first mission station in the South Island. Watkin found the whaling settlement of Waikouaiti a centre of violence, licentiousness, and drunken depravity. Thoroughly disliking the corrupted Maoris and convinced that they were doomed to extinction, and disgusted by the brutality and vices of his fellow Europeans, Watkin laboured without hope, in the bitterness of exile and with deepening depression and distress. In spite of an abhorrence for his situation he established schools at Waikouaiti and Matanaka, and stationed partly trained Maori teachers at Stewart Island and at Moeraki. He had a natural flair for languages, preached in Maori four months after his arrival, and compiled an elementary reading book to be printed in Ngai Tahu. In November 1840 Watkin was greatly disturbed by Bishop Pompallier's visit to Otago. When, however, this was followed by Anglican intrusion – for Bishop Selwyn visited Otago in January 1844 – Watkin thought of withdrawing his own Maori teachers and abandoning the field. Never reconciled to his position at Waikouaiti, Watkin was relieved by Charles Creed and in June 1844 he sailed for Wellington, leaving 227 church members in Otago. In 1855 Watkin settled in New South Wales, and was president of the National Methodist Conference at Adelaide in 1862. He retired in 1869 and died on 14 May 1886, at Ashfield, New South Wales. 'WATKIN, James', from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/1966/watkin-james (accessed 30 Apr 2018) B & W engraving from a photograph of the Rev. James Watkin.Revd. James Watkin, Australia Engraved by J. Cochran from a Photograph.

Williamine (Minnie) Agnes Greve (1873 - 1945) taught at the Presbyterian Sunday School at Mt. Gambier for many years before moving to Melbourne in 1912 to train as a Deaconess. B & W head and shoulders studio portrait of Deaconess Williamine Agnes Greave. "Deaconess W.A. Greve Leader 1914-1921"

Alec Pederick was born in 1902 and left school at 15 to work on his parents' farm at Wyuna, Kyabrum,Victoria. After receiving a sense of call he trained for the Methodist ministry and was appointed to his first parish at Zeehan, Tasmania in 1927. He was called to serve with the Methodist Overseas Mission in New Britain and New Ireland in 1929. He married Dorothy Clarke just before he left. After four years in PNG he returned through ill-health to Victoria. He was appointed to the Beaufort Circuit in 1933 and then in 1936 to the Methodist Home Missions Department. He was called up as an Army chaplain in 1942 and sent on active service in Papua New Guinea. He was discharged in 1944 and returned to the Home Missions Department. He was appointed acting General Superintendent in 1944 and then General Superintendent in 1946, a position he held until 1962. He also served as Director of the Federal Methodist Inland Mission for a time. He died in 1972.Set of 8 photos (F68-3 has two additional copies) of Rev. Alec W. Pederick L. Th. All six photographs were taken at approximately the same age - late middle age - while still General Superintendent of the Victorian Home Missions department. Mostly bald, bespectacled man wearing glasses and clerical collar and stock and dark suit. All B&W. F68-1 is a cutting from The Spectator. F68-2 shows Pederick looking directly at the camera, unsmiling. F68-3 shows Pederick smiling looking to the right of the camera. F68-4 and F68-5 were taken as he was seated holding a large, open folder of papers, looking at the folder in -4 and to the right of the camera in -5. F 68-6 shows Pederick standing outside in a garden or "the bush" dressed in clerical garb with an overcoat. He is holding what looks like a camera and he is looking away from the camera.All the photos except F68-6 have an identification by name (Rev. A. W. Pederick" and all bar F68-6 have also identified him as General Superintendent and F68-3-5 identify him as General Superintendent Methodist Home Missions. F68-3 has "President of Conference 1955" typed on the back in red ink.pederick, a. w., zeehan, methodist overseas mission, methodist inland mission, beaufort, army chaplain, new britain, new ireland

Forest School Creswick, School Certificate number one to William H TrainorSchool Certificate

A set of mathematical instruments used in geometry and other more complicated drawing processes.A set of mathematical instruments in a tin. The tin has a blue lid with red and white lettering and the drawing of an express train. This is a Helix set of mathematical instruments comprising a compass, divider, boxwood ruler, set squares, protractor, eraser, pencil and blotter used in schools.education department, teaching, equipment, george evans collection

Miss Elaine Orr, Director of Nursing Royal Children's Hospital, guest speaker at Queen's Church of England Girl's School Open Day. 1970s. Vote of thanks was given by Cr Jessie Scott, who said it gave her special pleasure to be able to propose a vote of thanks to Miss Orr because when she worked in Ballarat Miss Orr was one of a team who saved Cr Scott's daughter when she was in the Ballarat Base Hospital. **The daughter referred to is Janet Dale who trained at the Ballarat Base Hospital July 1951 to Jan 1955 and later became a City of Ballarat Councillor. Miss Elaine Orr also trained at the Ballarat Base Hospital, June 1946 to July 1949. Hard Copy - City of Ballarat Mayor's Report, 1989.chapman, dale, scott, mayor, councillor, ballarat, 1989, past trainee,, orr, 1970, children's hospital, archibald, courier

Hard Copiesreunion, tinker, cunningham, 1952, parkinson, east, matthews, callaghan, blackie, wilkie, ahern, mclean, wilkes, tantau, fitzpatrick, holloway, jasper, gough

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Hard Copyfream, collection, school, july, 1963, 63c, 1st pros, finals, dinner, newspaper

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Newspapercourier, 1966, 38th, annual, reunion, finals, dinner, school, jan, 1964, newspaper

Produced for launch at 83rd Annual Reunion of the Ballarat Base Hospital Trained Nurses LeagueNewspapercourier, 2011, bbh trained nurses league, dvd, trina, jones, greaves, newspaper, greaves, newspaper, 1968, 68a

February 1973 School - PTS, 1st Pros Dinner & GraduationDigital Copykinnersly, duggan, 1973, 1976, 73a, preliminary, pts, 1st pros, graduation, jane duggan

Gala Day Float - Preliminary School Nurses. On float Srs Ruth Draffin, Williams, Edna Ritchie, Sheila Prendergast (foreground right). Nrs Dorothy Coad & Betty Longden on float.float, gala day, draffin, williams, ritchie, prendergast, coad, longden, ballarat, hospital, pts, 1940s

Back left to right - Rosemary Whitehead (Educator), Christine Watts nee Manning, Lorraine Broad, Margaret Monagle nee Nolan. Front left to right - Margot Cunningham nee Dean, Sue Wilson, Ellen Conroy, Julie Pittard nee Smith.Digital Photomidwifery, 1979, school, bbh, midwifery, 1978, school, bbh, whitehead, manning, broad, nolan, dean,wilson, conroy, smith