NEW PLACE OF WORSHIP
ON THE DAREBIN CREEK
1841


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[Port Phillip Gazette]

NOTICE

The subscribers to the place of worship on the Darebin Creek, erected on Mr. Maclean's property, close to the River Plenty Road, are informed that it will be open for Divine Service on Christmas Day, at 12 o'clock, noon, and on every Sabbath Day, at the same hour for the future; also on every Wednesday evening at seven o'clock.

Darebin Creek, December 21.

( "Port Phillip Gazette" - Melbourne - 25 December 1841 )

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[Port Phillip Gazette]

CHURCH ON THE DAREBIN - An advertisement in this paper announced some time past the opening of a house on the Darebin rivulet as a place of worship, since which Major Webb, a neighbouring settler, has been in the habit of performing divine service on every Sabbath that his personal attendance was possible. It is satisfactory to reflect that among the populous and wealthy parishes near Melbourne the residents on this rivulet should have been foremost in completing such an object as the attainment, by public subscription, of a place for congregational worship.

The church has been built on Mr. McLean's property, near the crossing place at the estate of S. J. Brown, and is in the vicinity of the properties of Messrs. Cooper, Brown, McLean, Neale Campbell, Milner, Maunsell, Arden, Keith, Serjeantson, and others, who have all assisted in its erection.

( "Port Phillip Gazette" - Melbourne - 2 March 1842 )

( Images: National Library of Australia )

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Major St. Lawrence Webb

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