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Collection DescriptionThe Parish Collection includes many aspects of parish life:
Marriage registers, marriage certificate butts, licenses to marry, letters of dissolution and copies of certificates.
Parish Council records
Parish Newsletters
Records pertaining to the running of the Sunday School. Teachers' activities are also included.
Bible Class or Youth Group records
Women's Groups - Ladies Guilds, Benevolent Societies, Young Married Women, Craft Groups, etc. (In mid-1964 all women's groups combined under the umbrella of the APW.)
Men's Groups, Sport's Clubs, Harriers, Girls' Clubs and other short-lived groups
Literary Societies
Boys' and Girls' Brigade
Choir or Organ Committee
Parish Temperance Societies - Band of Hope, Women's Temperance Society.
Historical Activities, Papers, and Celebrations including minute books, planning schedules, guest lists, activities, and associated papers, anniversary orders of worship, financial material, historical souvenirs, description and narratives, and ephemera. Plans for church buildings, interior and exterior extensions - both original and copied. Publications that relate to parish activity - pulpit bible, devotional material, worship material, books awarded as prizes. General parish ephemera, including invitations, programmes, tickets, advertising, menus, scrapbooks, communion tokens, communion ware, printing blocks, banners, paintings, table cloths. Choir music and hymnbooks.
Items below are just some of the highlights from this collection - please use the search bar to locate more.
Collection SummaryParish collections provide insight into the lives of local New Zealand communities. Records include Baptism and Marriage Registers, Womens’ organisations, Sports teams, Youth and children’s activities.
Items below are just some of the highlights from this collection - please use the search bar to locate more.

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Parishes. Presbyterian Research Centre, accessed 19/02/2025, https://prc.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/157