Baptisms in the Colony of Port Phillip and Melbourne Hospital: 1850-1889

This book has a few start dates as the clergy entered the details when they returned from their trips around the colony. There are various loose pages at the front and within the book but most of this information has also been entered in the book.  1850 - 1883.

",The Bishop…decided…to employ a missionary clergyman, who should itinerate through the bush and carry the ministration of the Word and the Sacrament to those distant parts of the colony where they had hitherto been unknown. For this purpose, the money and the man were both available, the former in response to a Whit Sunday appeal throughout the Diocese and the latter in the person of Mr J. H. Gregory, a young layman from New South Wales who had been ordained for this special mission. Before Mr Gregory entered upon his work successful missionary journey was accomplished by the Rev. S. L. Chase… who had recently arrived from England. Mr Chase left Melbourne accompanied by Mr Palmer as lay assistant, and directed his course along Sydney Road to Wangaratta, turning off at various places "

The book is very difficult to read and a lot of the names are just guesses.

It would be good to have the book scanned but at the moment the resources required are unavailable. 

A few marriage certificates are included. (John King and Mary Anne Peck (?) 1853 ; Edward Saunders and Mary Scott 1853).